David Baszucki

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410 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Nov 2025 last heard 16 Jul

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TBPN · OpenAI's "Backstop," The Benefits of Bubbles, Elon's New Comp Package | Bret Taylor, Dave Baszucki, Vlad Tenev, Uri Marchand, Alex Israel, Paul Erlanger, Nilam Ganenthiran · 6 Nov 2025 podcast

It's really serious.

Uh we have a lot of PhDs.

Um we have great econ brains.

Uh a lot of times kids will say, Hey, why can't you just give me a trillion robucks?

And it's a great opportunity to tell kids that if we give you a trillion roebux, the average roebuck will be worth about a a billionth of what it used to be worth.

Yep.

So we we we actually know about

Are you the drone?

Are you the

Well, imagine I'm a young kid.

Why can't you just make a a trillion roebux?

And and so there's a lot of learning there that the value of the ecosystem doesn't change when you print more currency.

The currency's just worth less.

So we're very careful with the value of our currency.

We um we've done something really right, I think, from the start.

And there's a real temptation to do

uh nonlinear functions, accelerators.

Um if a dev gets really big, should we pay them, you know, more per hour, per minute, per robuck than others?

Per minute

We've really stayed away from all those nonlinear systems.

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