Q The, you know, English is the new programming language. It's only two or three percent of the country knows how to code. Probably half that code well enough to do a startup. So here we are, um, could we be on the precipice of 10 times as many startups, a hundred times as many startups?
A Absolutely. I mean, that's, that's the dream. Um, that was actually, you know, YC was started 20 years ago, uh, based on PG's insight that actually it's getting easier to start a startup, right? It used to be you had to have a big mountain of money, you, you know, hire a big team, et cetera. And his realization was you can start a startup with just a couple of people and, um, you know, basically ramen. Few, few kids living off of, of ramen. Um, and that's proven to be true. Uh, and our belief is with AI, that actually just goes that much further, right? Because the universe of people who are able to create, uh, apps using something like Replit, uh, is enormous. And so, uh, my, I think maybe most optimistic vision of what we're doing with all the AI is essentially putting all of these tools of wealth creation in as many hands as possible.
AI assessment note: “Absolutely. I mean, that's, that's the dream.”