tags: #public #lessons #talks #chamath #canada
- Based on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMotykw0SIk
- Chamath is a Sri Lankan born entreprenuer who emigrated to Canada when he was 6 and is now a billionare.
- Copy the shit out of smart people since chances that you are not a fucking genius
- There are 150 people, all most men who run the world.
- Not the tech entreprenuers. Not politicians (puppets)
- World is setup for them
- You cant beat them. Join them.
- Take the capital and use it make your world view
- 2045 ambition
- Affect 1/4th of world population
- Trillion dollars
- How?
- Technological
- Business that can stand the test out of time.
- They compound slowly for decades
- Everyone gives up.
- Story
- Be like fucking athletes, david blaine
- Started a diabetes startup
- Took 7 years to even see some result
- But there would be some kid out there who family would be less dysfunctional.
- Fail fast business are about manipulating your pyscology
- Short term dopamine feedback loops are distroying socities
- Creates tension
- Leaves you empty and vacant
- Vicuous cycyle
- Its 2 billion
- He and his family don’t use Facebook.
- No you are not fucking genius. You are also programmed by these apps.
- Get the fucking money and use the money to change the views.
- Economics incetives drive the population to behave and unpredictable ways.
- Don’t be a sellout.
- Your worldview doesn’t matter if you don’t have capital.
- The world most sucesfull people built a network of influence using capital and it compounds over decades.
- Koch brothers #todo read more about Koch brothers
- Venture is basically a bunch of soulless cowards.
- VCs don’t allocate funds properly.
- People thought in 2007 AWS is a joke.
- Here is things that you want to build a business and we will abstract it for you like AWS did.
- Social Capital focuses on that
- Anybody who says they know what they knowing is they are fucking lying.
- Chamath wants the fucking money.
- I don’t know is so powerful.
- Changing your mind so fucking powerful.
- Just find the right answer
- Jeff Bezos is the man
- You should have the courage to say you haven’t figured out in 5 years
- I would love to compound in 15% a year
- Its a lot of money over time
- Stay the fuck out of social apps
- You have one brain.
- You are training your brain unknowingly
- Will result you in short term focused.
- Poker is a microcasam of life
- You starting point can be fantastic or not fantastic.
- It’s upto you to do the best with it.
- Value is in top of the stack at this time
- The world was defined by Intel in middle 20th century
- Someone will build a new stack that will enable machine learning and AI like Intel did.
- Its a 30 year process