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Shishir Mehrotra

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“Yeah, it's kind of like being in a time warp to like the 1980s in some ways and then a time warp into 2050 and others. You can build your factory. Behold, if you own some land and you want to build an apartment complex, they let you, and there's no NIMBY to stop you. And if you want reproductive rights, yeah, you got to get on a plane or take a bus to the state next door. Straight.”
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“I think they have tons of weed here. They just call it Delta 9. They have like variants. So when you drive down the road, it's like Delta 9, Delta 9. And you can.”
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“So everybody's got like a different take on this. I think this one will fall into. Reproductive rights, cannabis, self-driving, they're going to just, there'll be states that are very slow. I know this because they banned Airbnb in New York. Uber a really hard time in Vegas and London, and it just takes time. So it's no big deal. Are we going to get?”
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“I think, yeah, you're going to see this happen over and over again. People can do what they want in their local communities. You have to give people the ability to do what's right for their city or state, even if you don't agree with it. So, you know, I get to carry a gun on my waist here in Texas and you don't. And you live in a state where you probably don't want people carrying them. And I live in a state where people do.”
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“I mean, I think the anti stuff is waning now. The longer you stay out of politics, I think it's got a half-life. And so I think staying out of politics, you know, people will, the people who put those stickers on will, I think”
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“A year out, I think, from taking the driver out. I think the aggressive estimates are three or four months. I put it probably at a year because of regulators. And I think they'll do it in constrained, very constrained areas like Waymo is. So they'll have a wide area with a safety driver and then a much smaller area, 25% of that, where they know they can't screw up or it's a very low chance because, man, a Tesla hits something. It's not going to be good. There's a lot of people who would love to write that story of a Tesla killing a puppy, God forbid. What if it's the Tesla”
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“Lucid after bolting these things on is obviously going to just build them in. And so now you're going to have somebody like NVIDIA, a global player, who knows how to build things at scale, be able to build these and give them to any car manufacturer. Then you can have software plays like Neuro and others be able to give the software stack and then they will be able to sell those cars to Uber or to people who buy a flock of cars and they'll put them into the Uber network. They'll put them into the Lyft network. There's nothing that says I couldn't buy 10 of these cars and then maintain them at my parking lot if I had like a cafe. I take half my parking lot. I put a bunch of these cars in it and I maintain them. I clean them. They come back. They charge at my lot and I maintain the cars and I own them. But I put them into these networks to make money. And then you'll have Tesla, of course, doing their robo taxis.”
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“NVIDIA. NVIDIA is providing a cloud platform and the hardware stack for cars. So that means if Toyota or Volkswagen need hardware or the neuro cars need hardware, they don't have to think about that. They could just bolt this on to a car. Now, bolting it onto a car aesthetically doesn't look good and it doesn't scale like building cyber cabs does.”
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“Pretty straightforward. It's a fragmented market. It's a giant market. So you have geographies. You have people who are making the core technology, the sensors, the cars, and you, of course, have the network. And then you have maintaining all these cars. And so what Uber is using is they're huge network and their balance sheet to invest in many different partners. And so this NVIDIA tie up means that they will be using their driving data from the real world like Tesla does. Uber will take their driving data and give it to”
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“So I think it's going to be first for super dangerous things that nobody would ever complain because they don't want to do. But these are going to, in China, if they start taking factory jobs, that could be very dicey as well. Very dicey”
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“The Chinese will have plenty of these operating in China. And I would say they'll probably be first because they're not going to have the social constraint. They can just decide they're going to use them for certain jobs. And they'll probably decide to do them for jobs that are truly arduous or dangerous. So imagine, you know, sounds silly, but if you are fighting a fire or you had to go into a dangerous situation, these would be very good for going into dangerous situations. In fact, they have an equivalent of this, like a little robot with an arm on it. You can use for bombs, right? Oh, yes.”
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“These things should If I was working at one of these companies, I would not sell these robots. I would only sell them on consumption basis, a dollar an hour, 24 bucks a day. You want them, so it's a dollar an hour to have one. Plus, you pay for the electricity and just a dollar a day. Anything goes wrong. We'll go pick it up and swap it out at the end.”
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“Yeah, it's all electric, and these things are going to cost but a dollar a day. I always do the math on these. If it's $20,000 and you had it for 10 years, you'd have it for 3,000 days, 3,000 days. You can just very easily back of the envelope this. It's not going to be an expensive thing to own. You know, a couple of dollars a day, these things will cost ultimately.”
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“The operator is just taking a picture of it working. You know, and we'll see that in three years and then six years they'll take the driver out and you'll have a Zook's car owned by Amazon with a bunch of packages in it and a robot in it. And the doors will open and it will carry your box from Zooks and put it on your doorstep. That means it'll be free to ship things around the world or close to free. Because it's electric power.”
