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  1. “Yes, but with an asterisk, which is every time a new general purpose technology comes out, the discourse when the printing press came out, the discourse was very similar to the current discourse on AI. It's going to destroy society. It's going to destroy human learning and knowledge. It's going to disable the current people who are the custodians of knowledge, which are mostly priests in society from being able to control the flow of information. We're going to have all this misinformation, et cetera, et cetera. Now, by the way, you don't have a scientific revolution without the printing press, right? So now there's always this fear.”

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  2. “and super agency is the time where when a lot of people get access to a new general purpose technology, the transformation of society that comes, and it's like printing press or electricity or cars or mobile phones, it's this amazing transformation of all of our lives because not only do I get the superpower by having AI, The fact that you have a superpower with AI also increase my agency. So for example, you're a doctor who now has access to AI, your ability to help tend to lots of people's hells now just get amplified. And it's the same thing like when a car was created, a doctor could now do have a broader range of places they could visit to go help. That part of his car is have that super agency. It's not just I can drive places now because the doctor can drive places.”

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  3. “So I think AI is in a, look, so I last year I published a book called Impromptu, which is the first book on AI, co-written with AI, right? To show as well as tell that AI is not just artificial intelligence, it's amplification intelligence. It gives us superpowers. As part of that, I'm publishing a book in January called Super Agency, which is our human agency, even with its agentic technology, can and will be magnified. We will get these superpowers.”

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  4. “Right, because Mustafa moved over. Yeah, he moved over because he wanted to do a consumer agent, and inflection is doing B2B software sales now.”

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  5. “I think broadly, look, it doesn't mean that they don't have some challenges. Like people criticize, and Facebook, for example. But actually, in fact, a billion people get on it every day. They share their experiences, pictures, lives with loved ones, friends, etc. All of that's very, very positive. I think Twitter, unfortunately, has taken a turn for the worst. I think if you go, you know, where's the largest site which has the most untruths on it? I think it's Twitter, right? But, you know, that doesn't mean it can't also be improved and fixed over time”

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  6. “You go to Iran or Russia or something else. It's like, well, anonymity is important for saving your life. But on the other hand, you should also be thinking about like, okay, what does this means as a society? And part of what we want in media networks is we want to be collectively learning. So if I'm posting that vaccines or an evil plot for corporations to try to kill our children, you're like, well, you're trying to persuade people to do something that's bad for them and bad for society. So we should respond in some way. We may still allow you to post, but we may put a little box around it saying, you know, here's what experts.”

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  7. “but they'll use AI in different ways and so forth, and part of that invention. One of the things I tend to think, people say, well, what ideas are you looking at as an investor? And I'm like, look, I'm looking for that great idea that I haven't thought of, that someone out there amongst the millions of entrepreneurs has got that great thing and can possibly make it work. That's what I'm looking for. So when I look to a future of social networks, to give a little bit more of a specific answer, like I tend to think social networks need to both have individuals as customers and societies as customers. So you need to think about like that balance of, you need to think about both in how you're designing them. So, and that doesn't mean no freedom of speech and autocratic, because I actually think more or less you should allow people to post whatever they want as long as it's civil. And if you want to choose to have an anonymous social arc, that's fine. There's the definite rule, especially when you get to places where the government is a...”

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  8. “I'm always open as an investor to interesting ideas, right? Here we are in a business podcast. So I'm always looking at stuff. Look, I think they will grow to be an increasingly, just as they've grown massively in the last 20 years, they will continue to grow to be an important part of life. I think there will be different social networks that fit different parts of our lives. That's part of the reason, like, for example, like back when I started LinkedIn, it was also thought to be, oh, no, no, no one's ever going to do a business network. It's only going to be social networks, right? It's only going to be at the time it was like friends stirred, then it was MySpace, then it was Facebook. Look, those are only going to be that. There's never going to be those. And then people say, well, there's only going to ever be one social network. And you're like, well, actually, in fact, we do have like Twitter and we do have Snap and we do have, right, there's multiple ones. And I think there will be more. So I think they're going to have more social networks and they're going to fit in to different people's lives. They're going to have different community cultures for them. And so, and I think not only will they get multimodal.”

