John Collison
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first heard Jun 2025
last heard 5 Feb
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People were excited about that in the 80s.
And like only now, I don't know if you use Super Whisper um or anything like that, but it's really, it's finally really good.
But like it wasn't good three years ago, you know, uh 40 years after division.
Yeah,
Okay, so I wanna ask you about this, because I I've thought a lot about this and you're the perfect person to ask, which is
Microsoft
So
The internet future that was coming in the 90s.
And in particular, the famous Bill Gates Internet Tidal Wave memo said: the internet is the one big thing Microsoft needs to focus on.
It wasn't like we're not thinking about the internet.
It wasn't that it was priority number seven of 15.
It was like, hey guys, listen up.
The only thing Microsoft should be thinking about is the internet.
But the the vision for the internet at the time was this information superhighway, which was subtly different from the internet, because the thinking was, and it was very sensible thinking, no one has internet to the computer in their home.
Like a lot of people don't have a computer in their home.
So what people do have is a TV, and what they have is cable, which is a high bandwidth connection.
And so we're going to do these set-top boxes on the TV, and that is how people will use the internet.
Paying a huge amount of attention to this coming wave, pretty sensible, well thought-out solution, and yet not the right approach.
And so I obviously bring that up in the context of the giant AI, like what should one take away from that?
And then we pivoted.
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