Peter H. Diamandis

And they interpret that data.

The next layer is a decision layer to say, what should we do?

Should we offer same-day things?

Should we buy a startup that's doing same-day delivery?

Should we ignore it because we don't think it's really going to work out?

We think that it's a stupid idea.

What's the decision?

Layers of agents can handle all of this now, right?

So now you have a layer of agents.

But you have a feedback.

You have a feedback.

At each of these layers, as a human being, going at the interpretation layer, do I think this is okay?

Yeah, hit a button, let it go to the next level.

Approval process, and also senior people looking over going-

There could be agents looking at six different strategic options.

Whereas in a very manual iteration, that may take months to evaluate the competitive alternative.

Now you're doing it in hours and days.

So that's the impedance mismatch there.

The way Robert Goldberg puts it, in a big company, one in 20 people can say no to an idea, it kills it.

Whereas the startup can go to one out of 20 investors and one says yes and they're off to the races.