When Steve Jobs died, we like forgot how to market. And then there was this low. And then Elon came back with this incredible Jobsie and style marketing. And now everybody's adopted it. And marketing is cool again. It could be that the actual innovation of Silicon Valley is the greatest fucking marketing in the world. It's not that we're better at marketing. It's that we have the megaphone's to be good at marketing because marketing is only digital these days. Well, hello friends. Welcome to more or less. Pre-thanks giving edition. Hey, Jess. How's everyone doing? Good. I was working today. And then for the last 30 minutes, I was working on our holiday cards.
And I didn't have you guys played with the Canva integration with GPT. It's actually so good. I made my holiday cards in minutes. I'm just psyched because I heard from a bunch of listeners today, which this never happens consistently. But I learned about a bunch of listeners this morning that I'm just giving a shout out to. We've got some great people in Brooklyn. I didn't know Ryan Hoover listens every week. We've got all kinds of good people listening. Hi, Ryan Hoover. Hey, Ryan. No pressure, folks, but are historically this episode, Time to Thin Exgiving Week, is one of our best. I got to say, I don't know if you remember the Altman years.
This little Sam tell us. And Sam, hello from the Surfshack. I see you've traded in the pool house. I mean, I got to be the shack at all times. Got a lot of different types of houses. A house would be generous for this structure. We like structure. It's just a structure. We like structures. Well, they both have sonnism. So that connects them. I mean, come on. I've talked about my Surfshack before. I mean, it's a work of art. We don't have to go into it, but it is. No, I just, I remember when we was in two years ago, we were in bulliness doing our thing. Sorry, Wes Moran, we're supposed to call it anyway.
And this was like the Altman got kicked out of Open AI back in. That was a fun, that was fun. I remember that. That was really fun. That was it. And I think that just set off this pattern of amazing Thanksgiving week episodes, just whenever and dying to tune in. But yeah, so Brett, let's do our check-in. So you made a GPT, are you made your holiday card with Canva and GPT? Well, I always do a little twist on our Moran holiday card. And I'm not going to give away. Last year was Where's Waldo, right? I was searching for you guys.
Yeah. Right. But I used Fiverr last year to have this illustrator animate us hidden into this huge Christmas scene. And that was really fun. That is pretty symbolic. You replaced the freelance animator with the AI. No, no. I mean, I actually paid someone last year. They just were like in the Philippines. No, I know. But this year you didn't have to pay anyone. Yeah. And the point is that the only labor is cutting out as the Philippines labor. Like that's used as suffering. Oh, okay. This is going worse than I thought. Brains hasn't paid an American to do work for her in ages. I paid Sam Altman. Come on, guys.
But did you like, is you a free version? I mean, I paid 200 bucks a month for that shit. Maybe Claire, you actually cost Sam Altman money. He didn't pay Sam Altman. I did do a lot of brainstorming. He just underwrote part of your holiday cards, actually. It's really unclear what you can slice and dice. I find angels in a million ways to make a million arguments. So I'm sure there's some accounting calculation that shows he didn't, you didn't cost them money. But all I'm saying though is I feel a little bit bad for like minted and shutter fly in all these companies that have these amazing templates that people use for their holiday cards.
And I use minted. But to change to Canva this year, Ala Chat GPT was like an anomaly for me. So I'm curious how much share those companies are going to lose for the holidays this year. Just saying. Well, the thing I was amazed by is I don't understand how holiday cards are made. And I asked Jess, you were like, who do you want to send the holiday cards to? And you sent me like a 600 line spreadsheet with everyone's addresses, which answered a question room which is like, where do people live?
Like I had no idea you were keeping this for years. And I was actually quite impressed with it. This is what the women of the households do. I have to update this list every year and it's so annoying because I had to literally go through it and be like, oh, wait, I think those people might have moved. And then I have to figure out how to reach out to them. And I'm sure Jess does this too. I wait for the bounce back email. I wait for the bounce back card. And then I reach out to them. Why hasn't this part of the like why hasn't this been lost to the internet? It's been shot.
Everyone has tried this so many times. And it's one of those classic problems that really shouldn't be a problem and any product person looks at it like this is a ridiculous state of affairs. But no one cares enough to fix it is like the upshot and like consistent way, right? But at your right date, like from a first principles perspective, it's completely ridiculous that like addresses are not like you can't just like make an API call that turns an email into an e-tune to address and hit set. Well there ever be a future where we have like a authenticated social graph where my agent can talk to your agent. No, but this is never going to happen.
This is what Sam and I are talking about. I mean, the sheer number of identity projects between all of us, it's like ridiculous. It's just an impossible problem. My favorite is I've owned the domain openpreferences.com for like 20 years, right? Because you think about like it's like it's a classic thing. It's like always you are like, I wait like dietary, you're like, I don't want to answer any of these shit. It's all the same questions. One repository of all of my preferences on everything and never and just like shit. And the answer is no, you know you can't.
Why won't your agent have this for you, Sam? Like isn't this where the world's going? Because it just doesn't, it's just like no one gets, it doesn't care enough. It's like it's from a first principle perspective, absolutely, which is why we all own versions of this domain a thousand times over. And like it's obvious. And from a practical perspective, anyone who would care to work on this has higher leverage more interesting things to work on. And it's just not that important.
It's like, yeah, you're just going to tell you again that like I'm whatever my size and weight is, deal with it. And even if you're a massively resourced company and you choose to work on it, you still don't solve it. That's what the really crazy thing is. But you do through like Gemini and GPT is what I'm saying. No. Why? This was like the entire identity focus of Facebook for like 20 years. I know, but that was so long ago where I didn't know era Dave. This is the future. There is no question that every few years you have to rebuild everything and realize the same things again about how the things play out.
But yeah, whatever, maybe this time to finally build it again. Guys, I'm so bored. I just checking the circle port. So I just want everyone to know that's where I am in this conversation. But no, what are your surf preferences? And that's why it will never be built because it's too fucking boring, even though it's obvious. It just switched the Friday forecast on me, which I don't appreciate because I'm kind of making plans based on it. But anyway, OK, Brett, I wish you I know you're going to have an awesome holiday card.
I was actually arrived early, put very little thought into it. I took the picture in July. I was like, this works. And we're go. So. Well, I will say what you guys are going to be very excited about is my God. Do I have a holiday? Yes for you. Jessica, proofread it. No, I did not proofread this. Jessica read it. It was like, I read it. And I said, put that in Gemini. Is it AI's flop? Sam. It's so good. It's so good. It is, it is, it is our, we wrote a book, our guide to etiquette.
It's fabulous. It's awesome. You will get it at our holiday party. And it's going into wide release. Jessica, I made sure she read it before we sent it to Prince because even I caught one or two things in it that I'm like, if I'm going to cancel over that. And so I want to make sure that we weren't going to get hardcore canceled. No, well, I, here's the problem, Dave. I don't care what is on the internet because you can always recall it. There is a thing about getting canceled in Prince that you can't like take back, right?
