Seth Besmertnik

Generally, as time goes on, they get bigger and better.

When all things that are alive, like human beings, they all have an arc.

All companies have an arc.

All companies eventually die.

All the data suggests they die.

Now dying might be an emerger, it might be a consolidation, it might be an bankruptcy.

So I think it's like figuring out how to build systems that can last and actually get better as they go on versus smaller.

That's like, that's, that's a, there's a lot of good, and he has a good TED talk, which, which, you know, is the shorter version of reading the book.

scare you uh i don't know if it's gonna be scary but i think that i mean i can go off on this i'll give you a lot of things scary like i think we're gonna have robots uh i think that um i think i think robots might do some bad things i don't know um i i think more practically like

I don't think people are going to go on Amazon.com anymore.

I think that that agents will be like AI systems will do our shopping and purchasing.

Doesn't mean Amazon's going out of business because they provide the whole logistics and all the infrastructure.

I think the way that people buy things is going to go is going to be completely changing.

We're not going to be on websites looking at stuff.

You're going to talk to an AI and it's going to know what you like and you're going to deal that way.

And you don't really care where it comes from.

You just want to make it show up as fast as possible and how much it costs.

And that would mean that there would be a lot of consolidation in the viewer model of e-commerce, which is going to Amazon or going to Best Buy or something like that.

Yes.

And then the robots will do our laundry.