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“This is dumb. People will be like, I could just use this calculator while I would do that. I have a chest set right here. Why would I do that? If I want to play Dungeons and Dragons, I have it over here. Why would I play the Zork thing? And then over time, compounding technologies, memory, fidelity in this case, the actuators will get better and better, these things in three years, it's not going to be uncommon to see one of these things at an airport at a UPS store. I wouldn't be surprised if there's a driver in a Zook's likes car and the robot gets out and brings the packages out and puts them on the door and”
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“Yeah, and I don't think I saw Lon had put in the notes, does this mean there's a teleoperator walking this thing around my home? That's pretty creepy. I think the answer is no. I think the teleoperator is just to show what it's capable of now, just in terms of its movement. And eventually that'll all be done by the large language model. Know behind it, but these things, you know, a lot of the great innovations start as toys that are supposed to do like some tasks and they do them badly. The PC revolution was like, hey, boot up your PC, take 16 minutes to load this calculator or chess tutor, and you can play chess or use a calculator. And it was like.”
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“Yeah, sure. I mean, it's all over social media. It's a good looking robot. I think we had one of these at an all-in, maybe the all-in holiday special. It was on stage. Yeah, it looks pretty good. It's petite, small, I think. To not be threatening to humans if that's in fact it. It's got like cloth on top of it and It's currently teleoperated, but they show it like cleaning and loading dishes and picking up packages. So I guess they believe they're going to have this in a year for 20K. The other one that everybody seems to seems to have that's remote controlled. Chinese one that was on the Walmart site that also was 20 grand. So it seems like these are going to be able to be billed for 20 grand.”
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“Yeah, that's like one person's wealth. I'm thinking of one that raised money from multiple people. You know, like. If the American Cancer Society decided to flip and the management became wealthy because they came up with a cure for cancer and put it into a for-profit. Then the members of the American Cancer Society then went to work for the for profit. I don't know. It's just very good founding.”
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“That's a valid argument as well. The question is, then what's the largest nonprofit in the world? And what would happen if they flipped?”
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“I got to thank he owns five percent of the company, and rightfully so, if he architected the whole thing, like, but. Okay, so then how does that play into it?”
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“Sam Watman owns was like working for a nonprofit, owns no equity, but I assume he owns 5% of the new company. What does Sam Waltman own now of the company?”
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“And maybe this exists in the world. I'm sure other people have tried similar things, but we all donate our money into a nonprofit. That nonprofit becomes an accelerator. Like let's say I wanted to do this for the launch accelerator and found a university. I make Founder University a nonprofit and I get tax write-offs by donating to it. And then I decide there's going to be an entity that invests in them. That's owned partially by the nonprofit. And I raised a bunch of money for that nonprofit from other individuals, but then I own the spin out. That's where I think it starts to feel like really conflicted party transactions.”
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“Guess the question would be Is this fair to taxpayers? And is this like a tax loophole that's unfair? So if I were to donate $50 million to a nonprofit, And then that nonprofit and the employees and the board all got equity in this new company. Then I was able to get a tax write-off for that donation. And then I would double dip by having equity in the new company at some point and become a billionaire. So that's, I think, where people would be wondering, should that be allowed? So if I were to give you an example.”
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“IRS was like, this doesn't make any sense. You're a nonprofit making all this money, aren't you supposed to deploy it? So they start hiring more people, the paying extraordinary salaries, doing whatever they can to come up with new projects to do. And they came up with this structure of a for-profit owned by a nonprofit.”
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“What does this mean for corporate governance and corporate structures? There was another organization that I think laid the groundwork for this, and I believe the lawyers who did this also did open AI's work, which was the Mozilla Foundation. Netscape made an open source foundation, AOL, which owned Netscape, the original browser, put Mosaic was the original, and then there was Netscape, the commercial one. They put all the IP into this foundation. The foundation started making so much money because the Firefox browser had a search deal with Google and they were making tens of or hundreds of millions of dollars. And so the”
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“Yeah, it's 10X right now and pretty clear. It could get to 2 trillion, it could get to a trillion, a trillion five. So this could be a 2030x background, a big number.”
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“Billion dollars. Yeah, they've always had like 50 to 100 billion laying around in cash, and they throw off obviously tens of billions and profits every year. So this is not a de minimis amount. And then how much did they put into OpenAI? It's the second number in terms of Microsoft investment in OpenAI. Let's take a look at that. How much have they invested to date?”
