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David Friedberg

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All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
IPOs and SPACs are Back, Mag 7 Showdown, Zuck on Tilt, Apple's Fumble, GENIUS Act passes Senate

Here it is.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
IPOs and SPACs are Back, Mag 7 Showdown, Zuck on Tilt, Apple's Fumble, GENIUS Act passes Senate

I suggest everybody read it.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
IPOs and SPACs are Back, Mag 7 Showdown, Zuck on Tilt, Apple's Fumble, GENIUS Act passes Senate

When you send a missive like this to your employees, you're trying to communicate something to them and to the public market.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
IPOs and SPACs are Back, Mag 7 Showdown, Zuck on Tilt, Apple's Fumble, GENIUS Act passes Senate

So he published it on his website.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
IPOs and SPACs are Back, Mag 7 Showdown, Zuck on Tilt, Apple's Fumble, GENIUS Act passes Senate

He talks about dozens of AI projects, AI tools for advertisers, obviously, GenII for sellers, their product detail page.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
IPOs and SPACs are Back, Mag 7 Showdown, Zuck on Tilt, Apple's Fumble, GENIUS Act passes Senate

He's talking about Alexa coming back with a brand new version, shopping assistance, everything.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
IPOs and SPACs are Back, Mag 7 Showdown, Zuck on Tilt, Apple's Fumble, GENIUS Act passes Senate

But then he started talking about the workforce size.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
IPOs and SPACs are Back, Mag 7 Showdown, Zuck on Tilt, Apple's Fumble, GENIUS Act passes Senate

He says in this manifesto, in the next few years, we expect this will reduce our total corporate workforce as we get efficiency gains from using AI extensively across the company.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
IPOs and SPACs are Back, Mag 7 Showdown, Zuck on Tilt, Apple's Fumble, GENIUS Act passes Senate

So my question to you, Thomas, is when you hear public CEOs talking about lowering the number of employees while they're growing 10%, 20% per year,

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
IPOs and SPACs are Back, Mag 7 Showdown, Zuck on Tilt, Apple's Fumble, GENIUS Act passes Senate

This is obviously awesome for earnings, the share price, but there's going to be massive job displacement.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
IPOs and SPACs are Back, Mag 7 Showdown, Zuck on Tilt, Apple's Fumble, GENIUS Act passes Senate

Any thoughts on the job displacement, job replacement, and society navigating that?

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
IPOs and SPACs are Back, Mag 7 Showdown, Zuck on Tilt, Apple's Fumble, GENIUS Act passes Senate

And just as well, Andy Jassy specifically, and what you think of Amazon as a business and them being a player in AI and AI being a player in their business?

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
IPOs and SPACs are Back, Mag 7 Showdown, Zuck on Tilt, Apple's Fumble, GENIUS Act passes Senate

Chamath, any thoughts on Amazon?

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
IPOs and SPACs are Back, Mag 7 Showdown, Zuck on Tilt, Apple's Fumble, GENIUS Act passes Senate

They didn't come up, but obviously AWS crushing it, and they're a major player, and they have their own silicon they're making.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
IPOs and SPACs are Back, Mag 7 Showdown, Zuck on Tilt, Apple's Fumble, GENIUS Act passes Senate

You mentioned that being an important part of the stack.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
IPOs and SPACs are Back, Mag 7 Showdown, Zuck on Tilt, Apple's Fumble, GENIUS Act passes Senate

And then you have Optimus and robots figure that are going to be in their factories.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
IPOs and SPACs are Back, Mag 7 Showdown, Zuck on Tilt, Apple's Fumble, GENIUS Act passes Senate

That's a lot of jobs, delivery robots.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
IPOs and SPACs are Back, Mag 7 Showdown, Zuck on Tilt, Apple's Fumble, GENIUS Act passes Senate

They're doing drones like Zipline.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
IPOs and SPACs are Back, Mag 7 Showdown, Zuck on Tilt, Apple's Fumble, GENIUS Act passes Senate

They have their own version of it, obviously, and they're doing Zoox.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
IPOs and SPACs are Back, Mag 7 Showdown, Zuck on Tilt, Apple's Fumble, GENIUS Act passes Senate

So if you just look at their behavior and you look at their investments, they're massively, massively investing in robotics, robotics,