Reid Hoffman

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This is Gavin Newsom · And, This Is Why Reid Hoffman Doesn’t Fear Artificial Intelligence · 19 Jun 2026 podcast

Then he goes, Oh shit, I should have my own.

So he gets X AI started and in a desperate bid for market share, uh,

He's like, oh yeah, that's fine if we create a whole bunch of pornographic images, some of which are children.

Journalists have been reporting on this, et cetera.

And that's because it's more important that I have this AI thing than this damage that we're doing to children and all the rest of this stuff.

It's like, it's crazy.

By the way, just accelerating and fast forwarding, I mean, SpaceX is a pretty remarkable company on the basis of the facts and evidence, Starlink in particular, from a sort of cash flow perspective and ROI perspective.

And a goodness for society perspective.

Yeah, and by the way, I've seen that firsthand in the middle of the Amazon, which actually really inspired and surprised me to be that, in fact, universally awkwardly connected in the middle of the rainforest, even more so than, frankly, out here in the Silicon Valley.

But I was curious, just, you know, with regard to SpaceX and the IPO, I mean, there's other component parts of that that are a little more dubious and questionable.

There are folks out there deeply more cynical than I am that just call it a damn Ponzi scheme, period, full stop.

Yep.

Where you are in that spectrum.

Krugman, for example?

Yes.

Look, so I'm a small investor, but I think it's nuts, right?

I think it's nuts.

I mean, it's like, look, for example, you just look at the prospectus, and the biggest part of it is payments from Anthropic.

for these data centers that are horrific for the environment, are badly set up in their networking equipment, that nominally he's trying to restart XAI for the third time, buy Cursor to go somewhere.

Yeah, buy Cursor, $60 billion San Francisco-based company that five years ago didn't exist.

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