Like it's a little harder to like, oh, like that is the wrong gender role for that character. Let's just flip it. You know, it's on the internet versus whatever. Oh, you wanted that level of reading. Did you not read it that way? Because like that's what I was worried about. I had to correct one or two of our comics, but I'm like, even I think that's not the correct tone to be taking. Well, good thing I like my friends canceled. Oh, nice. That's a Taylor Swift reference. Sam. Anyway, the book is amazing.
You're going to love it. It's going to be a wide release. More or less listeners, I will eventually post a link where you can get a copy either by financial eventors team member or by buying it using American dollars. But it's awesome. What? No, USD. I'm giving some crypto. There still isn't like a really wildly. There isn't like an easy way that I know of to like do that, which says something. It says something. It says something like crypto number go down right now. No, crypto number five.
Number five. Crypto number down. Crypto number up. Crypto number. It's just a number. What's it a number? Let's start. We've got. So we have a pretty despite the dawn of the holiday week. There's a lot of news. And I think I try and mix up the topics a little. We all try to. But I got to say I think today's looking like crypto, open AI and Google. That's all I got. These are what else is there? Wait, the Genesis act. We don't want to talk about that. Oh, yeah, Brad, you want to start by talking about the Genesis act. What about GROC? I thought you wanted to talk about GROC. Oh, right. And X. There's just so much news. I forgot. Okay. Great. Why don't you kick us off with a what is the Genesis act? Well, is the Genesis act new or old? It's not an act. It's called Genesis mission. Genesis mission. Well, the Genesis act was was created in July. And the Genesis mission was created a couple days ago. Waiter, these are related. Okay. I'm not following. You need to unpack this. I was wondering why it was called Genesis mission. It's the strangest name. I thought that Genesis story was written 4500 years ago. What are we talking about?
All right. Trump signed an executive order yesterday, which was. All the Genesis mission is a lot like the Manhattan project. He is calling a national effort to accelerate scientific discovering innovation using AI. So we are going to build a shared platform with scientific data leveraging all of our national laboratories and research institutions at universities for supercomputers and expertise and focus on national challenges, including American energy dominance, advancing scientific discovery and national security. Yeah. So here, this is all in the Department of Energy. So this is entirely focused on scientific discovery related to nuclear quantum, you know, that realm. The DOE is amazing. If you guys have read, there's a great book about the DOE and how crazy it is. Most people don't understand just how crazy the DOE is. And they don't, I don't even think they understand what it is. I mean, I don't even really understand what it is. And I even read the book on it. I mean, that's the whole point of the DOE is it's like this very shadowy, but very powerful organization, which by the way, we should go into conspiracy corner for some small part of this podcast because a new UFO documentary just released. Oh, my goodness. There's an amazing book called Area 51 and Uncensored History of Top Secret Military Base. Dave, who you read this book? It's fabulous.
Yeah, I read it at your house. It's a great book. Anyway, there's a whole section about how powerful and unknown the DOE is. Oh, yeah. The DOE was so just to give everybody a, the DOE was created during the Manhattan Project or directly after. It was related to atomic energy and the entire management development, scientific effort around that and the ongoing matrix of activities. It is the Manhattan. I'm going to get this wrong. The whole thing is, the DOE is the Manhattan Project. It's just kept changing names. And like there's all these like special carve outs where they get to do things that are completely like inaccessible to the rest of the government. But it is like, and what happens is every time there's a scandal, they just rename it and it continues. That's basically the upshot, right? Exactly. And that one of the more interesting things is they have all these levels of top secret classification that exists outside of the realm of all of the rest of the government's classifications. And so it's frequently used to keep many things secret that otherwise would be accessible.
Britt, do you want to, it seems like you have a reaction to this Genesis thing. What's coming up for you? Well, so last week Trump posted the Saudi crown prince, right? And then I guess he had committed a trillion dollars from the Arab nations. And now Trump signed an executive order. Guys, isn't it me or is it a trillion? Are we so like, inoculated to a trillion dollars now? I don't even know what trillions are anymore. Yeah, what comes after trillions? Anyway, I don't know. I just think that's relevant because we're making an even bigger effort to be the weeder in the world. I can't wait to see if someone announces some sort of funding for a quintillion dollars. Definitely. Saudi first, right? My bet is Sam Alman. My bet is Sam Alman. I'm going to need 15 quintillion dollars. I just back to the Genesis act like, or Genesis plan or my mission. I mean, innovation is great. Yeah, innovation. I think, and sure, there are national security reasons to stay ahead. That makes sense to me. But it's also completely true that the US and China are one is not going to best the other in this war.
I just don't, there's just no doubt. I made this. Doesn't that depend on your ideology? Well, I mean, just in terms of, I was just referring to in terms of technical prowess, right? Like, I wasn't, that wasn't a political statement. That was the like, well, I know, but I'm saying ideologically in, in technical, land, there are a bunch of people who either believe that we're racing towards some sort of AI singularity where when you hit this point, you win and all everyone else loses, it's completely zero sum. Yeah, I don't believe that.
Yeah, so that's what I'm saying is there's a whole ideology in the valley. I mean, everywhere around the valley right now that like this is the truth that there, it's 100% zero sum and whoever gets their first to super, super intelligence. Because everyone watched the most recent Tom Cruise Mission Impossible movie, right? Like it's like all the same thing, but it's just a reason to have a race, right?
I think part of the thing is like, people want reasons to have a zero sum race because they know what the fun part of that zero sum races are. You could do whatever you want, right? Like if all the stakes, if you basically have a narrative where there's some point or something you achieve that is the end of the race, then like nothing else matters and that's really fun, right? Because like you can just do anything whereas the reality is the more dirty real version, but you actually see out like Ukraine, Russia, like real conflict, friction, full world, is like, that's not how it works and it is kind of dirty and you don't get to just do whatever you want for the sake of a zero sum outcome.
Rich brings us back to the Department of Energy, which is we've been looking for a Manhattan project ever since the Manhattan project. And so here we are giving a Manhattan project back to the Manhattan project. But there are so many problems with that analogy. Like one, the technology is literally bunkered away and in the brains of like six people. Here the technology is literally open source. I mean, I don't know how many atomic. You're saying in the Manhattan project.
Yeah. And now the technology, like, you know, these models are neck and neck and it's sort of the nature of the technology itself, right? I mean, I'm not saying that you can't have an advantage, but people were kind of neck and neck on nuclear technology. The Germans took a wrong turn and like I think that it was an open source. Oh, definitely not. But I'm saying there was like a highly competitive landscape to get there first. And the Germans like probably should have and they screwed up, right? And like, and then the Americans got there.
And everyone will look at that. Like that was a zero sum game. It played out and it had massive world complications. Now what happened? What happened within a few years? What happened in a few years is that the Russians stole it. Everyone's the British, everyone stole it, right? From the Manhattan project and you end up with this kind of like, you know, multi-nation kind of relative balance of power again, right? So I don't know. It's like, I think the thing is like it's it's almost like too intellectual to think about which version of the world this is. I think people, the zero sum game of like race to AGI.