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  9. “Answer is both. So there's responsibility on both sides. It's like, oh no, it's the responsibility of the individual. It's like, well Are you kind of saying, I have zero responsibility? There's zero I can do to be positively contributory here? Of course you can. Right, so for example, it's totally possible to say I have a freedom of speech network and if you are engaging in threats, like for example you're Trump and you're tweeting that Mark Milley should be executed when he is the joint chief of staffs general, that's a threat of violence. That should be removed. It's totally doable to say violence has no place on this platform or threats of violence. Now, violence is illegal. Threats of violence is not, right?”

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  10. “Right. I just think that, and like, so I don't mind people criticizing me. I don't mind them criticizing my arguments. I don't mind them criticizing my choices of who I'm going to support politically, right? What I'm going to do philanthropically. I strongly prefer that those criticisms be backed with Some knowledge and intelligence and some argu good argument point of view. And I really want it to be a civil discourse.”

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  11. “But we're going to put a little box around it that says, oh, and by the way, experts disagree, here's where you can go get the facts. So you can say it, but we'll also put in in selective cases expert opinion. And I think that's like, for example, a balance of how to do freedom of speech and freedom of reach, because I do think, look, I should be able to say the world is flat. I should be able to go on and say, the world is flat. And by the way, LinkedIn wouldn't take that post off because it's like, well, it's civil. I'm just saying the world's flat. I'm out of my mind But I'm being civil. So the LinkedIn principles are not, you must say something unscientifically true. You must say something in civil.”

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  12. “And look, how do we make decisions as a society of what expertise, what truth is, as we convene groups of experts? Like in a science, we have a group of scientists review a paper before it's published. We have scientists able to reproduce things. In a jury, we have 12 people who listen to the case and make a decision. So we use groups of people as experts and different kinds of expertise for different kinds of things to make a judgment. And we should also bring in expertise now that doesn't mean that even while all the experts say that's completely wrong, you shouldn't post it. Like I loved what Twitter did pre-Elon, which is they said, hey, you compost vaccines or this evil plot by the government to control you.”

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  13. “Hilok, I am I was on the support people being able to say lab leak. Category because, by the way, I do think freedom of speech is a good thing, and part of the reason I have freedom of speech is sometimes you have a contrarian idea that should have freedom of speech. there should be”

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  14. “Because, by the way, you are more likely to have died in the lottery than have an adverse condition. That doesn't mean there aren't people who have adverse conditions. So all quality medical professionals, medical researchers agree. I am allowed, legally, on X.com to say vaccines are evil plots to control the American people to sell drugs and make drug companies profitable and blah, blah, blah. And I can say all that. And you see all that rampant on Twitter, rampant, you know, in talk radio and, you know, and all the other things. You can say that. That's a problem, right? I'm okay with people saying it. What I'm not okay with is promoting it and having it have broad reach.”

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  15. “Look, I think there are it's important to allow one of the things I think that online platforms give us the difference between freedom of speech and freedom of reach. Like, I think it's okay for people to say such thing as vaccines or evil plots to put chips in people and they give us autism. It's one hundred percent wrong, right? And every credible medical authority goes vaccines are good. And so you go, okay, a thousand people get vaccinated or call it a hundred thousand people get vaccinated and 50 of them have adverse conditions to the vaccine, right? That happens out of 100,000. But a thousand people or ten thousand people might have died otherwise That your lottery for everyone being vaccinated is a very good lottery everyone should do it.”

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  16. “Ah, well Twitter is anonymous, it allows a lot of bots. It encourages, like it says, freedom of speech. Like if you're tweeting a rape threat, that's fine. It's freedom of speech. You're allowed to do whatever you want, right? LinkedIn is you're tied to a named profile that's tied to your identity. If you reported for saying something that's frankly uncivil doesn't even have to be as bad as a rape threat, it's just uncivil. Like you're cautioned, right? It's removed and you're saying, hey, by the way, that's not for the platform. And if you keep doing that, we'll remove your ability to post, right?”

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  17. “I think that a lot of folks, like, for example, what's happening on Twitter and X is just virulent, right? It's just toxic. It's terrible. Like when I tweet anything, including, hey, I think the following thing is great entrepreneurship. I get a, oh, you evil liberal, you know, I hope you kind of fail terribly and, you know, blah, blah, blah, blah. Okay. I was tweeting about this great entrepreneurship thing, right? And that's the kind of theme in Twitterx.com. I prefer what you kind of thing you see on LinkedIn. It's like, look, you can say critical things, but you try to say critical things within the theme of, oh, well, that entrepreneurial thing, I actually don't think it's going to be as good as you think. And this is why.”

