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Gross: Google will always beat Apple in services, but lose in hardware
“And I think this will always be the case. They will try to always fix this, but it will always be the case that Google will be amazing at services because ads requires a service business model, and Apple will be amazing at kind of user experience and hardware.…”
Gross: YouTube's algorithm will produce many more leaders like Jordan Peterson
“Jordan Peterson is, you can imagine the world basically has, YouTube is a massive fuzzer where people are trying every possible permutation in terms of communication style, oration, content language, and what emerges is the best and the most addictive and the …”
Gross: Core Google will fail to reinvent ads due to innovator's dilemma
“So, so the core Google unit, I think, will not be able to reinvent kind of the next ad model because of traditional innovators dilemma”
Gross: SpaceX was originally a stunt to land a plant on Mars
“SpaceX, I believe, was conceived as the Green Mars Oasis Project, where the idea was it's a very Los Angeles idea we're gonna go buy a bunch of rockets from the Russians, and we're gonna try to launch a bunch of stuff onto Mars, and we're gonna take a photo of…”