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Guillaume Verdon

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1026 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

Lex Fridman Podcast
#407 โ€“ Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI

a vector to spread the message. And yes, we've been using techniques that are optimal for today's algorithmically amplified information landscapes. But I think we're reaching the point of scale where we can have serious debates and serious conversations. And that's why we're considering doing a bunch of debates and having more serious long-form discussions. Because I don't think that...

Lex Fridman Podcast
#407 โ€“ Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI

the timeline is optimal for very serious, thoughtful discussions. You get rewarded for polarization. Even though we started a movement that is literally trying to polarize the tech ecosystem at the end of the day so that we can have a conversation and find an optimum together.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#407 โ€“ Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI

the timeline is optimal for very serious, thoughtful discussions. You get rewarded for polarization. Even though we started a movement that is literally trying to polarize the tech ecosystem at the end of the day so that we can have a conversation and find an optimum together.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#407 โ€“ Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI

the timeline is optimal for very serious, thoughtful discussions. You get rewarded for polarization. Even though we started a movement that is literally trying to polarize the tech ecosystem at the end of the day so that we can have a conversation and find an optimum together.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#407 โ€“ Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI

Yeah, I mean, I think Jeff is really great. I mean, he's built one of the most... epic companies of all time. He's leveraged the techno capital machine and techno capital acceleration to give us what we wanted. We want quick delivery, very convenient at home, low prices.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#407 โ€“ Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI

Yeah, I mean, I think Jeff is really great. I mean, he's built one of the most... epic companies of all time. He's leveraged the techno capital machine and techno capital acceleration to give us what we wanted. We want quick delivery, very convenient at home, low prices.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#407 โ€“ Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI

Yeah, I mean, I think Jeff is really great. I mean, he's built one of the most... epic companies of all time. He's leveraged the techno capital machine and techno capital acceleration to give us what we wanted. We want quick delivery, very convenient at home, low prices.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#407 โ€“ Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI

He understood how the machine worked and how to harness it, like running the company, not trying to take profits too early, putting it back, letting the system compound and keep improving. And arguably, I think Amazon's invested some of the most amount of capital in robotics out there.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#407 โ€“ Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI

He understood how the machine worked and how to harness it, like running the company, not trying to take profits too early, putting it back, letting the system compound and keep improving. And arguably, I think Amazon's invested some of the most amount of capital in robotics out there.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#407 โ€“ Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI

He understood how the machine worked and how to harness it, like running the company, not trying to take profits too early, putting it back, letting the system compound and keep improving. And arguably, I think Amazon's invested some of the most amount of capital in robotics out there.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#407 โ€“ Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI

And certainly, with the birth of AWS, kind of enabled the sort of tech boom we've seen today that has paid the salaries of, I guess, myself and all of our friends to some extent. And so I think we can all be grateful to Jeff and He's one of the great entrepreneurs out there, one of the best of all time, unarguably.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#407 โ€“ Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI

And certainly, with the birth of AWS, kind of enabled the sort of tech boom we've seen today that has paid the salaries of, I guess, myself and all of our friends to some extent. And so I think we can all be grateful to Jeff and He's one of the great entrepreneurs out there, one of the best of all time, unarguably.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#407 โ€“ Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI

And certainly, with the birth of AWS, kind of enabled the sort of tech boom we've seen today that has paid the salaries of, I guess, myself and all of our friends to some extent. And so I think we can all be grateful to Jeff and He's one of the great entrepreneurs out there, one of the best of all time, unarguably.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#407 โ€“ Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI

Yeah. I think that companies, they tend to optimize quarter over quarter, maybe a few years out. But individuals that want to leave a legacy can think on a multi-decade or multi-century timescale. And so the fact that some individuals are such good capital allocators that they unlock the ability to allocate capitals to goals that take us much further or are much further looking.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#407 โ€“ Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI

Yeah. I think that companies, they tend to optimize quarter over quarter, maybe a few years out. But individuals that want to leave a legacy can think on a multi-decade or multi-century timescale. And so the fact that some individuals are such good capital allocators that they unlock the ability to allocate capitals to goals that take us much further or are much further looking.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#407 โ€“ Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI

Yeah. I think that companies, they tend to optimize quarter over quarter, maybe a few years out. But individuals that want to leave a legacy can think on a multi-decade or multi-century timescale. And so the fact that some individuals are such good capital allocators that they unlock the ability to allocate capitals to goals that take us much further or are much further looking.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#407 โ€“ Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI

You know, Elon's doing this with SpaceX, putting all this capital towards getting us to Mars. Jeff is trying to build Blue Origin, and I think he wants to build O'Neill cylinders and get industry off planet, which I think is brilliant. I think, you know, Just overall, I'm for billionaires.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#407 โ€“ Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI

You know, Elon's doing this with SpaceX, putting all this capital towards getting us to Mars. Jeff is trying to build Blue Origin, and I think he wants to build O'Neill cylinders and get industry off planet, which I think is brilliant. I think, you know, Just overall, I'm for billionaires.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#407 โ€“ Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI

You know, Elon's doing this with SpaceX, putting all this capital towards getting us to Mars. Jeff is trying to build Blue Origin, and I think he wants to build O'Neill cylinders and get industry off planet, which I think is brilliant. I think, you know, Just overall, I'm for billionaires.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#407 โ€“ Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI

I know this is a controversial statement sometimes, but I think that in a sense, it's kind of a proof of stake voting, right? If you've allocated capital efficiently, you unlock more capital to allocate just because clearly you know how to allocate capital more efficiently, which is in contrast to politicians that get elected