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Kanye West

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#332 โ€“ Kanye โ€˜Yeโ€™ West Interview

Have you talked?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#332 โ€“ Kanye โ€˜Yeโ€™ West Interview

Can you share if you've talked?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#332 โ€“ Kanye โ€˜Yeโ€™ West Interview

Yes, I talked to Dimna.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#332 โ€“ Kanye โ€˜Yeโ€™ West Interview

This is like, we're kindred spirits.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#332 โ€“ Kanye โ€˜Yeโ€™ West Interview

None of this can keep us away from each other.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#332 โ€“ Kanye โ€˜Yeโ€™ West Interview

I brought Dimna to Gap yesterday.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#332 โ€“ Kanye โ€˜Yeโ€™ West Interview

to be able to bring the best product in the world.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#332 โ€“ Kanye โ€˜Yeโ€™ West Interview

At that time, I wanted to go under $100.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#332 โ€“ Kanye โ€˜Yeโ€™ West Interview

Now I'm like, okay, we're going to go $20 a product.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#332 โ€“ Kanye โ€˜Yeโ€™ West Interview

I brought Demna in to engineer.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#332 โ€“ Kanye โ€˜Yeโ€™ West Interview

That's why I said engineered by Balenciaga, Yeezy Gap engineered by Balenciaga, to engineer the best product for the people.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#332 โ€“ Kanye โ€˜Yeโ€™ West Interview

The people that

Lex Fridman Podcast
#332 โ€“ Kanye โ€˜Yeโ€™ West Interview

that they say are at the bottom of the Maslow hierarchy of need chart.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#332 โ€“ Kanye โ€˜Yeโ€™ West Interview

They're at the bottom of the pyramid, right?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#332 โ€“ Kanye โ€˜Yeโ€™ West Interview

So Gap didn't want that.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#332 โ€“ Kanye โ€˜Yeโ€™ West Interview

Balenciaga didn't want that.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#332 โ€“ Kanye โ€˜Yeโ€™ West Interview

Our agendas were not aligned.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#332 โ€“ Kanye โ€˜Yeโ€™ West Interview

I was brought in

Lex Fridman Podcast
#332 โ€“ Kanye โ€˜Yeโ€™ West Interview

to the gap for political reasons and influence, like a Virgil, like a George Floyd.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#332 โ€“ Kanye โ€˜Yeโ€™ West Interview

When popular celebrities are brought into Fortune 500 companies, it's not to raise the stock.