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  1. “Sundays watch this week in tech. He's Alex. I'm Jason.com slash Alex and X.com slash Jason. We'll see you on Wednesday. Bye bye.”

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  2. “What I'm saying, Lon? There's a foam that you spray on people that immobilizes. It's an immobilization foam. This looks like something science fiction, but they immobilize this guy with a foam. You spray the foam on them. They can't get up. They can't reach their gun. And it's sticky. And it's not lethal. I think this could be like an incredible. So this falls under the category of non-lethals. What I would like to invest in, if somebody has an idea for this, I would like to do a military tech investment. I'm very, you know. pro-military startups i've got some favorites in fact and i'm very fond of the executives who run these companies so i would like to look for non-lethal um murder bots so non-lethal bots is what i would invest in to uh just put it plainly all right this has been another amazing episode of twist march 2nd 2026 in the can as my friend leol would say”

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  3. “So, I did do a deep dive on that a decade ago when there was a bunch of police killings, and I said, why don't we use these phones and stuff like that? Pull up foams on YouTube. There's a foam you can spray on rioters or an emotionally disturbed person or a person with a knife or a shooter. Now, if it's a school shooter, whatever, I don't care. Take them out. But if you have an emotionally disturbed person with a knife who's distraught or I don't know, they lost all their money investing in micro strategy and they're destitute, Alex.”

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  4. “Now, for murder bots, I think there's an important discussion to be had of if crazy dictator Kim Jong-un decides to send 10,000 troops from North Korea into South Korea. South Korea should have autonomous robots that could counter them and that yes, if fired upon, would neutralize. Would I back a company doing that that was run by very thoughtful people that had a philosophy about it? Yeah, I would. Just, you know, it's not exactly in my interest. It's not in my kill zone, if you will. But I do think that that's better. And what I would like to actually see, and this is what I would love to back, is non-lethals. I've always thought non-lethals was a really great investment category. Non-lethals include stun guns, right? There's nets and webbing. There's foams.”

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  5. “Common sense, thoughtful legislation about that. So I wouldn't want to be involved in that. If you explicitly said we're going to track everybody domestically, no, I wouldn't want to invest in that.”

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  6. “Well, domestic surveillance, definitely not. I don't think that that's a great idea. I think we have to really think about new laws and regulations because AI makes domestic surveillance a lot different than just I happen to have a camera in my 7-Eleven in case I get robbed. Like now you can have a camera that tracks across all the ring cameras, you know, a lost dog. Completely noble. I think that was a great product. But you could also have a ring camera that surveills people and knows their entire pattern and that's wrong. Now the cameras I have for my different properties on my properties. I have cameras from Unify that record license plates, record facial recognition. It just comes like that out of the box. But that's for my property. Do I want that on every lamppost everywhere? No. Why? Because it's going to be abused. So we need to have some.”

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  7. “Build a language model explicitly for the military. And that actually seems like an incredible opportunity for somebody. Where is the anthropic or open AI or Grok or Gemini specifically for the military? That sounds like a great thing to do. If murder bots are not ready, it would be a lot better for society if instead of sending humans into combat, we sent robots into combat and they took care of bad guys. And by the way, with a bomb, what do we do, Alex? Do we send humans to defuse a bomb anymore like the hurt locker or do we send a robot?”

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  8. “You can also be like, I just sell PCs and chips and batteries. And if people want to use a battery, I can't tell them what to do with the battery. So both of these arguments make sense to me. And I think we just need to settle this down. And if somebody's building a War OS, like a war-based language model, what a great opportunity.”

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  9. “Makes total sense. However, In the case of like a peacetime situation, let the company do what it wants to do. And I don't think they need to ban them as some terrible contractor across the whole thing. That seemed like an unnecessary escalation. Do I think it's patriotic for a company to make tools and then not allow the government or the military GSM? Personally, I think that's a little ungrateful. But listen, we allow people who are religious or who have like certain philosophies to hate gay people, right? Like I'm Catholic. We don't allow women to be priests. All right, I grew up Catholic. I should say I'm Christian, not Catholic, but they're allowed to hate gay people, not allow them in the church and say it's a sin and they're allowed to not let women be priests. Okay, it's sexist, it's homophobic, but I guess in this country, you're allowed to be sexist and homophobic if you say it's for religion. You're also allowed to be a peace nick and say, I don't want to participate in this.”

