Kanye West

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Lex Fridman Podcast · #332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview · 24 Oct 2022 podcast

I said, do we have black people?

He said, yes.

I said, how many?

He said, two.

So we have like 60 full-time employees, like 40 half-time and part-time.

And I took as a responsibility, let's take a step back from us being one species and say, hey, you're Jewish, I'm black, right?

Why step back?

For this example, for the sake of this example.

And I said, wow, I'm sure I can hire more than two black engineers.

And what happens is because there are so many businessmen that just so happen to be Jewish that it's good business, right, just to monopolize.

That's what people are looking.

Everybody wants to be Elon, right?

So the— I disagree with that.

Okay, but let me finish this point.

I'm going to let you finish.

A lot of businessmen want to be as successful as Elon and as popular as Elon.

A lot.

I could just word it like that, which I hate the term a lot, actually.

I want to be more specific, but I haven't done the math on it.

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