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“I think it'll be a blip in the long term, and it'll be a blip, you know, much like, you know, web van imploding, or a flooz.com, or whatever, you know, pick your favorite .com, you know, thing that imploded.”

“Yeah, no, I mean, look, I mean, that's tough noogies for you, but you're still one of the world's richest people, and you still could basically give any debt provider an out, and you could still basically just take a bunch of your wealth and sort of say, look,…”

“We'll see all sorts of structure and pay to play and everything else, but we'll also just see some businesses just blow up and people will be like, you know what, I've got better things to do.”

“And there is literally no evidence to support that. All the evidence from all the basic income trials that have ever been run are that people like, wow, I can take better care of myself. I can invest in education. I can take better care of my family. Of my fri…”

“I think it's politicians misreading where we are and trying to keep us in the industrial, trying to fix the industrial age that is going to make this transition bad.”

“And I believe that climate will be that kind of thing. It'll go from something where politicians feel, oh, I can't really talk about it. There's not enough voters. I'm not going to get elected and so forth. I think it's going to go from that to something where…”

“I've been doing this for nearly 30 years, and I've done, like, three downrounds in that entire time period. Downrounds are incredibly hard to pull off.”

“You have zero work incentive because you start working, you lose all your welfare, but you only make a little bit of money. So the taxes that you effectively face, people who are on welfare today often face tax rates that are above a hundred percent. So like i…”

“The idea that in principle, you could fund a, the development of a protocol through selling some of its currency that is, Then integral to the running, to the integral to the operation of the protocol I think is a really fascinating idea. And I think it will b…”

“And now I think we can automate a lot of, not just industrial production, but also a lot of services whether that's shopping services or insurance services or transportation services. We can now automate those and that will free us up to participate more in kn…”

“The reality is it's four to seven per second, right? So of every second, of every minute, of every hour, of every day, it's like four to seven Hiroshima-sized nuclear bombs worth of heat.”

“We are in the installation phase for VR and AR. You know, people are pouring lots of money into Both handset headsets, displays, other periphery software tooling and distribution but we are, it's not yet broadly deployed, and so it's not yet that there's an in…”

“If you think about self-driving cars, how many self-driving car companies will there ultimately be? It's probably not a large number, and so if you're in the installation phase, you know, you have to get very lucky to pick the winner, and then even within pick…”

“No, I mean, look I think we have brand new, 20, 22 funds. We have a new opportunity fund, a new core fund, a new climate fund. And so we're probably not going to be in market for a while because we've kept our funds very small.”

“Josh had written Delicious. It was a fully up and running service while he was still an employee at Morgan Stanley. It was a side project.”

“Delicious was acquired nine months after formation by Yahoo.”