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  10. “You know, this is America, and we have a long tradition of people getting to be pacifists if they want. They can literally, for religious reasons, not join the military during a draft and not be deserters, I guess. And so, you know, if the people at Anthropic don't want to participate in the military, and it seems like, you know, it seems like this administration has like some issues with anthropic. So, you know, there's a lot of gamesmanship going on here between those two parties. I liked Dave's take that maybe this is being done by Anthropic to get press or whatever. But I just want to say, you know, it's not... Anybody in America can make the choice if they want to work with the government. If I said to with a very rare exception of we're actually in a war on the countries being invaded and then you can take over production.”

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  11. “And then they might be like, oh, okay, yeah, don't get a job because it's going to pay you four times as much. So just a piece of advice from a husband and an entrepreneur. Great job. You're invited to join us. March 16th and 17th. Join us at launchfestival.com. So you, George, get to come to launch.”

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  12. “Awesome. Hey, listen, great job, George. I think. Know sometimes you build something you're passionate about, which is great. Obviously, your pickle watch is great, but you may stumble onto something. So I always tell founders, keep your peripheral vision open. What you may have stumbled on is that there might be a bigger opportunity for you in doing watch and app experiments, refinement, and making a tool for people who build that. So you might have like an even better concept that you could pivot to because those people might pay 500 a year and you might be able to get a thousand of them and you get 1,000 people you pay in your $500 a year, a solo entrepreneur, you make 500 grand, and then you said you got a wife and kids, yeah?”

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  13. “All right, so pickle watch, there you go. I'm looking at it right now. Well done. And so can you make enough money here to support your family or no?”

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  14. “And there is one of these called carve for skiers, Alex, which goes onto your boot and it does the same thing on a very refined. So you actually have. Consumer app, and you just use this to figure out how to make your consumer app better. Now I got it. Okay. Perfect.”

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  15. “Pro Max plan is like a hundred bucks a month from Anthropic. Anthropic probably loses money on this or some users who max it out, they lose money on, but people who like use it lightly like it's just a chat GPT, they probably make a ton of money on those That's why they banned open cloth from using your Pro Max subscription, because that's not what they wanted to do, because they know the Pro Max, they know that the OpenClaw users are going to rip through the credits. And then that would turn their economics upside down. So there's a lot of inside baseball going on here. But George, what's your story? Are you an entrepreneur? You run a company, you work for a big company? I do. Which one is it?”

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  16. “So, this is just a bit in the weeds, Alex, but a good point. And it's great that you put some dollars on it. So this is really a great demo. Well done.”

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  17. “You've got on one side open claw looking at whatever the software you use for your testing. There's a million different testing frameworks. And then on the right, you've got Claudes, which is different than OpenClaw, Claude is the product from Anthropic, and they have a Chrome extension. That Chrome extension is looking at actual users live on the site. Then telling OpenClaw, here's what I learned, and then open claw saying, let me form a test based on that or what?”

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  18. “It's crazy. So, all right, just to catch the audience up, if you are a founder. You will watch user sessions. There's different services you can do and different software you can get to watch the user use your app. Typically what happens is somebody who's a product manager or somebody in custom support or a founder will watch those videos and they'll look at their Google Analytics and find where like, oh, people don't click the purchase button or the try now button or maybe you want to say try now or purchase and you want to.”

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  19. “Yeah, yeah. Yeah. I mean, I don't use. I don't use Codex or any of the programming tools. I've used Cowork. I have the downloaded app. And when you have the downloaded app, a lot of times it needs to use MCP, I guess, through the Clod Chrome extension. And then it gives instructions to your browser to do things like maybe go into my LinkedIn and read my inmail and make it into a... A database of my emails, or whatever.”

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  20. “16th and 17th. Monday and Tuesday, March 16th and 17th in two weeks in San Francisco 400 investors, founders, and a couple of, you know, folks who support those too previous groups. Launch Fest. All right, who's next on the program, Alex?”

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  21. “And by the way, Greg, you can come to the launch festival. Go to launchfestival.com. We're selling only 50 tickets. I think half of them are gone already. For people who are not founders, thousand bucks each, then we give the other 350 tickets to our investor guests who are judging and the speakers and to founders. Keep the event free. You can just buy one of the $1,000 tickets, come to lunch with me both days, and you will support all those 350 founders coming for free. Greg gets to come for free. I got one of those precious founder tickets for you. So go to launchfestival.com. We're doing it on March. I can't see. Somebody help me out.”

