Straight Answers

“Like what's more true in number one than number 40? Like what is the measure of goodness?”

answered: “what I realized is like, I've never been around impressive people”

“Like what would be the world in which as a result of this technology, Spotify's whole business model needs to change? And how do you, how do you go about evaluating something like that?”

answered: “these companies are the first set of companies. To have technology as the strategy”

“How long do you think it will be until there's literally something sitting here that the, the feedback loop is more or less instantaneous?”

answered: “This is a machine called a GCMS. This is basically a camera”

“Do you have a sense for, like, how long you think it will take given the extreme shortage of compute?”

answered: “Well, the interesting thing is what this means for Intel and Samsung's sort of logic”

“Is this nutritious? Is this in line with Spotify's mission of being like the place where you go when you want to feel good about yourself instead of when you want to feel bad about yourself?”

answered: “How do you think about if that's the supply of the stuff”

“How would you encourage other people to like get it, get a taste of it? They can't just read about it, obviously.”

answered: “What happens, uh, to founders is you invent something, right?”

“In that specific effort for Bending Spoons, specifically, Where have the best investors really dug in to get that, that physics understanding of your business that's different than how other things work? Like, where are the best digging?”

answered: “some of the best are really good at understanding people, at discerning Who's really smart”

“He writes about that in his, this in his book. And he seems to be one of the, like you sort of always dissatisfied with stasis, like always wanting to know what the next thing that we can do is that we've earned the right to”

answered: “We got involved very early together because Pete was on the board of Sony.”

“What did that teach you? Like that, that seems like a really important moment.”

answered: “to answer your question, which I've avoided skillfully”

“Can you imagine that happening without some sort of visceral crisis? Like, can that happen slowly and organically?”

answered: “the more we use this term Sputnik moment... the less that it is actually accompanied”