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D 5 · C 5 · P 5 · Cm 4 4.85
Q Sometimes I feel good. Sometimes I need to go to the spa and get a massage. This will be a shift into investing because I think this does package itself well into how you chose to lead Tusk Ventures and how you're now going into services for equity. So can you talk about that shift?
A Yeah, sure. It's, so I, you know, I don't, unlike most people you talk to, like I didn't start off in business or technology, right? I worked in politics and government for years and years and years. You know, I made government salaries or campaign salaries for years and years. And then I kind of found attack totally by accident, right? So, uh, my last like real job was in 2009. I was Mike Bloomberg's campaign manager and ran for mayor of New York City. We won. And I decided that I thought there was sort of in the kind of political consulting business, a hole in the model where typically people did one of two things. Either they ran comprehensive campaigns for Companies or institutions or candidates, whoever it was, but in one place, or they would work nationally, but they would offer one skill set. They were a pollster. They made ads, whatever it was. And my view was that the world had changed enough that the way to get things done in government and politics was no longer like a guy knows a guy and, you know, the right guy. It's really multifaceted, right? So yes, it's the inside game of lobbying, but it is also Um, earned media, and paid media, and social media, and grassroots, and all these other tools, and I felt like the amalgamation of experiences I had had, both in terms of the things I've done, and the different places that I've lived and worked, said to me, I think som…
AI assessment note: “I decided that I thought there was sort of in the kind of political consulting business”
Answered raw tape
D 5 · C 3 · P 4 · Cm 3 3.85
Q Can you break down where that capital is going within the two trillion dollars?
A Yeah. I mean, a lot of it are things like data centers. So a data center ultimately won't, like I've, I don't invest in them because there's no real regulatory issue. We'll get into it. That, I mean, a little bit of permitting and zoning, but not that much. Uh, but I, I see deals, right? Occasionally I'll take a look at them. Um, some of it is physical capacity, servers, land, you know, you can't really put A giant data center in the middle of Manhattan, because it would cost 10 times as much, right? So one is where are you going to put it, right? So where Lance lives in New Jersey, it's a better location for a data center than where I live in Soho, right? That's one. Two would be actual chips from NVIDIA or whoever the maker might be, Intel, whoever it is, because you need very, very advanced GPUs, processing units, in order to be able to generate that level of AGI, and therefore Those are really, really expensive, and because the demand is so high, basic economics, if the, if there's massive demand for GPUs, guess what costs more money? GPUs. Um, and especially if there are trade restrictions around it, that further shapes the market, right? So that's, um, and then energy, right? So it's interesting, I was talking, I won't, I won't name him, but I was talking to a guy who, right, run for governor of Vermont the other day, and, and he was, you know, basically when you are a po…
AI assessment note: “a lot of it are things like data centers... chips from NVIDIA... and then energy”
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D 3 · C 3 · P 4 · Cm 3 3.25
Q So I'm curious on your perspective on this part in particular. So The US has over 37 trillion dollars in debt, and so a lot of people are counting on AI and the technological innovation that is going on that's in these narratives to unlock that and offset it. How? By creating economic prosperity.
A Sure. Look, by the way, again, the, the, the title capitalist is literally in my job, right? Venture capitalist. I believe strongly in capitalism. I would say everything that I just, all those points I just made to you, Or what capitalism is, right? And what we're doing now, especially with the US government just taking 10% of Intel or whatever it is, that's socialism. I'm not a socialist. Like, yes, what you just said is right, but that's based on fundamental capitalist principles and theory of which we are not advancing right now. So, like, if you take the big beautiful bill, for example, um, we took on a couple of trillion dollars more in debt, and I'm not really sure What the upside is, right? Like, it might benefit me as someone at the very top of the, the tax curve, but What am I going to do with it? Right? Like I'm, I'm not fundamentally people at the bottom of the ladder spend a lot more money. Like if you actually want to juice the economy, you want to give tax cuts or benefits to the lowest income people because they're going to spend every penny of it. Right? You know, if I put it in treasuries or whatever it is, like that doesn't really do any longterm good. Right? Other than just a lot more borrowing. So like in many ways to me, The unlocked AI is UBI, Universal Basic Income. It's like Andrew Yang, I think, was absolutely right about this. In fact, the reason why I…
AI assessment note: “So like in many ways to me, The unlocked AI is UBI”