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“Of it and this thing becomes worth, you know, gets into the trillion dollar club or the two trillion dollar club. Is that meaningful if they were to sell all their shares and they would make $270 billion? How much cash does Microsoft have on hand right now? I think they're always sitting on $50 or $100 billion. But this could be a windfall for them. I'm not sure how much they paid for that equity. It was tens of billions. I think they were $20 billion in. I'm not sure the number there. So I guess those are the two numbers you need to see to understand how great of a move this was by Satya Nadella. And I do believe Bill Gates said it wasn't worth doing. Yeah, he said.”
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“Yeah, I can't believe they got it done. Apparently, the Attorney General is in Delaware and California gave them the go ahead. The fact that it's a benefit corporation means nothing just so people know benefit corporation is just like a fancy label put on top of a for-profit entity. And it sounds like it's a nonprofit public benefit corporation just means you have to state the purpose for this organization to exist. And then when you make decisions as a board, you have to include that in your decision making process. In other words, the mission of the company. So if the mission is to provide open source AI for everybody, which it no longer is, they would have to take that into account when they were deciding to go public or hire somebody or fire somebody. We're just making big corporate level decisions. And so, but if Microsoft owns 27%”
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“Yeah, I think they have a lot of cleanup work to do there, and I saw yesterday or two days ago that they got permission from the California Attorney General to do their big flip.”
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“Yeah, at some point, people have bought enough shares in that company. They're going to want to wait and see if the revenue can catch up. So if they went from $4 or $5 billion last year to $12 this year, you know, and they're doubling revenue, well, doubling revenue from $12 to $24, and then from $24 to $48, and then from $48 to $100, it's not actually enough.”
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“Before we have any revenue. And this is why I think the companies that could make a case to be more involved here are the ones who already have money printing machines. Because once the sovereign wealth funds, once NVIDIA stops investing in OpenAI, once, you know,”
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“Well, I mean, in the Trump case, 80 billion of it seems to have shown up for these nuclear reactors. So, yeah, maybe half shows up. So I think, yeah, maybe in his case of the 1.4 trillion, it's 400 billion, but I don't think it's going to be more than that. That seems like a, it seems like a marketing slash competitor Syops to me. It feels like more of a psyops to say you're spending all that much. And that's your plan so that other people don't try. That's directed at Zuckerberg or it's directed at XAI or it's directed at Microsoft or Apple. Like we're lunatics. We're going to spend money.”
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“Yeah, so it's pretty rich, actually. It's double the rest of the market. So it's pretty rich, but it's still high growth. If you look at the revenue chart and their revenue growth, it's pretty extraordinary how they're growing. And they have years of orders in that order book. I think everything is pinned off of open AI right now. Can open AI get to some level of revenue that makes logical sense for this buildout. You can't spend a trillion dollars and make $100 billion. That doesn't work. You could spend $100 billion and make a trillion. Can't spend a trillion and make $100 billion, and they're making whatever $15 billion. I'm not sure exactly where it's at now, the runway, $12, $15 billion. $13 billion.”
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“You have governments, you have different government agencies even, like not just one government, like UAE buying a bunch or China buying a bunch, but you have this specific group of intelligence, you know, the education group, whatever. They're going to buy $100,000 of these, 50,000 of these. There will be competition and at some point the margin will be eroded away, like happens in almost every business. And then the question is, can they have such an elite product that they can command a decent market? And the other fear people have is the overbuild. Those are rational fears to have. But if you look at the price earnings ratio, there's still room for that company to grow is I think the consensus, which is why it keeps growing”
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“You know, if you look at the price earning ratio of NVIDIA, it is reasonable, I think 25 to 34 looking based on their projections of where they're going. So it's not a situation where you have to suspend disbelief like Palantir and it's got a extraordinary price earnings ratio or Tesla right now where you're like, well, Optimists and self-driving are going to dwarf the car business, which makes total sense logically. But this is one where, listen, they sell a product at a high margin. People need them and there's a global market for this product. And it's hitting on all cylinders. They can't make enough of them and there aren't, there's a very diverse group of buyers for this. You have cloud providers.”
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“It is really great to see how How he thinks about the brand and it takes a certain fearlessness to say, yeah, we need to, we got this incredible brand that 40 million people are using, but that brand is a feature of this bigger vision now. Let's keep going, you know, let's keep turning over the cards and see where this hand leads us. What else do we have in the talking?”
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“I just love these three products, and it just happens to be that I loved two of them, and then they bought my favorite products.”
