John Collison
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first heard Jun 2025
last heard 5 Feb
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Part of the reason this is an evergreen pitch is because companies don't actually have all their data at their fingertips.
Companies do not eat their data.
infrastructure vegetables and you know the pitch to executives is always you can go answer your questions yourself at the touch of a button as opposed to sending a request to an analyst who goes and does an investigation for you.
Will we finally this time eat our data plumbing?
You can push back on the premise, but that's my question.
No,
Yeah.
A lot of compute power.
Dwarkesh uh talks about this really smart remote employee who started five minutes ago, getting at the point that the mar models can be arbitrarily smart and they can do RAG and they can have access to everything in your enterprise.
But it's not quite the same as the model actually knowing something as a model.
And so the models, unless you train custom models inside your company, cannot actually get smarter at what it is that you do and
You know, the thousandth query is not any smarter than the first.
Where do you think that goes?
I think there are two things there.
Yes, yes.
I have a million more AI questions, but I wanna ask you some questions about your um way of working.
So
What does your day-to-day look like?
And in particular, how are you managing by walking around what virtual corridors are you wandering to just get a sense for what's going on on Microsoft?
What are your customer engagements actually look like just for a normal day, not earnings or not a board meeting or something?
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