Matthew Le Merle

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473 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 5 Jul

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Finding Peak with Ryan Hanley · The Autonomous Digital Economy Is Here · 5 Jul 2026 podcast

Secondly, digital finance, including blockchain-enabled digital infrastructure.

And thirdly, the, if you will, the upgrading of the internet players and, you know, sort of like

Ink to me was destroyed by Google.

MySpace was destroyed by Facebook.

I don't think we should presume that today's internet companies won't have new competitors, but they'll be autonomous digital players, not only internet players, if you see what I'm saying.

Yes, fantastic Ryan.

So, so the answer is all of, but before, you know, the short answer, but before I get there, I mean, many of the tasks that we do today

that are part of our economy or the businesses that are listening in.

Those tasks are complex tasks, and the human form factor is not necessarily engineered to be really good at those tasks.

And I think you have to start there.

In your business, you probably have human beings doing things that they are not actually very good at doing.

A great example would be to abstract vast amounts of financial data

crunch it in real time and come up with financials and accounts and, and so on.

You know, it's all like our brains are pretty good, but that actually isn't something many of us are really designed for.

And in fact, as we all know, the average American child is not very good at mental mathematics.

Even if you ask them something simple, like what's, you know, eight times 11, which is shouldn't be too difficult.

By the time you ask them to look at a business in real time and crunch all the data of the P&L for this month and build a P&L and a balance sheet, it's not something most of us can do in our heads.

And what I just said is obvious, right?

So, you know, we instrumented that a long time ago, and we created abacuses, and then calculators, and then Visicalc, and Lotus 1, 2, 3, and spreadsheets.

And by now...

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