Zack Kass

I don't really care if there's a bubble.

I don't care.

And I'll tell you why I don't care.

I don't care because I've studied history long enough to know that bubbles pop and sometimes it's healthy.

Like sometimes market corrections are actually quite good.

Sure.

Well, I'm not sure that anything would have prepared me for that date.

So even as you framed the question, I was thinking like, what would have prepared me?

I went to Berkeley for college.

I studied history and computer science.

I graduated and got a job at a machine learning company.

And the focus was on, at the time, building data sets.

It was a company called Figure 8 Building Data Sets.

for the purposes of machine training.

Of course, now this has become exceptionally normalized and quite lucrative.

Companies like Mercor and LabelBox and Surge, et cetera.

And we were principally selling data at the time to companies like Facebook, Google, and...

Amazon, who could afford these large statistical machine learning models.

And they were mostly just doing product recommendations.

And I stayed there long enough to graduate to a company doing large language models for the purposes of machine translation.