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  18. “So I gave a couple days ago here in London the Sirai Zaberlin speech and one of the lines that I used in the speech was there's competing freedoms. You could say there's the freedom of speech to say whatever I want to say. And then there's a freedom to try to offer something in civil discourse where I'm not going to get harassed by a whole bunch of antagonists. And obviously they're both good virtues and what you want is the right blend right from them.”

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  19. “Yes. And now David knows crypto very well. So he's the AI and crypto czar and the PCAS person knows crypto very well. He hasn't yet done anything in AI. Like he hasn't been mentioned as an investor or when I talk to all the AI entrepreneurs as a desired person for them to work with and so forth. So he's very smart. So I presume he knows something. But AI, I think yet TBD, what he knows and what he tweets about is anti-woke AI is the most important thing. You're like, that is not, that is not even on the top 100 of the issues around how to promote and build and navigate AI. But he's very good at crypto. He's done a bunch of good stuff there. So that'll be, and Elon obviously understands AI quite well.”

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  20. “For all entrepreneurs, right? So I think that's helpful on entrepreneurship. Now, they're going to be probably much more closed at the border and immigration is an important part of entrepreneurship. You want to be able to get the best talent from anywhere in the world. It's one of the advantages that's helped built the US. That, I think, is going to be more uneven.”

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  21. “Right. You're like, that's not the EPA. That might be the Congress Secretary or something else, the energy secretary. That's not the EPA. So there will be a reduction of regulation because we do have climate change. We're living in it and it's going to get worse. So those will be places where there will be real damage from the wrecking ball. But for entrepreneurs building new businesses, like for example I've invested in a number of fusion and fission businesses because nuclear, because that's the clean energy that we're going to need to just to bring more of the billions of people into the middle class and to try to remove carbon from the environment and so forth. And I've known the regulatory stuff is ferociously bad for that. Well, actually, in fact, I have hoped that they are going to reset that thing. And so all of a sudden, that entrepreneurship turns out to be in retrospect wise. But I think they're going to reduce regulation across the board.”

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  22. “Um fundamentally I think it's always a good time zone tourists to be a building companies so one is like you have a good idea the times now go do it yeah capital markets harder fine actually if you can get capital you get competitive differentiation from people who couldn't I mean it's like so you have to it's always like trying to figure out how to turn the negatives into positives in terms of what you're doing now I think Trump will be broadly very good for entrepreneurship because I think he's going to reduce a lot of regulation some of that regulation will have very negative consequences on the society, which you know, as a society person, I'll be concerned about like climate, like, you know, you get the new EPA person coming in, environmental protection agency, you ask him what the job is and he says, we need to drill more oil wells”

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  23. “Complaint with some of the people I'm in political opposition for is don't ever try to break the country, try to always be building the country. It doesn't matter if the person you agree with is in power or not be working towards a good collective future. And so I'll be doing all of that. And I'm hopeful for some of that from this administration.”

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  24. “Oh, yeah. Well, I think He's going to bring a wrecking ball and some of the places a wrecking ball are useful, like so, for example, if you say, hey, on regulation, you want a new regulation, replace two. That kind of refactoring is a good thing. Hey, we're going to need a bunch of energy in the future, and we're going to need good clean energy. I understand everyone doesn't like nuclear. I don't care. We're going to do nuclear. I can see a number of things that could come out that'd be very positive. And I want those things to happen. As a matter of fact, part of being an American, I'm going to try to make the next four years as great for America as I can. My precise”

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  25. “But that's the problem. You can't allow that form of neo-fascism, right? It's precisely when you feel fear. I have huge respect for Mark Cuban. When you feel fear, stand up. Because that fear that you're feeling, that's your feeling as a powerful, wealthy person. Right, and if you're not going to stand up, who is”

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  26. “Well, look, it's range, and look, I hope that it's only in the soft end of the range, like IRS audits or phone calls like Trump made saying, deny Bezos, that DOD contract because he owns the Washington Post and I don't like him, you know, that kind of stuff. I hope it's in that arena, right? Could get much worse, but I don't really want to speculate on it because I don't want to give anybody any ideas, right? But like I think it's I think I would safely win a bet that there will be political repercussions that are that are essentially undemocratic un-American.”

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  27. “I think that there is a greater than 50% chance that there will be repercussions from a misdirection and corruption of the institutions of state to respond to my having tried to help Harris get elected.”

