Victor Riparbelli
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267 appearances
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2 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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I agree.
I agree. I don't think that's my top three of things needs to be fixed. What is your top one that needs to be fixed? Keep the reliefs for entrepreneurs, for people who create things, maybe even make them better because that's very attractive. I think there's also a whole bunch of things you could do in terms of subsidizing GPU costs, for example, that would incentivize for UK data centers.
That would be interesting, right? That's an actual competitive advantage. Obviously, don't over-regulate. We haven't seen much regulation yet. The census, that is a little bit of a wipe shift from the last administration to this one in terms of regulation. Don't look at Europe as an example, right? Europe has all the AI regulation and none of the AI companies.
Staying the course to some extent and not screwing it up, I think is really important.
I think that playing computer games is probably one of the best things a kid can do for like future success in their life.
That's exactly what I did. World of Warcraft. No, actually, what I think it is, is that we're probably the first generation that really had access to like, especially a bit more complex strategy games. Basically, what you learn throughout life is like decision making to some extent, right? And computer games is a microcosm of the universe, right?
And you can run so many simulations and it may not look like it for parents if you're playing like Warcraft 3 or Red Alert or whatever game that you're playing, World of Warcraft that you're playing back then.
But actually what you're doing is you're training yourself to make a lot of decisions really rapidly and to understand what the implications of each decision that you make are in some kind of game that you're playing. But life is a game. Careers is a game. Building companies is a game to some extent, right?
And I think we're just the first generation where you actually can sit by yourself and get so many iterations in that would have otherwise been impossible. You can't sit down before the computer era and simulate lots of small decisions in how to run a business. You just couldn't do it, right? You would have to actually build a business and run a business. Here you can play rollercoaster tycoon.
And of course, rollercoaster tycoon is not like running a real theme park, even if it's just like 20% of being the CEO of a real theme park, right? I think that teaches you a lot. And so I think the decision-making and kind of sense of strategy you build from that is, I think is highly valuable because it's a two-way feedback mechanism, right? You can sit down and read books about things.
But I think what's powerful about computer games is that there's this kind of constant feedback loop.
I am a generalist in the purest sense of the word. And when I was younger, I wanted to be an artist, wanted to be a great computer programmer, developer. And I just like... I never really excelled at any of them. I still have a dream of making the music improve one day. But I think what I'm really good at, I know a lot of things about lots of very random things. I'm just extremely curious.
I'm not an expert in anything specific, but I have a very, very wide range of interests. And I think my neural network has been trained on
so many random things like how elevators work to black metal in Norway to like how people make technology like all these kind of different things and I kind of used to be a bit annoyed at myself like why can't you just sit down and become like you know the world's best music producer or like the world's best programmer or AI researcher or something like that and I think now I've realized that my power is actually the fact that I'm like decent at like a lot of things
I think especially in my role, right, what you do is you make decisions and you get ideas and you can't force those things. I think I really truly believe that those come from your subconscious. And the more food and diverse things you put into your brain, the better you get at like making analogies and pattern matching and those kind of things.
So I did a degree in kind of split computer science and business at university. And I really kicked myself not just taking a STEM degree, like a pure CS degree. Studying business, controversial opinion is like mostly useless. There's basically like 10 ideas in business. And if you learn those, you'll be pretty well covered.
I should just do like a pure CS degree or pure math or engineering, something like that.
I think that one of the things I've changed my mind on in this whole AI hype cycle, I think when you're in the middle of these cycles and you see all these things getting funded, all these competitors pop up, you get a lot of noise and a lot of like, oh, should we do these things? Should we listen too much to what the market says? Someone is doing this over here.
And I think I've just really learned the lesson again, although I think we've stayed the course really well, to never do things out of guilt of other people doing it or looking too much at competitors. or what the broader kind of AI landscape is doing. Listen to the customer. They're the ones who pay your bills, and ultimately, they're the ones that you need to make happy.
I had a period where I maybe over-indexed a little bit too much on what other companies are doing as the AI space in general, what's happening there as the most valuable signal, as opposed to the customers. Maybe more like a relearning of a fundamental lesson in building startups.
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