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"[Music] welcome back to another episode of the light cone and we've got a special one today because we are in somoma and we just wrapped up uh 300 person Retreat of some of our top AI Founders and we ..."

"of last year the wildest thing is realizing that uh both summer and fall batch in aggregate on average over the batch in 12 weeks average 10% week onwe growth so not just the very best the Airbnb of t..."

"was that just the the rate of execution of startups is going is going much higher and you can see it in both like how quickly companies are hitting like a million dollars in AR like we used to I think..."

"starting to work and let's talk about why that is the case does anyone have any thoughts on that well I guess I have a meme that I showed you guys earlier you know I think the classic thing is you hav..."

"talking about um he's been through like multiple cycles of enterprise software uh and he said that usually when there's sort of like a new cycle shift but like cloud or mobile there's always people in..."

"fundamental based advice which is make something people want and in this case traditionally the challenge was convincing people that they wanted the product and I it sounds like what's driving the gro..."

"products they're really inventing a lot of new patterns on how to build a product because nobody knew how to really get LMS to behave let's say correctly and give very predictable results and people t..."

"testing was sort of this like afterthought thing that you try to do as little of as possible um I I heard one really interesting comment from a Founder um who's building an AI agent who said that he t..."

"prompting which is sort of like mirrors basically all of the opportunity for the people watching right now it's like basically agency and taste prompting just knowing what to tell someone to do or you..."

"incredible tool for Rapid iteration I guess people are you know sort of worried that the jobs are going to go away but earlier we were talking about um there's this great Milton fredman uh quote where..."

"textbooks very good at chemistry um so I think we're going to see incredible levels of productivity the story is fascinating to me because the alternative is what replacing people's shovels with spoon..."

"that that I I posed uh to Sam that that everyone seen most interested in is is essentially you know are any of these startups actually going to exist in 10 years that was certainly relevant to the aud..."

"the answer to uh your question I think luxury real estate I you know what what what are the things that that people will will value in the future and if we get to the point where we really do have jus..."

"kind of on the machine money side of things but then you think about the human money what are the things that that we get that we really value from humans like you know if you go to see live music we ..."

"actually kind of act as like a life coach and again like you know if you're fortunate enough to grow up with great parents and a great culture or something you have a lot of advantages that a lot of o..."

"than sort of just giving people uh more human money let's give them like the better uh way to live and that's sort of you know everyone can get here but then I think there's like a a special thing her..."

"even have that you know today with some of the creative tools where you know I don't have like a lot of artistic ability but with like AI image generation or something I can convey you know funny Conc..."

"I've been asking a lot of people about your 2035 you know what do you want to see in 2035 um but also thinking backwards to 2015 and so if we go back to 2015 you know 10 years ago was where we were ha..."

"the great thing about that is we've been able to create this intelligence that doesn't have this drive to survive it doesn't mind that we spin up an intelligence and it does some work and then it disa..."

"implausible like no one would have believed it yet here we are on I think basically the best timeline like we actually delivered it we have uh an open and competitive market with I would say at least ..."

"with web or using perplexity directly yeah exactly I mean if you want to understand the future I think you always have to look at where the early adopters are and so you say you know again now if we g..."

"out how to like navigate a government website like one rather example was like I need to do set up some registration like you know here's a screenshot just tell me like exactly where I need to click i..."

"laptop and like the idea was you basically sit in the room and you just like build like a to-do list app or whatever you can as quickly as you can and you basically measured on like your max output in..."

"like a dream scenario this is a great example actually I think of the way in which AI is creating wealth right because there's a category of businesses or products that would not have been economicall..."

"have to build a business like Uber or lift door Dash marketplaces you had to do that hypers scale of hiring lots of people the funny thing about that era was there's this concept that I think was prob..."

"from all the people you had more than 300 Founders right here sort of sharing their stories and I don't think I heard Blitz scaling or I'm trying to hire as many people as possible like at all nobody ..."

"right so so the problem a lot of times with selling a product is is the customer doesn't really know if they're getting the ROI and so that makes for a long and painful sales cycle but if you're able ..."

"programming like if you want to have I think it was Tavis so Tavis is building this real time AI avatars with video and audio that are very realistic part of the trick is they got it to very low laten..."

"valuable things right now and then along the way you're going to have these golden e valves I don't know I hate to bring in you know Consulting speak but like what are the Moes right and the Moes in t..."