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“Yeah, the thing I have found with young people, I don't know if you have a training program if you hire people out of school, but we do. And it really does help with that high bandwidth in person culture, at least at a venture firm investing in companies, to be in person, to have these discussions, you know, to have the let's go walk for a coffee and talk about this startup or this decision we're making. Did we make the right decision to not take our pro rata or not? For young folks, I think, you know, first five, ten years in the workforce, getting in person is just so essential for the mentorship. And that's, I think that might be where this kind of changes is when you have kids or you're further along in your career and you have your choice of where to work. Hey, listen, everybody go check out superhuman.com and make sure you're using Grammarly. And code is the sleeper hit if you want to be super productive. It's not an ad.”
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“Dara moved it from five years to eight. I think he was maybe having inherited a workforce, maybe a workforce that got bloated. He wanted to maybe trim back all these entitlements and get people back to an office. You believe in in-office or remote? What's your take on that?”
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“A character. Hey, chime in on the big debate of the moment, which is we're seeing places like Amazon, UPS, maybe some big layoffs on all sides of the business, white collar, blue-collar. And then people talking about massive efficiency gains. So obviously companies are doing more with less internally and having run companies and worked at these companies. What are you seeing game on the field-wise? the case where it's easier for you to empower your team with tools first and then hire second how do you think about this static team size that everybody seems to be deploying in the world”
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“All right, listen, continued success. I'm a shareholder via my super. Human share, so I am rooting for you the logo is great, by the way, over your right shoulder, people who are watching can see the logo. And I really love what you do with the logo because it's a person. But it's also the navigation. Yeah, it's like one of those little arrows that's like the cursor, but with the head on it and it kind of points you in the right direction of what to do next. So how much does it cost to do this kind of like branding madness? You spend 100 grand digits. We do a lot of it. We did a lot.”
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“Workers, yeah, basically, so things that make sure that people don't, I don't know, download a database or use their computer for something they're not supposed to. But these things also, and I talk to one of the providers, like, could it suggest to people There's some way for it Know kind of make you aware that oh, you work in IBM's office in Albany, you really should be talking to the people in Fort Lauderdale because they're doing something where they're doing an integration with a trade organization and they probably would have the right answers for you. Started to think about that.”
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“But there's such an awesome, I guess there's two levels to this there's the awesomeness of having the whole organization flowing and management understanding what's happening in the organization. So if you live in a non-siloed organization with an open floor plan and everybody hears everything and everything's transparent, you know, like a Netflix or an Amazon, a modern company might be pretty upfront about those things. Maybe people don't care about it as much in a siloed organization. Maybe people are very concerned about that. But there is a whole other category of software that I feel like you're going to collide with, which is employee management software or optimization software, workforce analytics software is...”
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“Here's a fun question from Andre. What do you think about training users to write in the style of a specific thinker like Duskiewski or Kant? Is it Kant or Kant? Through sentence suggestions with LLMs, it's now feasible. What do you think about helping people? Yeah, there's actually before Grammarly, there was... Write like Hemingway. There was like a Hemingway app that was like, hey, here's how to write like Hemingway. Use like five word sentences, which can get a little annoying.”
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“But we got to standardize on something here. Then I guess the last piece, the last tower to fall for you is to start thinking about Zoom or huddles on Slack and then Slack or Teams itself. You're building this team product. I was always talking to Raul about when would we get a calendar and Zoom meetings and Slack inside of Super Human, we got the calendar, but we don't have audio video conferencing nor do we have, you know, messaging and a Slack-like competitor. What are your thoughts on those last two?”
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“It looks like I'm spending $2,000 a month, 24 grand a year on all three of these. Maybe I save a little bit. That's all good. Reward your loyal customers. Yeah, right now I had a air traffic control issue. I would pop on a Zoom or on a podcast. Granola would say, I'll record. Zoom would say, I'm recording. And then Notion launched their own recorder and was like. I can't pay for three different products just because one third likes the interface. If you really want to pay for it, pay for it yourself.”
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“What do you think about these automatic transcribers for Zoom calls, et cetera? You don't have one in the current offering, I don't think.”
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“What I love about this is right now I'm playing three different people in your organization. I pay for superhuman. I pay for Grammarly and I pay for Coda. Happy to do so. It's thousands of dollars a year each, but I get plenty of value for those dollars. But here you can get super human free with a little bit of coda and go and grammarly. You can pay for Pro, and that's only $12 a month. And you get Grammarly Coda and Go, or you can get business, and I guess I get everything there. And now, so this is like a really interesting offering because I don't know if I'm going to save money or not. If somebody's paying for all three, do I save money or do I net out? You'll definitely save money.”
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“Those kind of parallel universes kind of speak to what you're doing with agents as well because the agent can then, it would know, oh, in the coded database, the primary contact for that startup is this person. Here they are in your hubspot or here they are in your sales force. And this is what everybody wants”
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