Reid Hoffman
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 19 Jun
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I mean, that was the point Ezra was making to me.
It's one thing, again, just in the hands of you, sir.
Yeah.
God bless you.
I'd rather you than these others.
Yeah.
But the point being, compute for the UC system and the CSUs and for 40 million Americans in California, for 350 million Americans, for society writ large.
It's not about monetization.
It's not just about the commercialization in the context of an ROI that is numeric.
And I know there's the sort of free enterprise case that that is –
you know, we don't even get into the larger philosophical point.
Well, one of the things I think is important for everyone to think about is we don't have the AI revolution except through the commercial sector.
the capabilities of doing it in any other sector than the commercial sector do not exist.
Because what you need is you need to be able to apply scale teams with scale resources, and like scale teams I mean thousands of people, tens of thousands of people, scale resources, billions to hundreds of billions, in risk environment.
where a lot of this will fail as you're going.
No other sector other than the commercial sector can do it.
And that's because people go, well, sure, I'll bet a billion dollars here that I might lose, right?
Because I'm not gonna then be castigated for it or else, because it's like, look, it's my billion dollars, I'm trying to do it, et cetera.
And that's part of what gets to the scale compute, scale data centers and all the rest.
Now, so what we, when we think about this is we say, well, how do we shape it?
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