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  28. “Look, so part of the reason why I think less people were public about it. This Cycol was because President Trump was threatening personal and political retaliation. And so you had to have a certain degree of courage to stand up. And so encourage in the public area, not just encourage in taking risks and so forth, but in the public arena for doing that And so I literally had conversations with billionaires who were like, oh, look, I really applaud what you're doing. And I think what you're doing is that the right thing. And that's for you, not for me. Right. I mean, trying to get people into it. And so I was aware because they kind of did the simple mini-max and they said, well, if Harris is elected, I won't get penalized for not having supportive. And if Trump is elected, I will get penalized. So I'm just going to stand out of it.”

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  29. “Look I they are wrong that that is a necessary correlation But I look I try to understand people I understand their perspective I disagree with it, but I understand it.”

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  30. “High wealth things as much of an upper middle class person as I can. So, for example, before I came here to do the interview, I got here a little early, so I went to the nearby Starbucks, had a cup of coffee, pull up my laptop. Was working on it. And I want human relationships that are like that. I think human relationships are really important. I feel lucky to have relationships with some people who are these really, really amazing people. But by the way, there's amazing people who are like world celebrities and there's amazing people who the world doesn't know about. I just like going through life with amazing people. And that's part of what I mean by that.”

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  31. “So it's funny, I try to never, like one of the funny things I never repost things that call me billionaire and so forth because I try to not have that identity. I am aware that it's an accurate descriptor. But it's not like the way I think of myself. I don't think of myself as Reed Hoffman billionaire. I think of myself as Reed Hoffman technologist, Reed Hoffman public intellectual, Reed Hoffman creative strategist, Reed Hoffman, et cetera. So I try to Change my life as in those directions, not in the wealth direction. Now, of course, you know, I travel around in a private plane. I own houses in several different areas of the world, you know, that kind of stuff. But I try to live a life within those.”

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  32. “And yes, everybody, myself included, does have a big ego. But my ego is you have to attach it the right way. My ego is attached to LinkedIn succeeding.”

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  33. “It's already kind of hit breakout velocity. And so you can recruit now a world-class CEO that you can work with Right. And that's what I should do. And for example, the entire time that Jeff Wiener was the CEO of LinkedIn, my primary office was immediately next door to his.”

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  34. “And one of the things that I had kind of learned is, well, that's the reason I like working with founders. That's the reason I like working with CEOs because to some degree it's like, okay, you're the talent I'm working with on this company, right? In order to do that. And so I was like, yeah, I like doing more of being a board member working with CEOs more than I like being the CEO once you get past 150 people. So that's what I should be doing. What I need to do is I need to get LinkedIn to a point where”

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  35. “and they start as a group together. So it's kind of like, okay, we're going through kind of how it works and we're integrating people into the different groups. The salespeople, the engineer, and they're going into their different groups, we're approaching it as the engine of the company. And the things that I, you're only world class, but things you're passionate about, the things I'm passionate about is like the technology strategy, the product strategy, the kind of the big idea for what you're doing there. And I love working with super high powered talent.”

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  36. “Um I had um Awareness to strengths and weaknesses like I know how to do the CEO job, right? And I think it kind of 150 people or less I'm as good as anyone else, right? Like that scale of CO job is a scale that I that operates within my strengths and weaknesses. When you start getting to call it 500 people, 1,000 people, part of the CO job ends up becoming like how do you govern the community of the company? Now it's not the only thing, but like, okay, like, you know, the kinds of things that Jeff Wiener that I learn from him on was, all right, well, you start thinking of recruiting not as you going out and individually recruiting people or helping your hiring manager recruiting people, but you think about recruiting as a general strategy for the company. And how does that general strategy work? And how do you have, like, for example, you get to this point in these scale companies where you start having onboarding days? So like, for example, new employees start at one of the onboarding days.”

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  37. “So they get paid in equity. And this is one of the things again is the first, I don't know, some hundreds of people at LinkedIn all don't need to work anymore. because their equity is enough that if they choose not to work anymore, that's totally fine.”

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  38. “When you're onboarding people and don't shy away from the facts, no, that's like in early days of LinkedIn, when we were talking to people, we'd say, by the way, this is how we work, right? We work six and a half days a week, right? We do get people home for dinner, but everyone, including Reed, is expected online working after dinner.”

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  39. “Choose what your life's about. That's fine. There's nothing that says you have to do that. And what gives you the right to tell other people that they can't do that? Like, what are you patronizing? Like, people choose their own lives. Well, that's nice Not going to happen. You have to understand the game you're playing. If you're playing an Olympics game, like someone who's trying to compete in the Olympics and swimming, they're swimming seven days a week, twelve hours a day. Right. So choose the game. And you just say, well, it's toxic. Fine. Not for you.”