The question is whether that's like the right analogy, but it's a good story either way, right? Well, I've noticed I heard Eric Schmidt say this privately and then I looked it up and he said it publicly because I and so I can repeat it. But he refers to this as the San Francisco consensus. And he and it and again, he's now said this multiple times. Global macrogeopolitical way to refer to things. I mean, it's such a Schmidt Schmidt, and Schmidt, and Schmidt, and yeah, that's like when people refer for the global south or these sort of, you know, Davosian.
I agree. But consensus is a great word for that. But to be clear, he is skeptical of it. He is skeptical of it. Yeah. Is it really this San Francisco consensus? Well, this is what he says. I don't know. I'm in a search chat. And he talks to more people about this than I do. So what's the search chat consensus? What's the West Marin consensus?
I do feel like we're talking about consensus and like Genesis missions. I do think it's time, guys. We need to like plan to flag and define something. Don't you think people are really good at branding? I actually, in some ways, in some ways, I feel like the real era here is like, I think the California and Silicon Valley has gotten unbelievably good at marketing. Right. And they're like, what's really changed in the last few years? It's just incredible marketing.
Right. And like, there's a whole, I think there is a San Francisco consensus of marketing, right? That Elon, I think, is a major pioneer of this extremely effective. Yeah. Let's go think some problems for a free independent and accurate media. I think you can go back further, Sam. And you could say that when Steve Jobs died, we like forgot how to market. And then there was this low. And then Elon came back with this incredible Jobsie and style marketing. And now everybody's adopted it. And marketing is cool again. It could be that the actual innovation of Silicon Valley is the greatest fucking marketing in the world.
But to be clear, what you're talking about in Silicon Valley, getting better at marketing is just saying what Silicon Valley hopes to be true or what's people to believe and saying it enough times. Guys, it's not that we're better at marketing is that we have the megaphone's to be good at marketing. Marketing is only digital these days. And like Elon owns one of the biggest channels for distribution and Zach owns one of the biggest channels for distribution. Sam, who's crushing marketing and tech land? Every CEO of every one of these companies who has the biggest megaphone.
So just because you have a big megaphone doesn't mean you use it well. So who's who's winning? Well, I would argue like the Mag 7 is like crushing marketing right now because they have the biggest megaphone. The Mag 7 is crushing marketing. Okay. Yeah. And video is crushing marketing. Sam Altman's crushing marketing like the private, you know, Sequoia and as you can see, is crushing marketing like I would just say that like this is this maybe this is the real San Francisco consensus is like there's a set of people have like figured out marketing.
And you know what that means? You get all the resources and all the smart people come to the North Bay and all the money. And then you get all the resources. But there's are the people with all the resources. Tell me someone who doesn't have resources that's crushing marketing. No, but that's the thing you wouldn't you if you didn't have if you if in some ways, if you don't have the resources, you're bad at marketing by definition. I know. Here's what's happening. I just figured it out guys. Thank goodness.
No. I think what's happening is everyone's finding their tribes. So you're finding more messaging that you're like a men to, but it doesn't mean that the marketing is inherently good or bad. People are just going after their tribes. Tham believes all of his marketing is good. For my tribe, Jess, you're making my point, which is there is no San Francisco consensus. There is a San Francisco consensus about the like a I singularity, but it's not everyone's no, I agree.
I agree. I think that's true. But it's not you if you say a it doesn't pick out a headline. So Schmidt has say the first of all, calling something a concept, it sounds like it says incredible marketing, right? So you're like, I'm just asserting it's the consensus. It's great. You know, Eric Schmidt has always been good at a talking point. So he's a great, he's a great marketer. Is there anything that's a consensus in 2025? But that's why you just say the consensus to make it a consensus.
Well, which is also is why we think everyone's good at marketing because if people just say things that we like, we listen to them more and then we think they've nailed marketing. But Jess, you just made the key point, which is creator fund oriented. It's everything we're seeing, right? This is an era of cults and tribes, right? Where you want super fucking core committed group of fail-anks of people that are your true believer followers.
And what you, if you think about it, if last generation marketing was about mass, is that getting convincing everyone in America that like, you know, brown here was cool through like magazines and you had no targeting. The entire story of our era right now is screw that, right? It's go find your super deep tribe and there can be lots of them. And they fight with each other and they overlap. But being good at marketing means you have an army behind you, right?
And you that means you have capital and customers and you pay them in stock go up and all the things which again, you gotta get Elon credit. He, I've always said this and I mean it to rocket totally and also not is like, he's not a great technologist. He is the greatest marketer of our generation, right? And that means he gets all the capital and the people and the things. He's also gotten rockets. You're sure the best marketer maybe of all time.
What you need for rockets is a ton of money and rope, right? And then people who like, we're like, I only have one option if I care about the stuff because like, by the way, last year we'll love rockets, which is like, I gotta go work for you on like, it's an incredible plan. You know, Blue Origin landed its rocket. It was, you know, on a barge. So I thought that was pretty, pretty interesting. Right. They're like the Russians. They like the ones who steal the nuclear product. And it also says negatively. It's like once it's proven, it's like the, it's the four minute mile. Once you prove you can do it, you're going to be able to shave some people out of the thing that did it and redo it. That's not that hard. It's hard. But like if you have $200 billion a play with you're going to get it done.
But don't you think also, I, so I am still caught. It is so interesting to me how hard Google the valley, the markets, everyone has swung in the last 10 days. I'm so sad. I didn't have anybody on this. I know Sam. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Again, every episode. Jess, I'm glad you brought this up because I had a chart ready for this. Thank God, Dave. Someone who keeps me honest. Which by the way, it has another great concept in it, which is the Google Complex versus the OpenAI Complex. Complex. Complex is not as cool as a consensus, but still pretty good. I agree. You kind of want both.
So like this is amazing. This is the, the difference in price performance between the Google Complex and the Open AI Complex. Co-2 put this out like two hours ago. Dave, explain what you're seeing for those that are only listening. There's just two lines. The, you know, the performance of the Google Complex, which is Google Broadcom, the momentum TTM technologies, and then the OpenAI Complex, which is Nvidia, Softbank, Oracle, AMD, Microsoft, CoreWeave, etc. So it's percent increase. It's one year price performance.
Yeah. And it's tracking. It's sort of through the first half of the year through May are, are pretty in concert. Then they both start rising through August and then they diverge. They've urged rapidly within the last two weeks. And then the last two weeks. Yeah. Well, here. So this is relevant. You know, there's been a lot of speculation. We've talked about how Google's TPUs are going to challenge Nvidia and my colleagues at the information. We wrote a story very recently that had two new data points. One meta is considering and in very serious talks, there were billions of dollars, spending billions of dollars on TPUs in a future deal. And then there's also we had new details about pitches, Google's making to banks, about using them.
And what's different about this is you wouldn't be accessing them through Google's infrastructure and Google Cloud. These would be models where you're selling or renting to other data centers more directly competitive. And you know, there's been a lot of chatter about this. But I think the story was the first to show two new data points really on how Google plans to get these to market in a different way. And I don't know if you guys saw this, but a day or a couple hours afterwards in video, tweeted out speaking of marketing a statement. And you're delighted by Google's success. They made great advances in AI and we continue to supply to Google.
