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Srinivasan: Regulatory unbundling will be as impactful as television channel unbundling
“And unbundling of regulatory, you know, regimes such that you don't have to buy them en masse, I think is going to be just as important as unbundling of, you know, television channels or what have you, such that you could just pick a la carte.”
Srinivasan: Gawker's business model was destroying individual reputations for cheap clicks
“Well, long overdue. I think that you know, without getting into a lot on that, like, They put a lot of people out of business. They attacked a lot of people. Their basic business model was to try to destroy somebody's reputation for five dollars in clicks. You…”
Srinivasan predicts Uber and Airbnb will become multi-hundred billion dollar companies
“I think it's quite possible that those become multi-hundred billion dollar companies.”
Srinivasan: Uber and Airbnb have created one trillion dollars in societal value
“The rest of it is probably on the order of a trillion dollars in value that's being created if you were to compare it to what happened before.”
Srinivasan: The year 2030 will be decentralized like 1870, not 1950
“Especially because I think in many ways our future is more like our past. That's to say, you know, 20 30 I think will be more similar to 18 70 than it will to 1950. In many ways like 1950 was sort of a peak centralization point, and either side is like a mirro…”
Srinivasan: Venture capital creates a unique financial incentive for seeking truth
“VC has many, many faults, but there's a couple of things I think are really interesting about it, and one of the biggest is that a VC is very interested in whether they were wrong. You know, pass on a Series A company, and then it's successful, and it becomes …”
Srinivasan: VCs are financially incentivized to make founders wealthier than themselves
“VC is incentivized to build people up. You know, what I mean by that is as an investor, you want to invest in somebody and make them richer than yourself. Example, Peter Thiel investing in the young Mark Zuckerberg put 500,000 dollars into Zuckerberg. Thiel ma…”
Srinivasan: 21's upcoming product will be digital currency's first mainstream application
“So we have something coming out. It's actually already in beta which I think will hopefully be the first mainstream application of digital currency.”
Srinivasan: Excessive safety conservatism introduces systemic risk by blocking necessary innovation
“Being too conservative on safety actually leads to systemic risk because, you know, you stick with the current system, you stick with the current system, you stick with the current system, you don't take a risk.”
Srinivasan: Uber is a more closely regulated marketplace than taxi medallion systems
“Uber is a more closely regulated marketplace than the taxi medallion system. It's harder to abuse it. Right. It's actually better at achieving the aims of the early twint century progressives than this antiquated system. Right. So it's not deregulated. It's re…”
Srinivasan: PhD students should size markets before picking research projects
“A little bit of market sizing at the beginning of their research could have you know, at least allow them to pick between two equivalently interesting research projects one of which had a higher market potential.”
Srinivasan: Regulatory changes should be proven in dedicated, isolated innovation zones
“You don't try to force the change on the entire system at once. Instead, you focus all your energy on carving out one sufficiently, you know, like it doesn't have to be huge, but sufficiently large zone where you can prove it out.”