Dave Blundin

That's the way entrepreneurship works fundamentally, is you declare a target and you evangelize the target and then you attract the talent and the capital necessary to hit the target.

If you choose your targets wisely, they're achievable targets.

If you choose them poorly, you're a bad entrepreneur.

And it's just that simple.

But if you don't declare the target,

Boston is famous for this, actually, being very conservative and not even announcing something to the world until it's proven eight ways till Tuesday.

It doesn't work.

It is working less well over time because exponential change is on this accelerating rate and so much more is possible.

It's really interesting to think how different China is from the United States and how many other ways to govern there could be that we haven't explored.

The variety is just mind-boggling because China is 85% optimistic about AI.

The U.S.

even in particular is 25%, I think, optimistic.

majority pessimistic.

In China, they're also totally comfortable with being spied on constantly by the government.

Cameras everywhere.

And over here, we just don't admit it.

We don't admit it, but we also, we don't like it.

And we may, whether or not we admit it, it's happening, but we fundamentally, at our core, keep the fact that it's happening.

And China, people are dropping out of the workforce at an insane rate.

It's a real crisis.