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“America is falling behind some of the other, like, G-seven nations around longevity, but I thought it was because generally people were dying earlier but it's actually due to these things called diseases of despair. So just like alcoholism drugs, etc. But if y…”

“Prior to the acquisition, Nikita, the founder went on the today show and had this big exclusive segment, which in the past would have been like, Huge for an application or a company. And he said he thinks it generated a thousand downloads.”

“There are 31,000 assisted living facilities in the United States. Four out of every five are run as for profits and half of all the operators in the industry are clearing annual returns of 20% or more.”

“They started approving these electric Vertical takeoff and landing companies, the EV tool companies, and again, that was in the news, but what wasn't covered as much was the fact that this was the first new category of aircraft in nearly 80 years”

“Waymo's are already taking up 20% of Uber rides in Austin”

“I wouldn't be surprised if that happens within my lifetime, certainly”

“It was basically that .8% of the US budget is spent on kidney dialysis, which was basically three times NASA. So all these people need dialysis. It's like, I think Medicare spends over fifty billion dollars annually on dialysis and other related treatments, wh…”

“I think there should be a Strava for CGMs. Now that more people are using it, even during just that trial period of a month of learning, like, I think being able to kind of socialize what you're learning, but also compete in a way that's what Strava is. Like, …”

“People tend to be happy early in life. And then in mid, mid years, there's this like, they call it the smile curve. Cause like generally they become a little less happy. And then that curve goes like up and up and up as people get older, which is really intere…”

“Some people spend more time organizing their second brain than actually using it.”

“I just wanted to share that this episode was actually inspired by some of the unique perks that I had never seen before until I joined A-Suite C. That includes a full body health scan that we get from Q-Bio or five weeks of full firm shutdown. Yes, that's righ…”

“One that I like is Andrew Palmer Luckey says that he offers his employees, tools and technology for all of their side projects, not just their work projects, because he thinks that'll attract ambitious people.”

“Service prices can range up to 30 X.”

“It's fun to play around in these tools, but ultimately there, while there is a market for just interesting art in the world, a lot of this will need to ladder back into, you know, whether it's blog post sharing images, whether it's creating, you know, the next…”

“So there were at least, I'm aware of two or three different web-based applications, ProfilePicture.ai and then Avatar.ai as well, which had come out first with this idea of creating personalized avatars. I believe all, all of these products are based off of th…”

“Social media is not really social anymore in a way. It's kind of gone from the social graph where you followed your friends and your family, and then now it's an interest graph where you follow just things that this algorithm is serving you.”

“And I think it's just, it's going to take off. And so someone in like Wyoming, go, go start a hard kombucha brand. I think you're going to kill it in, you know, the next three to five years.”

“Actually a lot of subscription boxes just get their products for free because these companies want to be in it.”

“In, in the UK in 1965, the most common age of death was the first year. That's perhaps not surprising, but today the most common age to die is 87.”

“Below the age of 55, cardiovascular illness is a more likely cause of mortality in men. And then after 55, again, around that menopause stage, it basically reverses, because what menopause is, is like, I'm obviously oversimplifying, it's just like a super, sup…”

“And just due to the nature of, like, you could say, TAM, 6000 women in the U.S. Hit menopause every single day.”

“In Japan, the number of nursing homes has risen nearly 50% over the last decade”

“There's over, there's tons of articles on this, over eight million IKEA's that are being given away by the government or again, sometimes for very cheap.”

“From 2004 to 20 21, the median annual price of assisted living increased 31% faster than inflation and has hit 54,000 dollars per year.”

“He passed away at a 109, but he at a 101, Was still cycling, and he broke some records at a 101, and he decided that wasn't enough. So he then worked with a bunch of trainers and tried to break his existing record. At a 103, he hit 27 kilometers an hour on a b…”

“Their new product, Stello, is the first over-the-counter FDA-approved CGM. This was just as of, like, last month end of August.”

“Off that I'm pretty sure it's hard to tie directly. Like, but for sure, six figures.”

“So the stat or the digit is that nearly 2.5 billion people by 20 50 are expected to experience hearing loss. With over seven hundred million requiring rehabilitation.”

“In 2023, we saw America's first newly built reactor come online in over three decades.”

“The US government itself recently announcing its intent to triple nuclear power production by 20 50.”

“The physics when you're on earth due to gravity and some of the other forces that don't exist in space results in you not being able to create certain chemical structures, and that impacts the way that drugs can be basically ingested or administered. And so th…”

“70% of all U.S. Teens have AirPods.”

“Knowledge workers apparently spend 2.5 hours a day, which is around 30% of their time in a workday searching for information.”

“Unfortunately, the American healthcare system has instead been grounded in fee-for-service models since the 19 sixties, incentivizing providers to focus on quantity rather than quality of care.”

“Investment in value-based care quadrupled during the pandemic, while new hospital construction remained unchanged.”

“I saw this infographic that basically showed the largest companies in 1989. The top 10 or top 20, none of them are in the top 20 today.”

“One is recently shared a thirteen-year-old kid that set up a sizable crypto mining operation via Replit.”

“I think I read another headline that said it would take over a million years for the airplane to be successful, only to which I believe the Wright brothers took flight two months later.”

“Her AI-generated Cosmo magazine cover, the first ever.”

“It was this stat, which is the average person spends one and a half thousand dollars after a breakup.”

“So Kirin, which is K-I-R-I-N, it's a company in Japan, and they partnered with a university, and they found a way to make, to basically use a super weak electrical current, both in bowls and chopsticks, so that when you're eating, something about the ionizatio…”

“And a return with clothing can cost up to 66% of the cost of an item.”

“So a 100,000 a year just for access to their 234 foot tower.”

“Their first price target is 156 dollars, and it goes all the way up to 979 dollars. So this is what these execs internally are tracking towards.”

“This company Swag Up, they started in 2017. They did five K their first month, 3.3 million in their first year. And today they're on track to do fifty five million in sales. And the founder is 26 years old.”

“The term actually comes from Andre Karpathy, right, who is, like, extremely technical, like, is behind the LLMs that are actually helping people vibe code.”

“Nuclear energy accounts for 20% of the electricity in the United States.”

“And now at least 10 states require it, with over a quarter of the US labor force covered by salary transparency legislation.”