Vladimir Tenev

But well, also, I think it's it's really dangerous marketing in a way.

I can see how it's effective because when people

think of billionaires um and i i recognize uh villainize them i mean well you know i'm a billionaire but i wasn't born a billionaire right yeah i i uh i grew up poor and i created uh businesses that created value and hired lots of people but i think most people's

perception of a billionaire is someone that got their money unfairly like through inheriting it from generations and generations I think in California it's particularly Stark because most billionaires are founders it's people that have created jobs and created businesses and Industries and you have AI and chips and software all epicentered here um

So really it's a founder tax, right?

And then you ask, well, do we need to be disincentivizing founding companies?

Most people will probably tell you, okay, I don't like billionaires, but entrepreneurship and creation of companies and industries is very, very valuable.

So I think it needs a bit of a reframe and people actually need to understand what we're talking about.

Hollywood and California has become the center of that, but over the past 10 years or so, more and more people are leaving to do the entertainment business elsewhere, whether it's filming in Canada or Atlanta, now increasingly overseas.

A lot of people are filming in Canada for tax reasons.

Now I've been finding myself using Gemini more and more.

For a long time I was resisting it, but then you keep hearing, well, you know, Gemini's gotten quite good.

And...

they've done a nice job.

I mean, Google has really, they were kind of left for dead a couple of years ago with the whole AI stuff, but Gemini is quite good.

And then what's really impressed me more recently is Claude Code.

Yeah.

Yeah, the Claude code for not code.

The amazing thing about Claude code is you can write custom software to do tasks for you that ChatGPT cannot do.

So for example, you could say,