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Demis Hassabis

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My First Million
Story Of The Most Important Founder You've Never Heard Of

Amongst all humans?

My First Million
Story Of The Most Important Founder You've Never Heard Of

If you had to create a stereotype for a good movie character who's like, you know, a James Bond villain or a mega genius, this is how they all start.

My First Million
Story Of The Most Important Founder You've Never Heard Of

The stories all start the same way.

My First Million
Story Of The Most Important Founder You've Never Heard Of

There's no name for the job.

My First Million
Story Of The Most Important Founder You've Never Heard Of

And for context, by the way, he's 50 years old now.

My First Million
Story Of The Most Important Founder You've Never Heard Of

He's 49.

My First Million
Story Of The Most Important Founder You've Never Heard Of

So we're talking late 80s.

My First Million
Story Of The Most Important Founder You've Never Heard Of

I thought you were going to say that he partied hard and hooked up with tons of girls.

My First Million
Story Of The Most Important Founder You've Never Heard Of

This guy's perfect then.

My First Million
Story Of The Most Important Founder You've Never Heard Of

I think that people talk about this, but I don't think it talks about enough.

My First Million
Story Of The Most Important Founder You've Never Heard Of

where I think Tim Dillon's a comedian, where he was like, everyone thinks the president of the United States is most powerful, but there's one person who's never around, you can't see him, but he truly runs everything, and that's Peter Thiel.

My First Million
Story Of The Most Important Founder You've Never Heard Of

And he was saying that at Trump's inauguration, it was like J.D.

My First Million
Story Of The Most Important Founder You've Never Heard Of

Vance, who's a Thiel guy, was all the CEOs, Thiel guy, Thiel guy, Zuck, Thiel guy.

My First Million
Story Of The Most Important Founder You've Never Heard Of

And it was like, Peter Thiel is the guy.

My First Million
Story Of The Most Important Founder You've Never Heard Of

And then I recently read a whole bunch of old quotes from him.

My First Million
Story Of The Most Important Founder You've Never Heard Of

And it's just like everything he says is timeless and has been true so often.

My First Million
Story Of The Most Important Founder You've Never Heard Of

He's like a city, dude.

My First Million
Story Of The Most Important Founder You've Never Heard Of

So a lot of times it starts with, was it Plato or Socrates, where it like, well, Socrates taught Plato, Plato taught Alexander the Great, and also Aristotle.

My First Million
Story Of The Most Important Founder You've Never Heard Of

And it's sort of like there's like this one person that's like the root.

My First Million
Story Of The Most Important Founder You've Never Heard Of

So when you say build, is there actual physical building as well?