Nvidia is a generation ahead of the industry. It's the only platform that runs every model and does it everywhere computing is done. Nvidia offers greater performance, versatility and fungibility than ASICs, which are designed for specific AI frameworks or functions. You know that's not great marketing. I was going to say great or not great. I saw a tweet. Everyone's tweeting like, isn't video okay? Well, if that were Elon or Sam Altman, they would just be like, yeah, Google thinks it's winning, but we're going to be the real winners here. Like they would just say something ridiculous. They'd be like two shades. Stay tuned.
Yeah, exactly. But they're being classy with their PR. That's their first mistake or old school. I don't know. Is it classy or just old school? Look, you know what it sounds like? It sounds like there's two ways in versions of the world. The pre-Trumpian era, what you'd say is actually if you're in video, you kind of need one or two legit serious competitors. You're going to get antics trusted. Right? And so you're like, okay, like I actually want someone to fast follow me pretty closely so that I can point to them and be like, see, I'm not a monopoly.
Right? And so like that would be like the old way of thinking. Right? I think the new way of thinking is they're like, I don't know. They're like, they need new marketing people because like, that's clearly not the story. Now look, the interesting thing is most, my understanding is like a lot of companies are already using TPUs as well through Google. Like a lot of the next, it's not like this isn't like a new, yeah. So like it's a change in business strategy or model from the say you can just like, but it's like, that's the thing is like everyone's like, Google is already very deeply in the game here and people are used to using TPUs, right?
Well, I also think that you got to caveat this a little bit in that they're familiar with some aspects of them. But not the old problem again of the software stack and CUDA and video. So and data centers have different designs. So this isn't like a, you flip a switch, but we reported that Google thinks it can get 10% of in video's business revenue. Right. Which means they actually think they can get 20% and they're going to undershoot it. It's what they actually think.
So it's a real, I just love, I mean, I love trying to analyze companies PR particularly because they deal with us one way and then you know, six hours later, they deal with the public another way. And part of me is like, okay, speak your mind of video, tell your story, put your statement out there. You should have a better story. It's like their meme game is weak. They didn't need to have meme game sound. Like they were winning the product race up until like two weeks ago.
This is what happens when you're too far ahead, you get lazy and you know, your weapons are not refined. I don't think they're lazy. Jensen is the most paranoid CEO of all of them, which is saying a lot. It's like, look, if you're if your marketing team has been like, I don't need to shift the last two years because like the product sells itself, then like, by like you get lazy, you just you don't have the war muscle.
这就是当你领先太多时可能发生的事情:你会变得懒散,而且你的武器(产品)也不够精炼。我并不认为他们懒惰。要知道,Jensen 是所有 CEO 中最有戒心的人,这已经说明了很多问题。就好比说,如果你的营销团队在过去两年里都觉得不用努力,因为产品自然而然就能卖出去,那么你可能就会变得懒散,不再有战斗的动力。
And then when something comes up, you're not like ready to go, right? And this is like not are ready to go tweet. Like that to me feels like what's going on here is that, you know, we've seen this narrative shift over the last two to three weeks where people are actually starting to ask questions about this entire supply chain, right?
Like how much do these chips cost? Are they going to be able to have business models sitting on top of them? What's the depreciation, right? Like there's like a real sort of financial analysis starting to happen in the last. Really, it's like that chart. I want a t-shirt that says what's the depreciation to great t-shirt. I've told you guys, my Gavin Baker quote, we interviewed him in April and someone asked him the depreciation of a GPU and he said, what's the meaning of life?
I thought that was a great quote. Oh, boy. Yeah, I mean, there's not a podcast that this hasn't been debated on in the last two weeks, right? I don't know. I think it's all vibes. Like I sort of ribbed the journal for like, you know, the day after Nvidia earnings, their lead story on the front page was Nvidia results put to rest bubble fears. And the next day it was exactly the opposite.
Like they had reversed every word in the headline. And that doesn't mean it just means you can't analyze this every 24 hours is what it means, right? But they're paying to analyze it. Which is how it's to sell out the newsstand. What's the paper boy? What's the paper boy going to sell? I know. I'm around together second print newspaper, everyone who's tracking the print newspaper.
I just think the numbers are getting extremely large and people are actually starting. Like, you know, I saw this letter from an LP letter from a fund that I'm an investor in that used the number of seconds to contextualize this. And I really liked it. One million seconds is roughly 12 days. One billion seconds is 32 years. 500 billion seconds is 15,000 years.
How is this useful to you? It's just the scale of the dollars is insane. Like until until like if you look, if you think about the 2010s, right? Uber raised something on the order. It was like 40 billion or something like that. Which was insane. Which was insane at the time, right? And so the numbers that we're looking at are just really, really nuts.
And the revenue isn't there. And so I think people are actually like, that's what started to happen in the last two or three weeks. Because people are starting to be like, where are we going to get margin from? Is the inference going to cost come down? Is it not going to? Like is TPU better for that? Is GPU better for that? I think everyone's just looking over their shoulder and doing what they're doing.
What the next guys do? I agree with everything you're saying about the uncertainty. But I think it's so uncertain that like you can't explain the market by like, and now people are looking at this and now people are looking at that. I think they're just reading the room. And when no one can read the room, they're panicking.
I look at it. Can I give a different spin on it? Here's what I really, I actually think a lot of this gets back to politics. Right. Like from a below, here's what happened from my perspective. For the first, you know, whatever, like half of the year, we had a two-prob Trump in control, pretty doing just Trump land, right?
Like no challenges to it. And everyone understands debt overhang must make GDP go up story. So I was like, look, this is all fucking crazy. But Trump will make sure we all, like, Trump will make sure we get paid, right? Like we're going to get paid somehow. Like I'm like, not stressed about it because like, eh, we'll just cut, it will cut interest rates. We'll just do what has to be done to make number go up. And so everyone's like, we don't, this analysis is all crazy, right? Like this whole, you know, whatever, we're going to have a Chinese hazard, whatever, but it kind of doesn't matter because if it works, it works and you get the gods scenario. If it doesn't work, we'll still get paid, right? Like I think we did.
I think the narrative broke a little bit with the midterms where I was like, ooh, like Trump less in control, right? And like if Trump less in control, then all of a sudden the analysis of like how we have to evaluate this completely changes, right? Because always, and you're like, okay, this is a lot of money. And like there is downside risk here, as opposed to being like a free upside option, right? Is the way I would look at it. So I actually think this is a political economy story. It is playing out in tech more than anything else. And then you have like Google firing up and blah, blah, blah. So I just think you have to contextualize it in that context.
Sam, I agree with you. And I think that was the crewgment take two or three days ago. And if you look at that chart, I should go find it. I mean, the fall in the crypto markets is directly related to the midterm elections. I mean, it happened almost in block step, which you could argue is the Trump trade unwinding. Quotum, quote unquote. Well, yeah, I just know it's, I don't even know if I'm winding. I just think it's like ultimately the irony of the crypto stuff is it's the ultimate risk on asset, right? And like, so it's going to be the first thing people pull from effectively.
