Patrick Collison
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 3 Aug
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Marc Andreessen also talks about a version of this.
I thought that a bunch of the opportunities in startups and in Silicon Valley and so forth were ephemeral and fleeting.
And if we didn't build it then, it wouldn't be possible to do it in three or four years.
And maybe all the opportunities will be gone.
In hindsight, I think that that was a poor intuition.
It's been pretty robustly and reliably the case over many decades that Silicon Valley has a surfeit of opportunities.
Yeah, I think it was mainly those two things.
I think humanity has always had an affinity for these millenarian models of how everything will soon come to an end and be this sort of
permanent transformation of society and so forth.
Actually, there's a great book, The Winged Gospel.
People thought that after the invention of aviation, that it was just like civilization was just entering, and humanity as a species were entering a new era, and nothing is going to be the same.
I mean, obviously, aviation was a pretty big deal, but I don't think it was quite the sociological rewriting that some of the
excitable proponents at the time imagined.
So it's hard to predict anything, especially in the future.
But I would take the under on this being the last couple of years to create a company.
It was kind of funny.
So something we learned from YC was the importance of focusing on very concrete, easy-to-explain customer problems.
It's very easy to hallucinate or to imagine some customer problem that's not actually something viscerally felt by a person who would pay money.
And so over the course of, in part, working on Automatic together, we have encountered this issue of it being really annoying to deal with
movement of money or payments or whatever on the internet.
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