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“I personally believe the internet has mostly failed in its mission to become an information platform. It's a great content platform. It's super engaging, but it doesn't inform the way I expect it to. I'm super disappointed in Wikipedia.”

“A lot of these laws were passed in the, you know, the thirties and forties when the internet didn't exist.”

“In January, 95, we launched a small 30, thirty-five million dollar fund, and it was the first Fun to focus exclusively on what was then segmented out as the internet”

“Because distribution is no longer, it's commoditized now, and the internet did that.”

“There were no you know, again, back to the example of the internet, there were no internet specialist in the early nineties. It was just people took a chance on this new emerging segment that didn't know this.”

“Using the internet to collaborate, to make something together with other people that you might not have been able to make on your own. That was sincerely new behavior that was only made possible by this new technology.”

“So I actually have this belief that AI is either appropriately hyped or even maybe a bit under hyped in terms of its total impact. I think that it really is, if you were to think about technology in terms of these giant waves, I think there's the internet, the…”

“There is no free customer acquisition channel, there's no arbitrageable channel on the internet, probably for the first time since the internet was born”

“It's the first time that we have had property rights on the internet, right?”

“And the internet is a place where people don't go to lose. People go to the internet to win. They go to win their argument. You're not going to change people's minds, right?”

“I started to go out in public and say, I'm not going to be a hermit to this, and not one person has ever said anything negative to me in public. So I will tell you, the internet is not a real place.”

“I think it's comparable. I think it's on the scale of the internet. I think it's on the scale of mobile.”

“I wrote my college thesis on why the internet was a fad in 96 1996.”

“I think that the internet changed the way that information flowed for sure. And I think probably unbundled a lot of brand and venture.”

“Today, if you look at the internet, we can all write on the internet. Distribution is no longer a limiting factor. Today, brand and content becomes important, right?”

“It's actually going to get sprinkled across all businesses to lower costs in call centers or to improve the product in personalization. It's not going to Have a creative destruction effect like the internet did on many industries.”

“That's always the challenge in startups, and it's one of the reasons why the internet has been much better for entrepreneurs than mobile ecosystems, because the mobile, mobile ecosystems Are controlled by solitary providers in ways that the internet is not. An…”

“We're going to look back on this moment 10 years from now, just like we would look back to the moment of mobile, internet, and realize that that was the moment where the table got set.”

“Is AI the next internet? And I'm like, absolutely not, because the internet is an information age technology. It's about duplicating data with high fidelity and distributing it. It's what telephone does. It's what internet does. It's what the printing press di…”

“I think the reality is, AI is a big shift. I think AI is much bigger than mobile. Maybe, like, all the other magnitude of the internet.”

“For the first time, every CEO in every industry in every country is thinking about what do I do with this technology? Never happened before. Cloud wasn't like that. Certainly PCs weren't like that. Internet wasn't like that.”

“And so it's like an ever expanding TAM and it's going to be perhaps as big as the internet if not more. And that's like, I'm talking about just software generation broadly.”

“Well, look, everybody's AI, right? Like, it's almost like saying that you're not AI today is like, I'm not using the internet, right? It's like, why wouldn't you use the most contemporary tools? So everyone's AI.”