Yeah, totally. I think your case, I think your argument that you just made is, you know, that the Meg 7 follows crypto. And so I think if you overlay all of these charts, like you see the risk, well, it's just risk on this happening across the curve. Yeah. But, you know, it's just, it's not clear where it goes from here. I mean, I think I do just think the macro story is even more important than anything going on specifically in the tech world. And I think, you know, again, like if you, I've always said that if you want to invest in the AI narrative, the easiest bet in the world is meta because it's all upside, no downside. I stand by that.
You know, I think that's continued to continue the case in like that doesn't even matter if they spend tens of billions of dollars on the wrong stuff. If that happens, it doesn't affect the overall story. I think Google is the interesting one because it was, there was a serious downside case, right, which is the core, core search business. There was all these positives, but there was also this like big bogey to the negative. I think people got uncomfortable that the bogey to the negative probably isn't going to play out or at least not dramatically, right? That's the place where it's not going to be like a dramatic shift tomorrow. And they just have so many weapons.
I think they've gone more than comfortable, Sam. I think you look at that chart from co-tune and within the last two weeks, people's entire narrative on Google has shifted into the positive. Well, that was related to Gemini 3 though, right? Yeah. Yes. But narratives can ship back. I'm curious what Brit thinks because Brit, you have you found, what are you using, chat GPT4? Guys, I switched. In the last two weeks, I have become primarily a Gemini, not GPT. I know. Well, and again, I will say every episode that I called, oh, well, I'm using, here's the problem. Here's the problem of switching.
GPT has the memory of all my preferences and all these things I've brainstormed about. And I've been brainstorming. Do you know that many preferences? I do. I have a lot. You should see the stuff that I talked to GPT about in Gemini. But like, so I feel like I'm in a transition period where I'm trying to get Gemini up to speed on who I am and how I like my stuff and all the things I'm thinking about and working on. You're going through an AI breakup is what you're saying? Well, I wish I would have like an intake form.
Or I guess I could export. Hello, it's your entire Google search history, all your Gmail, your calendar. Can I export my GPT into my Gemini? Okay. I might just. Well, no, you can't export it in, but you can get it out. But I'm sure they make the file really awful and not readable. Well, I want to do that. It really doesn't matter, right? It does, my. It does matter, dude. The format, not in the arrow of GPT. This is my thing. Twitter does. In the era of, there was this era where everyone was trying to implement GDPR, right? And like, download your data, which is ridiculous. And everyone was like, okay, cool. We'll give you the file format. We're going to make them so unusable and broken. We technically comply, but good luck doing anything with the data you've downloaded.
That did work. But guess what? Because I've done this. In an era of chat, it's so easy. Because you're basically like, hey, Gemini, hey, whatever. Here's my entire Twitter download your data file, which is intentionally broken. Or my entire whatever file just fix it and use it. And it's great. I don't think that'll work, Sam. I also think the chat GPT memory is a liability. I understand how the concept of memory is important, but in practice, I'll ask it about some physical element. And it will be like, well, because you asked me about another physical element last week. I'm like, no, they're not related. Like, don't try and prove to me. You remembered last week. It's an entirely different issue.
So I find it's not, I think you can move on. I do think this is the stuff, though. This is the battleground, because people are not going to, but the same is like, you don't switch between Apple photos and Google photos, because you've just got all of your photos over there, and it's a pain in the ass to move it. Like, it is actually a pain in the ass, Sam. Like, I get conceptually, I get conceptually where you're coming from. Like, you're right, technically, however, the devil is in the details in that, in order to export everything out of chat GPT, it's an enormous amount of text. It's like a huge file. Like, you can't just download that into Gemini. Like, it's not possible.
所以我觉得这并不是问题,我认为你可以继续前进。不过,我确实觉得这是一个重要的问题。这就像一个战场,因为人们往往不会更换服务。比如说,你不会轻易从 Apple 照片换到 Google 照片,因为你已经在一个地方存了所有照片,搬迁实在是麻烦。真的很麻烦,Sam。我概念上理解你的看法,你在技术上是对的,但是关键在于细节。如果要把所有的聊天记录从 Chat GPT 导出,那是一个巨大的文本文件。你无法只是简单地下载并导入到 Gemini,这是行不通的。
The text is not like, photos is interesting, because it's literally like trucking around the files. It's just like a lot of band. Like, that is an actually interesting lock-in. I just went and chat GPT, I said, I'm moving to Gemini. I can give me a full rundown of my preferences, you know, etc. So I can use Gemini as well as you. It's like, absolutely. Here's a clean, safe, high-single rundown of your preferences styles for any AI work with you. It contains, and- It's not like, such as my preferences, though. It's all the things I brainstormed. It's not, it's not the preferences. Yeah, it's all the data. It's so much shatter. It's not that I always did it. That's just small. Text is small. Just, you have to choose because this is the war, right?
Like, keeping people- No, that's the narrative of the war. I don't think so, Sam. Like, I'm the user of these things, and I do see that Gemini 3 is good, but chat GPT knows a lot more about how I think what I've been thinking about. The war will be won. What do you guys think? The war, I don't know if I believe this, but I say the war will be won with the easiest hardware access, which is where the world is going. I don't agree. With the war, distribution, undistribution. That's it. I just think that this is a real thing that being able to talk freely to these things with a good user interface that remembers who you are, understands as much about you as possible, and then gives you the best answer.
Like, Jess, the fact that it didn't understand that those two ailments were different is a problem, right? Like, but they're going to solve that problem, at least if you believe their narratives at all about their research stream. And so the better it knows you, the more it can answer questions for you. I listen, I literally built the original theory of when I went to Facebook to work on profiles to get over exactly this. So the only lock in is going to be memory when you get better at exposing memory because that was the whole thesis. I'll tell you, I don't think it's intellectual, it's correct. I think when you get down to the practicality of how people use these things and their actual preferences and whatever, it just doesn't play out that way.
It's not as much of a lock in as you want to be. I guess like, I'm just, I'm going off my own personal experience, which is that I don't want to switch because it knows more. Guys, it's 2025. It is so early. I really believe that. Like, and I do, to defend my hardware point, I just find increasingly the friction of like picking up my phone, clicking through to the app instead of just like talking to something. Whether it's my phone or it is, well, that's the, that's the medocase. That's your meta thesis is impeding my usage. And what I really want, you know, I was in downtown Burley game. Fun fact, there are two downtown Burley games. Who knew what? I learned this the other day. In old downtown Burley game. And I instantly just wanted to know like, what is the history of these two Burley games? Like, you know, as a mid-predence law resident, I need to know this information. I didn't want to know enough to like, click into my phone, decide if I was going to type, decide if I was going to use the automatic dictation. I just want to know.
Like, I think those are going to be the use cases. That's a long meta case because basically that's why you have glasses, that's why you're trying to get in. And by the way, what you're saying is that information. It's a long new form factor. Yeah. The interesting thing about that is it's not, I don't know, man, I don't think it's long meta. Meta is like, keep going. I just say, like, look, to me, I'd say that information, which is super fucking commodity information. Like, no, no LLM is going to have a dramatic, correct. This does not require an LLM. Leg up on like wire their two Burley. This is easy. So if actually most of the story is effectively Alexa 2.0, where Alexa actually works, right, where it's like, these are not hard questions. Most of human questions are not hard questions, right? Everyone's willing to answer them. There's no technical mode from that perspective. It's literally just who's closest to the person's face.