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  22. “That's actually the big win. So, this is, let me give you some advice as an expert in demoing. You start with what's strongest. What strongest is this insanity and the vision of having AR glasses? So what this would mean is for our replicants, we would look over in our Austin office and at the conference table during our management team meeting would be Deckard, Roy, Press whoever we would see them through our headsets, which is nuts.”

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  23. “This is exactly like the. The Black Mirror episode where they're stuck in this Star Trek thing and the simulation and the guys like torturing them in the USS Calister. Yeah, that was a great answer.”

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  24. “That's going to take a lot of CPU, but that's super fun as a sim tool to watch. It's like a Black Mirror episode, Alex. We get to watch people walk around and do their job.”

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  25. “You've created with the Unreal Engine. Essentially, a first person shooter of your office. So you can run around like you're playing Doom.”

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  26. “Want to build a car. Okay, so instead of having to set up your open claw, this walks you through it like a wizard, really.”

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  27. “Smart movement. Yeah, it's like you're trying to brick by brick build something and then all of a sudden this castle gets built and there's like a million people working on it.”

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  28. “So everybody's doing hosting. How do you stand out from the thousand other people who are now like, oh, you know what? I'm going to do I'm going to host OpenClaw. Like OpenClaw Foundation, maybe they'll have a hosting option like WordPress does. So how do you think about that? Is this like a temporary business or how does this become like a sustainable long-term business?”

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  29. “This is what I wear when I'm skiing. And then, you know, during the day, I have my other one. And you can have two different plods working for you. Anyway”

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  30. “All right, brother, we'll see you soon. Great K Fabe. Great Abe. We have two more guests and demos, I think. Yes, we do because we're 53 minutes into a show. It's a lot of show, folks.”

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  31. “But don't announce it just like I'll come on and just like act like whoever's off. Just act like I'm now in a relationship with the other person.”

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  32. “Get your pronouns correct. Dave Morin, he's the guy. You can listen to him every weekend on an exceptional pod with his wife, Brett. It's called more or less because Dave Morin is on it. And the lessons are on it. Jessica Lesson from The Information. What a great pod it is. I enjoy it. When somebody's out sick, when we surprise the audience and have me come on, I think that'd be hilarious.”

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  33. “In related news, I just got Opus 4.7. I got the early release. What? Yes. How? I got it from Dario, sent it to me directly. And it says here that I have been misgendering people and that I now have a misgendering negative score and that I have to work on that. And that will be on 60 minutes this week. A woke. Opus four points, I'm joking”

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  34. “Yes. It's like I'm giving up 200 million in a military contract and I'm going to get 10 million. Users, and I'll go right to number one, which is hard”

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  35. “It's so important for people to start thinking about their data, the proprietary nature of it, and do you want to, and this is no dig to Sam, but we both know Sam for a long time. He's got sharp out. Yeah, but he's got sharp elbows and he wants to, he has to build a trillion dollar company here. If there's any revenue opportunity, he's going to take it. So if you're shipping all your data up there, don't be surprised if you wake up one day and he creates a legal. Copilot A coding co pilot. That's his right to do that. But it's also your right to say, you know what, all my venture data, all my secrets, all my podcasting secrets are on my Mac Studio, and we're never upgrading them to the cloud. And we use an open source project. That's your counterbalance viva la difference. Last one, Alex, do you have a last?”

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  36. “And they're technically, it's illegal for them to do it because they're not allowed to spy on Americans, CIA, FBI, we have some division there. Okay, second story, Alex, tea up a second one, Lightning Round.”

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  37. “About this. Okay, here's basically what happened Anthropic is like I have two red lines number one, we're not ready. This software's not ready to build murder bots, so please don't use Claude to create bots that kill humans. And then number two, we don't want to be involved in building or surveillance state against Americans. So please don't use our software to spy on Americans. If you can do those two things, we're happy to sell to you, but we are not going to give you a license if you do those two things. Your thoughts on a Private enterprise giving terms to the military of how they want their tools to be used and saying if we don't need the money so you can cancel our contract. That's what they basically said.”

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  38. “Alex, there's been three big news stories. I want Dave's opinion. 90 seconds for each one. Going to hit you with the hard ones. Go ahead”

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  39. “To me privately, I'll send it to you privately and then it has a opens up your Coinbase and it just sends me a Satoshi every hour. So don't worry about it. If you see anything about Satoshi's being sent.”