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  40. “And that was a deliberate thing. We were one of the first companies that started not only serving lunch, but serving dinner. And then other, because it's the learning network you get with Silicon Valley, other companies are looking at, oh, yeah, we're going to serve dinner too.”

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  41. “Yeah, that's fine, right? On number two, you have some such intense competitive mode that people can't compete with you. Say, for example, you have some. The only thing that matters in this business is contracts with these three companies, and you have those three contracts. But absent that, that's the reason because the startups that you're, if you're in a valuable space, the startups that you're competing with we had to make the deliberate decision. Like startups we're competing with aren't going home for dinner. They're serving dinner at the office. That's what we did, PayPal. We served dinner at the office of PayPal.”

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  42. “Um Only in two circumstances one it's a small startup it's both an absence of competition that's the general one is it's so small no one's really competing with you that's fine”

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  43. “Yes, and look, that's fine. It's not that everyone has to work at startups. Working at startups, a voluntary choice. But that's the game for a startup. And so that's how we try to balance in the early days of LinkedIn. We try to balance how to be human because a third of the company had kids. And so you're like, okay, like we all have to work this way so we can't say, oh, you third, sure, you guys can go home and you're out of the office. And then call in or whatever. We'll all go for dinner and then we'll all plan on getting back to work after dinner. So you get time with your family. You get to have dinner with your kids. It's the right human thing, but we're working hard. And Saturday morning, we're working.”

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  44. “The people who think it's toxic don't understand the startup game and they're just wrong, right? The game is intense. And by the way, if you don't do that, then eventually you're out of a job.”

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  45. “Well, you have to have The nature of this thing, because you're by nature dead as a startup, work-life balance is not the startup game, right? So like when we started LinkedIn, we started with people who had families. So we said, sure, go home, have dinner with your family. Then after your dinner with family, open up your laptop and get back into the shared work experience and keep working.”

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  46. “You're not seeing the darkness that is 100% correct. And look, I respect it. I understand the burn people out, like treat them as disposable assets that when they burn out, you just jettison them. And you can be very, Elon's not the only entrepreneur who is very successful doing that, right? But, for example, on the other side, like if you go to Mark Zuckerberg and you talk to the people who work for him, they're like, that was great. That was the best working experience of my life. Of course I work with them again.”

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  47. “Not wide approach, right? LinkedIn mirrors my approach. Literally, I am referenceable. By every entrepreneur that I've ever worked with as a board member and as an investor who, you know, even ones that I've fired as CEO and so forth, those people will say he was really good to work with on these things. They may also have some critical things. There's no problem with that, right? But literally when I'm pitching an entrepreneur, it's like, call anyone that I've worked with. Because I try to work with people in a way that even when we're at a difficult moment, because I disagree with him intensely about how well they're doing or what they're doing or something else, that I'm doing it in a collaborative, constructive way. And so my goal is to work with people like anyone I want to work with, Brian Chesky.”

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  48. “Yeah, he goes hard, but he also thinks your only relevance to me is your relevance. Your only relevance to me is can you help me with my mission? And after you're done, after you can no longer help me with my mission, you're not relevant to me anymore.”

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  49. “Um he hires well. Matter of fact, you can't be a great entrepreneur and not ultimately hire well. I think some people are better hires Some people also have Like, are the kind of people that people would work for forever? Elon tends to burn people out a lot. Like there's lots of burnt out people in his wake. And when you go and talk to those people, what you hear is some people say that was the best work experience ever, and I never want to work from them again. And other people say, that was the worst work experience ever, and I never want to work from again. So they're all I never want to work for them again. Right, so you know, as kind of a dynamic, because he basically looks at them as disposable parts and, you know, go as hard as you can, right? And then afterwards, you're out. Don't care.”

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  50. “Yeah, here. Now, look, he has done repetitively amazing things. Now he pitches everything with the same level of certainty, right? Like, you know, I have this idea for online banking. I have this idea for boring tunnels under cities. I have this idea for creating a pneumatic tube for Hyperloop tubes. All of them, he has the same level of, I am 1,000% right that this is like guaranteed to be part of the future, right? And I may be the unique person to make it happen. So you have to have some discernment. But his, you know, on base batting is pretty good.”

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