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O'Shaughnessy Ventures has been something that has been, like in my mind for probably the last 10 years.
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I think that the pandemic lock-in advanced trends that were already there by, in some circumstances as much as seven to 10 years.
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My thesis is that, you know, for most of human history, a genius was born, lived, and died and no one knew anything about him or her.
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Talent, innovation, creativity are mostly probably normally distributed.
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And for the first time in human history, we can go find that person in Nairobi, we can go find the person in Bangladesh.
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And fund them, to do a whole variety of things.
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A big part of the dominating theme that's guiding everything at OSV is we want asymmetric opportunities that are win-win.
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So each vertical is going to address a different aspect.
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Infinite Films is the first vertical that was, because as you know, I love movies.
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I've been disgusted with the fact that Hollywood doesn't make Rudy anymore.
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It really bothers me that they don't make inspirational movies that also inspire people. We'll do documentaries.
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We'll do feature type films, We're gonna advertise, are you a director? Are you a screenwriter?
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Are you all of these things.
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We'll get the applications, we'll pick the director, we'll pick the producer will pick the cinematographer.
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My guess is they're all gonna be young and probably out of film school, and then they can dissipate.
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They're all gonna get a piece of ownership of the movie Ultimately I see this as probably like five years from now, we'll be mostly an AI movie company.
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the next vertical is Infinite Media.
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I think media is, growing, and is going to be part of every, ecosystem.
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We think at O S V that there's gonna be opportunities to like roll up some podcasts, not in a venture methodology, but more like a bond.
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Like I think we can put together a package of podcasts and make offers to the podcaster where, look, you become part of this family, we'll pay you X amount right now, you'll get x amount of revenues.
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The next vertical is the one that I'm best known now for because Stability, which is Infinite Adventures.
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I, I love the fact that that was the original term of venture capital.
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It wasn't venture capital, it was adventure capital.
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So one of the things that I was gonna do after we sold OSAM was this idea of Gray Swan, And I explained the gray swan to him and he goes, "that's really, really cool.
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question, do you have 500 million lying around for the compute power that you're gonna need to do this?"
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And I'm like, okay, we're gonna put gray swan on the back burner.
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Then Dan called me about two weeks later and he goes, I think I found your gray swan.
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And it was Emad and Stability ai.
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We're gonna run a fellowship.
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It's gonna be a hundred thousand for a year.
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And we want it to be very disparate.
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We want it aimed at creatives, but my definition of a creative is somewhat different than other people's.
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You are a creative, an entrepreneur is a creative, artists obviously are creatives. scientists are creative.
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Atlantis, this mythical kingdom sent out its explorers to the rest of the world and they sent 12.
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And so I'm like, let's fund 12 fellowships based on these atlantian notions.
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So we're gonna get four who we're gonna fund to make original mistakes.
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the next four are gonna build original mistakes, and the final four are gonna try to explain and educate what we learned from the, original mistakes.
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So each of the fellowships will be a hundred thousand dollars for a year.
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And of course with the fellows.
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I mean, if you're ambitious, you're gonna apply for a hundred thousand dollars free money, fellowship, where you get to work on anything you wanna work on.
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And by the way, I'm not gonna like say I'm doing this for the people.
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I'm not, man, I'm doing this for me.
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One of the side benefits that I also love is the idea that I can make, hopefully, life better for people with these innovations, with the people I end up working with, with expanding the network for and allowing people into the network who were boxed out before.
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Like, I'm not doing anything so that I can add another zero to my worth.
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Like, I just don't care about that.
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What I do care about is like ideas and having somebody who is consistently going to say, okay, with all your pessimism, I'm gonna be busy over here.
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Ideas are great, I value them highly, but ideas that aren't put into action are daydreams you've got to take action against the ideas that animate you.
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