Werner Vogels
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And if you think how they work, most of them are day laborers.
That means that they go to the bank, they get $2, they buy something, they try to sell it, they bring the $2 back and hope to have 40 cents left to buy food.
They probably have that.
But then they don't have money left to cook it.
Why?
Because these big canisters, these butane canisters, cost $10.
And they don't have $10.
And so there's a young company called Coco Networks that built a sort of ATM where you can go with a canister.
You plop the canister in and you say, give me 15 cents of gas.
And then you can take that home.
You can cook your food.
Yeah, now, this is not a world-shocking problem, but it is solving really hard problems that people have.
And those kind of companies are really the ones that, and those kind of problems are often kind of the things that I like to service through the predictions.
This year, you know, I do think there are things every year.
I mean, I could have done 10 predictions.
You could have.
But that doesn't work that fairly well.
Yeah, yeah.
But, you know, was it two years ago?
An example, a topic that has become more and more openly discussable is menopause for women.