Salim Ismail

But we're going to create four or five times more companies.

And that net balance is out.

So I'm much more on the Andreessen side.

And also his hair shape of his head aligns very well to my thinking.

I have a bunch of thoughts here.

You know, this new social contract kind of framing is correct.

It's very vague.

We have to have more specific things like portable benefits, new taxation logic, lifelong reskilling.

And government's been built around taxing human labor.

They're not ready for AI software agents, and they need to get a thing.

When you have AI abundance without institutional redesign, you're going to get a backlash, not progress.

And we're going to see huge backlash against this just because governments are so slow.

If I could pick a moonshot here in energy, it would be to have a software-defined grid.

because that will change the game completely.

This generation is actually getting done.

What I find fascinating here is that science capital is becoming compute capital plus data access, right?

Plus some validation infrastructure.

I don't have an opinion there.

I don't understand why, unless it was a completely, it's a self-promotional thing where they're buying a channel.

And there are a number of companies working on that.