Then like the correct strategy is to race to the face. I like that. Race to the face. Yeah. I just don't think this captures the nuance. Like, go ask all of these systems. Ask meta. What do you know about me? Question mark. Go ask all the four main systems or five, the same question. The context is wildly different. Meta knows literally nothing. Like they don't have any contactually relevant information about you. Dave, Sam is not arguing for the superiority of their AI. I think of Meta's AI. I think he's. No, I'm just saying if the race is just the race is just the interface, here's my thing though. And this is an interesting question. Is how nuanced really are humans, right? The easy answer is we're all snowflakes and we're all super special. And like therefore, Dave, by the way, Dave, you guys have specific tastes. I believe that you're in the 1% of special people, right?
But I actually think most people are like not that. Oh, thanks, Sam. I'll be a snowflake. I think you have a lot of preferences. Like the reality is it's like. Hey, K, we're aggro. No, it's like it's Coke or Pepsi. It's just not that complicated. And I think if you just like strip it back for the vast majority of cases of people, it's like all this personalization content doesn't matter. I think we're talking past each other. Yeah, you're talking about six different things. But can we talk about hardware for a sec because Emerson Collectives demo day, Lorraine Powell jobs is. They have a demo day? What? Domo day. I've been. How does everyone have a demo day now? Can we consolidate the demo days? I'm going to do a demo day. Oh fuck. I'm going to do a demo day after your demo day. There are no days left on the calendar between your etiquette classes, your demo days, your protests.
What's your protest, by the way? Oh, the one for. Oh, I cannot believe I forgot. I forgot my shirt. I know, Sam. It's okay. We can do it next time. Okay. But guys, breaking news, and I'm going to give this one to break breaking news. Johnny and Sam have settled on a prototype, which they will tell us in two years, two years. No. Okay, guys, this is not what happened yesterday. I watched this. This is not what happened. That's not what happened? No. He said it would be ready in two years. No, they didn't. There was a bunch of Lorraine Powell jobs trying to get Johnny to pin down a timeline. He said, I can't talk about that. You can probably get more out of Sam than me. Lorraine said, then she said, well, is it five years? He's like, no, no, no, no, much earlier than that. She said two years, and he said probably earlier than that. And it was not a like, you're going to get this in two years kind of conversation.
Dave, I'm glad you went to the source. Thank you. So what do you think, Dave? Is this one year? When does this ship? No. You know, I thought that their conversation was quite cool, personally. And I thought that their conversation was very interesting. Like, I think that the way that Sam actually framed the problem was kind of cool. He was talking about what did he say? I didn't see this. He's a great marketer. He was just talking about that they went to Johnny and were like, hey, we don't really know what to do. We have this new type of computer that can reason and think. And it's clear that it should be better suited for different kinds of interfaces, but we have literally no idea what to make. And so could we work with you? And Johnny was like, give me $3 billion.
The other thing that I liked about what they talked about is that they talked about the state of the current internet and that the internet and modern technology has really led us into this kind of attention economy where, you know, advertising is the ruling model. Because of that, the feeling of using most of the modern internet is like Times Square. And they want to create something that's kind of the opposite that, you know, is more quiet, gives you more the feeling of like being in nature next to a lake or something like that. And I like that analogy that that is perhaps the opportunity of AI that we might be able to create a better computing feeling. I think we're just going to make way better ads. I thought it was interesting.
Well, I also think, and I don't want to belabor this point and obviously, but I am interested. Lauren is clearly in team open AI in this in this battle playing out. And that, you know, she has had long standing obviously relationships with all men and it's all relational. But I think it's interesting. And I do think that there's a time when it would have been awkward for her to, you know, be so openly endorsing what open AI is doing given it's aiming right for the heart of Apple. And I just think it's interesting that she's deciding it's not awkward for her to do that right now. And I have theories on why that I probably can't speculate about.
But I viewed this event as sort of the coming out of her allegiances in some way. Not that her investment was a secret. It wasn't not that her relationship with Joy. But Tim is her best friend or a very, very close friend. So to do something this publicly was notable. I think if you look at the overarching themes of the events, they present a very humanist worldview in opposition to kind of a highly chaotic political world, social world, you know, etc. And so a lot of what I think she was trying to pull out of them was this very human, more humanist view of what computing might be and that the ability to be, you know, calm, contextual, proactive without being intrusive, you know, they talked a lot about joy and simplicity and being human centered.
But all of that's marketing, Dave, right? Like, I don't think that it is. It's a design philosophy. It is a design philosophy and it's designed to like, which is marketing. No, it's design philosophy. Yeah, that's products you are not marketing. No, but it is like, and I admire that design philosophy. I think it's a cool design philosophy. But it's also like, she's tugging on the heartstrings of the people who believe it while most people are going to decide if it's just a better product or not.
Well, just, just be clear, I want to go back in the history of Apple and the whole relationship between design and marketing. Do you really say I'm because look at who's on the other side of the podcast here? No, no, no, no, I'm not, I'm not, I'm actually wanting to hear these guys talk about this. One of the interesting things about Apple, we talk about is it marketing or is it product? Is Apple is the rare tech company where marketing is super freaking powerful and way more powerful than like the product managers on teams, right? Like Apple is driven by the marketing department.
No, I think that's a, that's a misunderstanding of how Apple works. Well, explain it, explain how it works because the way it's always been explained to me is that Apple is the rare company where marketing is super powerful and like actually in Google or Facebook or places like that. But the marketing are very unpowerful. I've worked at Google and Apple. So explain it, Brett. They were equally as powerful. Go ahead, Brett. I would say at Google, engineers are king and queen like for sure. It's about the code. It's about how fast it is. It's about the A, B test of like conversion rate percentages at like 100th of a percentage one. The analytical. This is all 10 years in the in the rear of your mirror, but that's how it was. For sure. Fine. I think at Apple, it is like product design, which inherently becomes marketing and engineering. But it's about what is the form factor? How are people going to use it?
It's about the customer and the customer's delight in this thing. It's about Steve saying like we want to build the bicycle for the mind. We want to unleash human capabilities through the devices we're creating. And of course, that becomes marketing too, but it starts at the design and the product. Beyond that, Apple is completely human centric in its worldview. And the marketing, Sam, to your point is in service of a business model that requires literally selling a physical object to someone. Like since the beginning of Apple, they had to go to conferences and trade shows and make a better designed product through and through. Design is not how it looks. It's not the aesthetic. Design is how it works.
Right. I'm just saying, I'm not saying I just think Apple starts from, I think in my understanding, you know, I never worth there. But like the way it was always explained to me is that Apple was the tech company. We think about the religion, the product and so on. Whatever. It's just empowered. Right. And the most powerful as a relative one, it plays like Facebook or MetaBach. And today, marketing was not powerful at all. Right. Like it had no role. Right. They were like the fifth person you call maybe. Well, I think you're lumping together marketing. You're lumping together a bunch of things. Right. So there's like depends on what you mean by that.
