Matthew Prince

There's a guy...

A guy who makes 40 million euros a year just writing songs for unfulfilled Spotify queries.

And he's not alone.

He's like the top compensated guy.

But there's a whole bunch of people that are making millions of dollars a year just writing songs for things that people search for.

Are they good songs?

I mean, people are listening to me.

They don't get paid if they don't get listened to.

Hey, art is subjective, David.

You don't get to decide.

But I also think that what's – I actually think there's something kind of beautiful about that because like if you think about it, when someone searches for a song, it's like they're trying to summon an emotion.

Right.

And if they don't find it, then they don't find it.

And we might not know what those emotions are, but this is a way of actually surfacing that.

And you can think about a model in the future where the AI companies will say, hey, listen, we didn't find such a great, you know,

like information about what the, you know, the carrying capacity of an unladen swallow is.

So if you go out there and like do research on that, we're going to be happy to pay you for that, that, that information.

And then we can figure out, we'll incorporate it into the system.

And, you know, the way I think about it is, you know, we've never until now had a mathematical model of the sum total of human knowledge.

We kind of do now.