technology

8 statements across 8 episodes · 1 bullish · 5 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Apr 12, 2024 by Dave Morin · across every show →

Everything said about technology, oldest first

Apr 12, 2024 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Morin: AI will stall without economic incentives for content creators
“We have to figure out how to create an economic incentive structure that incentivizes both sides. Otherwise, we end up at this kind of, I think, mediocre middle, and the technology doesn't reach its potential.”
Dave Morin Apr 12, 2024 ▶ 27:07 #42: OpenAI, IP Theft and a New Incentive Structure for the Internet · More or Less Podcast
Jun 21, 2024 negative
Insight
Lessin: Technology Has No Value, Only Customers and Profits Do
“If you think about what companies are valuable, the technology is not valuable. The customers are valuable. The revenue, the profit is valuable.”
Sam Lessin Jun 21, 2024 ▶ 59:51 #52: Elad Gil on What to Build in AI (Part II) · More or Less Podcast
Sep 6, 2024 positive
Insight
Sam Lessin: Technology Enables Single Founders to Run Larger Companies Solo
“There's a lot of businesses that are pretty complicated that are really smart person can actually fully grasp and keep in memory and know how to allocate resources and what decisions to make. But, you know, and I think that's been that horizons and push way fa…”
Sam Lessin Sep 6, 2024 ▶ 14:32 #63: 'Nasty' Founder Mode · More or Less Podcast
Nov 29, 2024 negative
Opinion
Dave Morin: Society scapegoats tech's negative fallout onto 'tech bro' stereotype
“The ills that technology has wrought upon society, I think get bottled up into this tech bro stereotype.”
Dave Morin Nov 29, 2024 ▶ 24:00 #75: The Rise of the Tech Bro · More or Less Podcast
Apr 25, 2025 negative
Insight
Sam Lessin: Technology is hyper-centralizing, not decentralizing
“The internet was supposed to be in like technology. Everyone had this vision that it was going to be this decentralizing force, and it's hilariously done exactly the opposite, which is it's hyper centralizing. Like technology turns out to be hyper centralizing…”
Sam Lessin Apr 25, 2025 ▶ 17:52 Google & Meta Trials, AI’s Media Collapse & Elon’s Tesla Comeback · More or Less Podcast
Jun 27, 2025 negative
Insight
Sam Lessin: Technology's efficient market for sex harms almost everyone
“No, no, I actually think technology, per usual, has given people exactly what they want, right? It just happens that, like, the efficient market for sex is, like, extremely bad for almost everyone.”
Sam Lessin Jun 27, 2025 ▶ 47:22 #105: Tesla, Bumble, And Bezos' Wedding - Everything Is A Mess · More or Less Podcast
Jan 9, 2026
Insight
Sam Lessin: Society is downstream of technology, not vice versa
“I'd argue that society is downstream of technology. Like we live in a, like there's a physics to technology and what we can do and how we can interact. Society is just, it comes from that. It doesn't dictate to that.”
Sam Lessin Jan 9, 2026 ▶ 42:32 Founders Beware: Illiquid Valuations vs. Real‑World Taxes · More or Less Podcast
Feb 13, 2026 neutral
Insight
Sam Lessin: Tech centralizes economic value while pushing risk to the edge
“The way you make a lot of money in technology is you centralize and control the value, but then you basically socialize or, like, throw off all the risk associated with it to the edge and let other people deal with it”
Sam Lessin Feb 13, 2026 ▶ 38:32 Why OpenAI Can't Win The Decentralized AI Future (OpenClaw, Apple's Win, X.AI Exodus) · More or Less Podcast
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