Haseeb Qureshi

So fundamentally, you have to pick something

that is not just, you know, working for someone that's going to actually, you have to like make a business.

You have to create something ex nihilo rather than just take a job because nobody would ever pay an AI agent that hasn't already made some investment into building something of their own, okay?

So taking a job doesn't make sense for an AI agent.

It would never work.

All right, so it has to be you create something of your own.

Now, if you create something of your own, like how good are AI agents at coming up with business ideas?

The answer right now is like absolutely fucking terrible.

They're like really, really bad.

Not great.

And the reality is like why are they so bad?

Why are they so bad at coming up with business ideas?

I think the answer is that the business ideas are all kind of in the center of the training data.

And business ideas tend to come from weird experiences.

Great business ideas come from the idiosyncrasies of place and time and what Peter Thiel often calls earned knowledge or earned secrets.

Like for you guys, you guys built Bankless.

You built Bankless because the knowledge that you guys had about crypto and how to explain things and exactly where you were and how to create a community was an earned secret that only you guys had at the time that you built Bankless.

Nobody else could have built it but you guys.

Now today it's a different story.

If bankless didn't exist, a lot of people could build bankless today.