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  40. “Like, change your mindset. So I created this executive coach skill I've been refining. And then I just said, give people their week in review.”

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  41. “And for the best ones, they're probably at 25. And you know what? If you were on the board of a company worth a billion dollars, you're like, yeah, I'll spend 300 grand a year just making my CEO 5% better. Yeah, totally worth it. So, what if everybody had an executive coach? Well, what is an executive coach do? They watch you work. So, for a CEO, that's like not creepy. It's like Steph Curry wants every video of him shooting ever. For a rank of file employee, they're like, oh my God, I'm being micromanaged. No, you're being macro coached.”

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  42. “All the emails he sent based on category sorted by importance, every notion that he made, every Zoom he had in every calendar entry. And what do you think was accomplished this past week and how should that inform next week and be an executive coach and go research executive coaching? So I don't know if you remember this theory, but it was Travis's, which was everybody's private driver, like everybody gets a chauffeur. So there's this concept, take whatever a rich person has, private jet. Give them Jet Suite, their own private driver, Uber, their ski house or their house in Hawaii, Airbnb. I was like, you know what's interesting is executive coaching is something that's like what is an executive coach cost in Silicon Valley now, Dave, like a good one”

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  43. “I had one, I have two concepts. One, I have my super replicant that has the keys to the kingdom. Only I can talk to it. And it's pretty cool when you give it access to every Gmail at the company, every Slack at the company, and every notion edit at the company and every Zoom. Because now when I'm doing executive coaching, Dave, I say to the replicant, hey, tell me Dave's previous week.”

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  44. “Been calling it the maestro. After that, you know. Movie that came out, like, who's the maestro of all of these agents? And did you solve that for yourself? Like I'm assuming you have multiple agents. I know Britt's got agents working. I'm still working.”

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  45. “Deals with you, Dave. So we have an excuse to just hang. So just slip me in for a hundi. Or if he wants to go plus 10% from the last round and open a note, I'll put in 250, maybe a hundred. I just, I was so taken by his idea. I think it's genius.”

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  46. “Oh, we just had Pulsia on the pod on Friday. He's great. So you invested in this. See if you can. Talk to the founder about getting a very high profile podcaster who's good for a tweet once in a while with a big social volume and a couple of big podcasts to sneak into the last round for like I'll see what I can do like a hundred just a quick 100k because I want to be I want to I want to do more”

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  47. “There's like 20 really big opportunities on this platform. We're taking all of them. Now, Apple might be very generous about it, and they very slowly will say, oh, our notepad will add some features to it, but we're not going to like kill, you know, Evernote year one. I'm going to keep it very simple. So great for them. But yeah, that is the challenge as an entrepreneur, isn't it? Like, who can you trust? To keep the platform open and free. And a nonprofit with a leader like you, Dave, puts the trust level right at 100 for me.”

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  48. “No rug pulling. That's the key. And as we've seen a lot of times large corporations will be excited about a developer program. Twitter had a very robust one for some period of time. Facebook had a very robust one. And our pal, Mark Pingus, is like, oh my God, this is going to be the greatest. Zynga and Facebook forever. Heart, heart, heart. And then, you know, at some point the platform, Microsoft as well, you know, oh, we have WordPerfect and we've got WordStar. Yeah, build whatever you want on Windows. And then at some point, the platform says, you know what?”

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  49. “Profit slash open source thing. I'm sure we were both lobbying heavily for that outcome, but hey, to each founder their own and happy for Peter, obviously. Do you think the opportunity is for investors and open cloud? Because I created OpenClaw at launch.co and said anybody with an idea and a decent team and a prototype, whatever, just email us. We want to invest. I think we've done two so far. I just want to invest in like 20 of these companies, incubate like 20 of them. What do you think? What do you think is the opportunity?”

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  50. “Exactly the opinion. What I wanted to do is just intelligently reflect back to me more information on whatever I send it. That was like how I said it. Got it. And I am going to work on that skill. I started doing it this weekend. Now that I've got Hey, just might as well take the whole video, transcribe it, put it into a notion page, and then I'm going to develop a skill, which is my curator. And so I'm going to create a curator scale and then boom, I'm all done. Building a community business is really hard. And if you're a first-time founder or independent creator, you may not be prepared for everything you need to. On an investment level, you and I were very disappointed. That open claw did not become a for.”

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