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Chapter 1: What are Scott's predictions for 2025?
And you don't have to be a baller. You just have to be living a virtuous life or trying to. Because as a father of two boys, 14 and 17, it's striking how easy it is to add value. No, you should wear shoes if you're going to go to school, right? A young man the other day, I got into MIT, but I have a basketball scholarship to Joey Bagadona to you, and I'm thinking about taking it. No, go to MIT.
Trust me on this. Go to MIT, and then in 30 years, buy a basketball team. It's just kind of showing up And trying to be a good role model and listening and, you know, convincing them they have value because you're taking an interest in their life.
And unfortunately, you know, Michael Jackson and the Catholic Church have fucked it up for all of us because there's huge suspicion and a cloud that surrounds you. if you become interested in engaging in a young man or a boy's life that isn't yours. People have weird suspicions around you, and it's really too bad.
In New York, there are three applicants for big sisters, or three times as many applicants for big sisters of New York as male applicants for big brothers. So what do we need to do? We need to create a zeitgeist in our society where a man who is doing well should feel a certain level or a certain obligation
There's a wonderful zeitgeist in the corporate community that if you're a successful woman, you have an obligation to mentor a younger woman in the organization. That zeitgeist is out there. They have all these mentoring programs. We need that same kind of cultural shift to say that a successful, good man needs to be involved in the life of a young man or a boy. That just is part of our society.
And the wonderful thing is, or the easy thing, I should say, is these young men and these boys are everywhere. You talk to a single mother you're working with, hey, would your son like to come with me to a ball game? I mean, they are just everywhere, these young men that especially single mothers are looking for men to engage in their lives.
Or even the sons of your friends, because sometimes, and this is a natural thing, boys, teenage boys will listen to their dad's friends more than they'll listen to their dad. So, I think we need a cultural shift. I think we need more organizations that pair people.
And more than anything, though, we need to get past this bullshit of believing that men who have fraternal and paternal love to give but don't have their own kids, or maybe they do, but they have... They have more resources and more goodwill that somehow that isn't anything but wonderful. So I think this is an enormous unlock in America.
We need to give these young men more role models and more relationships and also just a recognition that you don't have to be an amazing dude. You just have to be a nice man trying to live a good life.
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Chapter 2: What is the significance of the new duopoly between OpenAI and NVIDIA?
Occasionally, I would get like seven stamps on my subway card, my subway restaurant card. That was my big kind of accomplishment was Anyways, my point is I hadn't gotten anywhere near your achievements at this age. And also our crew is so young. And the fact that we can build a media company with so few people It's just been exceptionally rewarding going back to these feelings of being paternal.
One of the most rewarding things about 2024 for me was seeing all these young people in our organization do well and be able to pay them well because we're in the right place at the right time and we're executing well. But I'm encouraging everybody and I'm also trying to encourage myself to stop at the end of the year and take pause and reflect. First and foremost, I don't have ass cancer yet.
So that's key. But also just how rewarding it is to work with so many talented young people who are building something. I've had such a wonderful year. So thanks to everyone at Prof G, yourself included. This has been so rewarding. And Catherine, my business partner here, we just consistently, we've built companies together and we're like...
It's just so rewarding to build something that's of a similar or greater success than our other companies with like 90% less fucking brain damage and drama.
It's coming. It's coming. Once the money comes in, the drama's coming too. There you go.
But thank you, Ed. You're an impressive young man. Thank you, Claire, the producer here. She's just done an amazing job. I feel so fortunate and blessed to be... People ask me, where do you get your information? I'm like, I have a bunch of muses called young people I work with who inform me, update me, give me just a better view of the world.
But yeah, I feel very fortunate to be in this seat and to be surrounded by so many talented young people.
It's, yeah. Thank you, Scott. This has been an incredible year. I've loved it. And I'm very excited for 2025. I think it's just going to be incredible. I think we're going to do amazing things. And I hope people keep listening and I hope they keep watching and I hope they tell their friends to listen to this podcast because I've said it to you before. But I'll say it again.
I think we've got the best podcast on the market and I hope the audience agrees. So I'm very excited for the year ahead.
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