Product marketing is different than marketing. Okay. Fine. Fine. We'll talk about product marketing as opposed to at Facebook, we had product marketing and product management. Product marketing was not important. Right. Like that was like an afterthought on a relative basis. Right. Whereas that Apple was very important. So when you talk about its product centric, I think it's worth noting, look at the history of errors in collective and how these things fit together. It comes from a legacy with Steve Jobs that really put marketing and storytelling first. Right. In a way, and I'm not saying that negatively. I'm just saying that as a strategy. So that when you then look at how immersed in collective or how the narrative comes, maybe that's coming through Sam Altman, etc.
It's not unsurprising to be like we're a storytelling company first from that perspective. I agree with everything everyone's saying. I'm just not sure it matters because I think like people are, well, I guess I'm wrestling with why it matters. Right. Well, why it matters is when you look at something like this story with Johnny and Sam and the narrative of human centric computing and like what's that? That's all a narrative, right. And then like you fit products into that narrative. I'm not saying that's a bad way to do it. I'm saying it's different, right? Yeah. You have companies have cultures. They have, you know, and they have them for a lot of reason. I think it's also the business model, the business model of OpenAI and the business model of Apple are the same.
And I've been making this argument on the podcast for a long time. They're clearly not the same. They're exactly the opposite. Just give me a second. Like the, my point a long time ago was that this is a, you know, OpenAI is selling computer, quote unquote, right? Like people buy OpenAI, they buy Chatchy Pt Pro, like they buy an iPhone. You use it, you pay for it. It is not an advertising driven model today. It might be in the future. I don't know. But they have to do marketing like Apple does marketing because they're selling a, literally selling a product that does something both utilitarian and gives people a feeling of joy when they use it, which is the identical thing that Apple does.
This will be interesting because if that is the thing that you believe, which I'm not criticizing, I'm saying if you believe that as their philosophy, what we're actually going to see over AI on the consumer side is a literal business model war, right? Because that is not what Google is writing us. Certainly, what matters right now. I know. I think that is what's going on.
So, Dave, here's what you should do, Dave. Dave, you need to go sit down with Kate Roush, CMO of OpenAI, who's wonderful and convince her of that because that is not the playbook OpenAI is running right now. OpenAI wants us to think their meta, like explicitly. Everything that they're saying public and privately is to compete with meta. They're talking about time because there's a lot of meta people working there, including Kate. Yes. Literally, everyone there is from meta. Fiji. Still, it's insane. A lot of our old friends from meta work there.
By the way, can we just like put a pin in the fact that meta, the meta mafia is actually the mafia in this town and nobody talks about it? We could circle back to it, but as meta mafia shows, I'm not sure you can weigh it on that. You can't talk about it. Yeah. You're too biased. Sure we can. PayPal talks about itself. It's worth thinking about this because Dave, you have been very consistent about your vision of OpenAI as a computer.
I thought it was a smart point when you made it six months ago and every time since. That is not how they think about themselves right now. Their CFO is on the call with investors talking about time spent and changing content moderation. Their CEO of apps is sub stacking about group chat and to build your community, pull your network into this. Their own advertising is sort of going head-to-head with Google search with like recipes and how to do pull-ups based on ads I saw that I was confused by.
But that's not how they're making money today. That's also not how their CEO is talking about it on stage two days ago. Well, but that's a huge disconnect because that is a huge problem. But we started this by talking about the interview that was going on on stage. Yeah. I'm glad you watched the interview. Also relative to this point, we published a memo we pushed so ago, or details from a memo, quotes from a memo in which Sam Altman ahead of the Gemini launch, but clearly when the team had been testing it, needed to rally his troops.
And he said, the vibes are going to be tough out there for a while. He also said, it sucks that we have to do so many hard things at one time and many other things that you can read on the information. But I was struck by it because, I mean, it was fine. It's sort of like a tune out the noise and execute, but there was definitely a nervousness to it. They're trying to do everything. They're literally trying to be Google, Apple, and Meta all at once.
And it's a point of pride for him. He uses that as a rallying cry. I get it. And I think he's sticking to his long-term vision. That's what he should do as a CEO. I don't actually think anything is wrong with the way he framed that. And I do think there will be short-term a lot of misses because Gemini and others are executing really well and have more resources. But they have a long-term vision.
And better business models. I think this comes down to this business model question, which is everything that we're talking about, all of these random activities that we're listing out over and over again, are them trying to find a bigger business model than the one that currently exists. That's the real truth. Because they have to justify a half a trillion dollar valuation and figure out how to get more money to buy the things to fight all the wars at once.
Yes. Right now, they do two things. They sell a computer to people and they sell a computer to business. Well, to be clear, they sell very little of either. I mean, it's a lot of revenue, but not to not compare to the old competing with. Yes, I understand. Guys, what they're selling as a computer is pretty much available for free. We can quibble on the margins, but the free version of Gemini is the number of people who are going to find the difference.
So that is a big problem. That's a little problem. That's a big problem. Yes, which is why we're talking about this dissonance, right? It makes sense that the troops are talking about literally the meta business model, right? Because the underlying hope, not current reality, is that they're going to be able to generate a ton of engagement and apps like group chat and many, many others, probably productivity, probably health, probably like everything that will then convert into a attention based business model just like meta, right?
Well, that's just to push you. That is the opposite of the Apple business model. I understand. And it's also the opposite of what Sam said on stage. Yeah. I think Dave is arguing that they should change their strategy and hark and align it more with the spirit of Sam's on stage interview. I'm not sure, Jess. I'm not like, this is a very complex problem. I don't, I'm trying to correctly communicate what Sam was talking about and what was going on at this Emerson collective thing as well as these Apple questions. I don't know how to solve the business model problem, which comes back to Matt, the macro, right?
好吧,那只是为了给你施加压力。这与苹果的商业模式完全相反。我明白。这也和 Sam 在舞台上所说的相反。是的,我认为 Dave 认为他们应该改变策略,使其更符合 Sam 在舞台采访中表达的精神。我不确定,Jess。这个问题很复杂,我努力想准确传达 Sam 所谈论的内容,以及在 Emerson Collective 活动上发生的事情,还有这些关于苹果的问题。我不知道如何解决这个涉及到 Matt 和宏观层面的商业模式问题。
Sam knows his, Sam knows his audience. We talked last week about if chat GPT is the clean ex of a category, but it turns out that that isn't the category per se, right? And that the distribution model is going to be more distributed. It's going to be through these other products and, and I think that kind of sums up the dilemma. Do you have data on how much like, like, how do we think about this in terms of who's using which product and at what scale? Like, who has the best data on that?
Like, how many DAU of chat GPT is there versus Gemini versus Grock versus Anthropic versus? I haven't looked at the latest, but Gemini and chat GPT both have huge numbers without a doubt. Like, how is it, is it like one billion on chat GPT versus 400 million on Gemini? Like, that was what I remember last seeing somewhere, but I didn't know how accurate the data's are. I would have to compare, but my sense is very healthy engaged, hundreds of millions, very active. But that's like the difference between meta or Facebook and Twitter and Snapchat, right?
