Vladimir Tenev

I saw something.

be a living icon and yeah yeah i'd agree with you but oh not a living icon just a legend for a while i got into collecting uh signed books like signed first editions what do you got um i've got some good science fiction i've got some signed asimov's

heinlein are you guys science fiction fans no asimov's foundation it's uh yeah legendary books so yeah yeah sometimes one interesting thing if you had to guess what percentage of books sold in the us are digital like kindle version versus physical what would your guess be

What percent are digital?

Yeah.

What do you think it is?

Do you think most are digital?

I think most people would say it's like digital just ate into the market, but north of 80% are still physical.

I believe that.

And most people that buy books don't actually read them.

It's like a gift.

It's something to put in your bookshelf.

I've done that.

It's like a piece of art.

Yeah, so like digital book sales grew fast initially, but then it kind of plateaued at I think something under 20% of total book sales.

What else are you working on?

right yeah but we should talk about harmonic i mean it's pretty fascinating yeah a couple years ago um i started a company called harmonic where i'm the exec chairman of so i don't uh have an operating role but i'm still very involved and harmonic's role uh harmonic's goal is to build mathematical super intelligence and what we mean by that is ai that can reason mathematically and

where you can verify 100% of the reasoning.

So no hallucinations.

And the first area where we sort of like pointed harmonic at is, well, the end goal is to actually solve really big, important problems in math and science, research level, big problems.