The Ledger
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Berman: The gap between stock market and consumer sentiment is historically high
“There was a chart that you and I were looking at this weekend that showed, like, basically the delta between where the stock market is and where Americans, how they feel about the economy has literally never been larger since they've been measuring this.”
Berman: Shareholder primacy is only about a 50-year-old idea
“This notion that it is financial return above all else as a mission for corporations and obligation for corporate leaders is, is a relatively new idea. This is only about a 50 year old idea.”
Berman: LinkedIn has many $150,000 entry-level prompt engineering job postings
“You've got entry level, 150,000 dollar jobs for prompt engineers. You know, littering the LinkedIn landscape.”
Berman: Angel City FC is the first nine-figure women's sports franchise
“You have built the first women's sports franchise in the United States to reach a nine figure valuation and the fastest growing women's sports franchise or male sports franchise in American history.”
Berman: WorkMoney scaled to nine million SMS members in five years
“Zero to nine million in, in five years basically is a pretty impressive number, and these are people who have a text relationship, an SMS relationship with not just people like nine million visitors to a website or, you know, an Instagram or something”
Berman: Baby2Baby has distributed 250 million diapers since founding
“Since it began more than a decade ago, Baby to Baby has given out two hundred fifty million diapers.”
Berman: Baby2Baby received 1.7 billion diaper requests in a single year
“This year alone, they've received requests for 1.7 billion diapers.”
Reid Hoffman hired AI startup Respeecher in 2023 to clone his voice
“Last year, Reid hired the team at Respeacher to create a synthetic voice for himself.”
Reid Hoffman originally cloned his voice to narrate his 2023 AI audiobook
“The original use case for this was to make an audiobook, specifically Reed's twenty-twenty-three work called Impromptu, Amplifying Humanity Through AI.”