Jay Powell
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227 appearances
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4 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 30 Apr
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So we're talking about maybe two or three different pieces here, Freebird. Which one do you think is super interesting than this $3,000 sort of GPU for your desktop that you attach to your computer? You get to play with things locally. Do you think that's promising? Where would that go, if you have to guess?
Explain to the audience, Freeberg, why having the computer at the edge is beneficial for those folks who might not know.
You don't have it losing your phone connection and then not knowing what to do.
Mac Mini 4, yeah.
I just can't run an operating system in the traditional sense. Sam, when we look at startups, I remember when you and I started investing, two of the driving forces was free storage, free bandwidth, and cloud computing. It drove a lot of ability to get a product to market very quickly, effectively, etc. What impact will AI have on all these startups that are being...
So picking the winner is going to be hard to figure out.
Well, when we were picking famously Uber, you had to pick between sidecar, Lyft and Uber. There were three people doing it and it was pretty clear who was the most qualified amongst those three. Now, to your point, if you want to be involved in tax, plus AI or legal plus AI, you might be looking at 50 companies, 100. And it was tradition in Silicon Valley to not bet on competitors.
There were some notable exceptions. When you run an accelerator, like I do, Techstars or Y Combinator, you aren't bound by that because 50% of the companies pivot almost by design. So I think you just have to, I think, precede Because people pivot, you just have to tell people, listen, we have a lot of pivoting going on. People are going to run into each other.
I can't just bet on one thing in a space. I think that's a reasonable compromise. If all the founders are going to keep pivoting to each other's businesses, how can the investors even keep track of that? It's like being traffic control of 10 airports at once. It's just not feasible.
Yeah. In fact, Chamath has made a big bet there with his time, with his software startup that he's created. All right, let's end on the United States of America growing from 50 to 60 or 70 states. Trump has been rattling off some ideas. Around this, Chamath, what's your take on it? I know we've got to get wrapped up here, so we'll just do a quick lightning round on it.
Having a capable business executive thinking about the future of business and shipping and logistics, pretty big win. And I just love the idea, Cyan.
It's pretty smart. Any thoughts on expanding the United States to a couple more territories and states? I love it. I would love to have 60 states in our lifetime. I mean, let's pick one in the Caribbean. Let's pick one in Europe. I think we should have an open invitation.
Freeberg, what do you think about opt-in imperialism and this incredible concept of expanding our territories in the 21st century?
No, I have not. No.
I think he has a really interesting explanation. Because we had Gavin explain it last time. Say, welcome to Conspiracy Corner.
They floated the rocks up, yes. It's brilliant.
But you know what? Chamath and I were talking about this too. Because when you remove all that crust, because we actually were talking. We just didn't use the guy in Graham's name. It's just like Uranus. When you break away all that crust, what did they find in Uranus, Friedberg?
You got it. You landed the joke. It's great.
Oh, we finally got there, folks. This has been another amazing episode of the All In Podcast. It's different. Yeah, I can't say anything other than, Cyan, you were great for a first time out. You got to the conspiracies. You rocked it. You got to interject more because it's a vibrant panel. But for a first time out, very solid debut.
I think it's mutants. I'm going with the X-Men theory. I think there were mutant human beings who had the ability with superpowers to build them.
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