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And I didn't invent this.
I think it was Maples, Mike Maples, I think.
I don't remember exactly.
But basically, the idea is that in order for a lot of big breakthrough ideas to truly happen, not like small businesses that make tens of millions of dollars, but like culture-changing companies, you basically have to have inflections.
And so there's a handful of inflections that matter.
There could be regulatory inflections.
So during COVID, BetterHelp and all these telemedicine things existed because we changed the rules on who doctors can serve.
It could be...
cultural inflection.
So like the Me Too movement, that changed a bunch of stuff.
Or it could be, why does Uber exist?
Well, there was a technology inflection.
Everyone now had a cell phone that had GPS on their phone.
Therefore, they could call an Uber wherever they were.
And there's about five or six different categories of inflections.
And you have to spot the inflections to know what's actually worth going after, because you need an inflection in order for a culture-changing company to exist.
Is he the CEO of DeepMind as well?
Yeah.
Wow.
The H1 on isomorphiclabs.com, the headline is Solve All Disease.