Nikesh Arora
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12 recordings
8 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 6 Aug
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Whatever the direction be.
And as you know, if there's no expert, then a group of smart people do better than an expert.
I don't think there's an expert for future enterprise design yet in terms of here's the blueprint.
Like you said, as a VC, you're saying, holy shit, where's the value going to accrue?
Is it going to be in models?
Is it going to be in the application layer?
Trust me, we have to have a point of view on that stuff and what's going to emerge in the future before I can start really transforming my company.
Yeah, look, I discovered this in 2004 when I was in Europe.
I ran Google Europe.
I used to go around and meet CEOs.
You know, there was this fad where CEOs would hire this 24-year-old Sherpa.
They were called the web Sherpas or internet Sherpas, right?
It's like chief internet officer.
Remember those companies had chief internet officers at one point in time.
You're eight, you don't remember.
Well, the Jews, we've seen this movie before.
Sometimes it's fine to have seen this movie before.
And the task of the chief internet officer was to make sure the organization was ready for the internet because I'm too busy in my traditional business and I don't know who Amazon is, I don't know who Google is, so this wonderful 24-year-old who understands this stuff is going to help be my savior.
And then CEOs would wash their hands of all the internet because they have this wonderful team of people who would be frustrated because they can't get anything done because nobody's giving them attention.
The risk of that happening is true with AI as well.
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