Like meta was always north of a billion DAUs, Twitter and Snapchat were multi-hundreds of millions. But I think the trajectory matters more. It's like because you don't, you haven't really been like comparable products. And again, look, chat GPT could, if we wake up and open AI has, you know, some new AI breakthrough that gets us closer to that San Francisco consensus, that could change the game again. I think it would change it for a shorter window, but it could again, right? So. Well, this is the point is there's no lock in, right? It's like, if you only think it changes it, which is, it was the original pitch, was that we're so close to this like game over a nuclear style outcome that sound will get to first and then there's things locked, everyone else locked out, right? And like, that's not going to happen.
Meta 的每日活跃用户(DAUs)一直都高于10亿,而 Twitter 和 Snapchat 则有数亿用户。但我认为发展轨迹更重要。这是因为它们没有真正作为可比产品存在。而且,如果有一天我们醒来发现 OpenAI 有了新的 AI 突破,让我们更接近所谓的旧金山共识,那可能会再次改变游戏。我觉得这种变化可能会持续更短时间,但仍然有可能发生。关键是,市场上没有一家是绝对稳固的。最初的想法是我们非常接近一种“游戏结束”的结果,即某家公司会先到达这一点,从而将其他公司锁在外面。但这不会发生。
Back to the thing that we were somewhat talking about, each other about, I don't think you can claim that there's zero percent lock in. I think that memory, not preferences, memory, provides some level of lock in. Yeah, it's not zero. Yeah. Do you think wearables are going to add more of a lock in? Like if, if we are measuring all of our daily, quantified self, no, I think we've got to get back to the every man here. Like, I think we have to, I don't know what analogy we're in, but it's like we've been through this like hardcore power user phase of. And story telling things. But just that's why I'm asking you the DAU number because I think, I think it was Sam that said, or you guys may be quoted in an article said something like chat GPT is AI to most people. And I don't know how true that is, right?
Like if it's true that most of the DAU like in the world right now is in chat GPT every day, it's not. I don't think it is. I would just like to know what the number is. No, it will get back to you. There was an era where most of, to most of the world, AOL was the internet, right? And like, eh, they had a lot of lock in in a lot of different ways. And you know what? It just doesn't matter long term. I'm also not sure. I'm not sure you want to be AI to the world to our conversation last week. I think, I think that is an open question. Don't you just want to be like free shipping, cool stuff faster answers to the world and free? Isn't that what you want to be?
And then the idea that you like, you know what actually even wants to buy a computer, right? They want the outcomes from a computer. I think this is like the key thing. It turns out, it might be that in chat GPT is clean X, but like clean X is like the plague, right? And like you're like, I actively don't want. Okay, that's a bit harsh. I will also say as we wrap this segment and perhaps this pod. Yeah, I want to go to the pool. I also want to. I'm sick of the surfshad. I want to get the sauna to the pool. I also am like not ready to like short open AI, despite everything I said.
Like, yeah, I guess that's why I'm trying to get to this question, Jess, which is like, well, I guess I'd short it. I'd short it beyond like to some degree, you know, below its current valuation. Yes. But I would not it's not going to zero. It's not going to zero. And so I know, well, someone will buy it. So I think that's really interesting. And there's a real puzzle in front of them. I just there are certain queries I prefer them for to Gemini. They have a much more straightforward style Gemini so long winded. I want like Gemini short Gemini TLDR.
And you know, they've got a lot to play with to do some cool stuff. But the ball is in their court again. And these things swing. These things are not going to zero because if nothing else, they're taking dollars and turning into 20 cents worth of infrastructure. Right? So the zero is not a number, right? Like if I sell you, if I sell you 20 cents of infrastructure for a dollar and I take the difference, like fine, it's, and I also say shorting in anything where an incinity is possible. And even I believe there's some crazy case where there is incinity possible. You can't short that.
That's the only way to lose incinity money. I don't know. Like is there an AI put in the market? Like how far out would you play that right now? I am too much afraid to try things, even things I don't. And I wish, this is going to be my next evolution is I'm going to learn how to be an adult trader of the public markets. You're going to become a Cirque de Soleil gymnast. I saw Josh Wolf tweeting a bunch about buying an AI put, you know, basically just like literally shorting QQQ, buying a put like six months out because there's no possible way.
Well, my thing is I want, I was going to buy a QQQ short and to pair with a Google long, right? Because I'm scared of the down, I'm scared of market go down, but I think Google on relative basis go up even now. And I'm just annoyed I didn't do it too. ECO. Now I'm going to go to the pool to drown my sorrows. You're going to be here in one week beating your brow again on this. So should I just buy a bunch of Google stock then? I can't, I can't give you an opinion on that. Again, just by the stock Sam, you've just talked about it for months now. I know, and I just, I did so much poorer because I didn't. I don't offer investment advice.
好吧,我的想法是我想买QQQ的空头,然后配合做多 Google,对吧?因为我担心市场下跌,但我认为相对而言,Google 现在依然会上涨。而且我很懊恼没这么做。唉,我要去泳池排解一下忧愁。你可能一周后还在为这事懊恼。所以我是不是应该干脆买一堆 Google 的股票呢?我不能给你任何建议。是啊,Sam,你都讨论了好几个月了。我知道,因为没有买我表现太差了。我不提供投资建议。
Dave, you wanted a conspiracy corner. I know. Oh, conspiracy corner, speaking of Department of Energy. Well, there's an amazing new documentary on Amazon called the Age of Disclosure. It's not that much new information, but it is a consolidation of all of the closures. Yes, of all the narrative around the UFO, UAP thing. It's worth, you know, if you're looking for something to watch over Thanksgiving, just check it out and draw your own conclusions. Am I going to believe in UFOs after I actually don't know that I have opinion actually? I might be. It's really fascinating to watch.
I mean, there's a lot of really senior people that worked at, I mean, we're talking Marco Rubio is on this documentary and that are talking about a lot of the various details related to this that we have craft, that we have none, or what do they call them, nonhuman biologics, that we have been interacting with these things for over 50 years that most of it is hidden in the Department of Energy that we're seeing an increasing number of reports. Anyway, it's like really interesting to watch.
Well, Dave, you should download and have you used enigma? Yeah, of course. Yeah, Alice Lloyd George. What is enigma? Yeah. Oh, that's the UFO spotty nap. Yeah, that's great. Are you an investor? I don't want to talk about it. I don't want to talk about it right now. Do you brought it up? I brought it up. I brought it up in one very specific sense. All right, I'm going to the pool. Bye.
He leaves us for meetings. He leaves us. It's just like we're over time. No one's listening anymore. We could say goodbye to the people, Sam. You got to sign off. Okay, friends, listeners, colleagues, random people who stumbled into this podcast via Sam's advocate school. They can't possibly still be high. They'll launch the podcast at a kid school. And Sam needs to sign up to be a student.
Guys, we need a way to compete that doesn't involve doing more things because then we have no time for anything. I'm just saying. The key is to just do them all less well. We hope that by the time you listen to this, you had a nice Thanksgiving, we appreciate you listening. And we will see you back here again next week for another episode of more or less. Bye. Bye. Bye.
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