Jonathan Palmer

I think you're absolutely right there.

There's always this knee-jerk reaction that the world is going to change, you know, at the drop of a dime.

And it never really truly comes to pass like that.

I mean, maybe the pandemic is the, you know, the edge case where things do change overnight, but that's unlikely to happen.

in the next 12 months, 18 months.

You know, one of the things I wanted to ask you about, though, is the framework for your investments.

How has that changed maybe today around AI versus how you looked at the digital world 10 years ago?

Has that framework changed at all?

Well, that's a good move towards, you know, what made you decide to write the book and why now?

And, you know, who's it really geared toward?

Because I was reading it and I was like, well, this would be great for an investor.

It'd be great for a founder, an operator.

Who did you write the book for?

And, you know, why now?

Well, I definitely did.

There's a couple of the footnotes.

I went back and looked up some of the data and studies that you had.

So I'm very appreciative for you writing it.

You know, you've been a professor for more than 10 years at Columbia.

What does the course cover and have there been any success stories from your students coming out and starting companies?