Hi everyone. Welcome back to another episode of GlaspTalk. Today, we are very excited to have Nathan Lance with us. So Nathan is a seasoned entrepreneur, investor, and a visionary in the tech industry. So he's a co-host of the Next Wave podcast with Matt Wolf and HubSpot, where they dig into the exciting world of AI and emerging technologies. So Nathan is also the founder of lore.com and a techno-optimist AI newsletter

led by over 20,000 innovators and offering insights and a podcast on the transformative potential of AI. And with a rich background in startups and including ventures like Binded, which is acquired by Pixie and also Gamify, Nathan has been at the forefront of innovation, advocating for a future powered by AI and technology. So today, we will explore Nathan's journey, his perspective on the intersection of AI

and entrepreneurship, and his vision for leveraging technology to make the world a better place. So thank you for joining today, Nathan. Yeah, thanks for that introduction. Hopefully I don't disappoint. That was an amazing introduction. Oh, thank you. Yeah, thank you. Yeah. So yeah, first of all, we really love your newsletter and also I love the name, you know. Lore is inspired by the accumulated knowledge and wisdom passed down through generations.

And we really resonate with the name. Could you tell us a little bit more about, you know, what is Lore and why did you start? Yeah, well, the name is kind of a long story. Like, you know, I always loved the word Lore. Like, I mean, my background really started like more in the game industry side of things. So I made money playing video games when I was a kid. And then later I had a startup called Game Streamer

where we raised about $10 million and had a huge booth at E3 when I was like 19. So, and from there, I just, you know, I hung out with a lot of people in the game industry. And so it was always just love the name. And then it's kind of crazy how it happened. I got the name lore.com because I was partnered with Barry Osborne, the producer of Lord of the Rings and the Matrix. And we were trying to build a crypto funded movie studio.

And which was totally unexpected to me. Like a friend, like I was involved in crypto pretty early on and a mutual friend, I probably won't name him, but he's a pretty big investor in crypto. He connected us and we spent about a year and a half trying to create a movie studio together. So like, we went out to like, I got to hang out on Disney movie sets out in New Zealand. And, you know, we had tons of meetings out in Hollywood

and I got pretty excited. Cause like for me, you know, the Matrix and Lord of the Rings those are two of my favorite movies ever. And so I was like, hey, lore would be a great name for like a new movie studio. And so I bought the domain personally. Then crypto happened. I mean, then COVID happened. And when COVID happened, like all filming just like slowed down for like over a year. And so I held onto the name and, you know,

then AI started getting really exciting, you know, and I was using a GitHub copilot and started getting really excited, like seeing what GitHub copilot could do and decided like, well, I've got the name. I'm just going to start writing about stuff I'm currently doing with AI and I'll just do a newsletter. I probably won't keep it on lore.com, but that's kind of like how it happened. I didn't really have any plan of using lore.

com for a newsletter and that's kind of how it happened. Wow. Yeah. Interesting story. Yeah. Thanks for sharing the backstory. And, you know, and with lore.com you focus on, you know, techno-optimism, right? And I read in your, you know, newsletters, but, you know, can you share some, you know, of the most exciting advancement in AI nowadays? And let's say you shared, you know, Snow version 4 is coming out and also like AGI by 2025, you know, so many interesting.

But then also recently, you know, building up in 45 minutes, you know, using console AI, really interesting things are happening in AI. What are the most exciting things? Yeah. I mean, I'm like, I've noticed a huge vibe shift in the last like even week or two in AI and technology. And, you know, this is probably kind of controversial, but a lot of it's actually driven by the fact that Donald Trump just won the election, right?

Like in Silicon Valley, there's been a thing for like the last 10 years where there's pretty much only been, if you were on one side of politics, you could speak. And if you were on the other side, you couldn't say anything at all. So, and for people on the other side, it's felt very oppressive for the last, you know, decade now. And also a lot of the politics on the left had started to be kind of like anti-tech, right?

And so I'm really excited that we have some, you know, for as long as I can remember, people have wanted like smart people to be in the White House. They're like, why don't we have the smartest people from Silicon Valley in the White House? Why are they all, they're just doing their own tech stuff and the government's just like wasting all of our money. Now that we have like Elon Musk, like, you know, arguably one of the most incredible people

that's ever existed in, at least in modern day, in the White House, as well as the vice president who was a venture capitalist. Like this is, this has never happened before, right? And so a lot of people are, you know, really excited about what that's gonna mean to have a government that's actually, you know, trying to, on one side, trying to cut out waste, you know, cause like with like Doge, the new agency that Elon Musk is gonna be running,

the Department of Government Efficiency, they're trying to cut down US spending by like $2 trillion, right? And the idea is not just to cut the spending, it's also, then I'm sure some of that will be reinvested into innovation and technology and things to make America better, you know, to compete with China. Cause really that's, what's going on is like, we're in a new, you know, we're almost like in a new arms race right now, right?

With AI, right? Cause it's kind of like the reason that America has led for the last 20 years or even the last 100 years is all because of like being ahead in technology. So in the future, if America is not ahead of in technology, it will not be a American century, right? It'll be a Chinese century and their politics and their views on things like, you know, freedom of speech and things like that, that will become the norm.

And so it's exciting that we have, you know, somebody in the presidency that's pushing for America to win at AI and realize how important that is. So I'm excited in terms of AI itself, I'm highly optimistic. Like I've talked about this with Matt on our podcast, that a lot of people haven't properly updated their mental models yet about where AI is at. Like a lot of people are thinking like, oh, it just, it only got a little bit better

in the last year. And they're not realizing that, you know, with models like O1 from OpenAI, that is not just an LLM, but there's a reasoning model as well, where it's actually thinking at inference time, that that changes everything. Cause now it's not all, it's not only about getting more data, right? You also can throw more compute at the models now and they will continue to improve even without more data.

And so now the only constraint is energy. And then now you've got, you know, Donald Trump in the office and he's talking about ramping up energy production. So it's, I'm highly optimistic cause like most people don't realize that's, it's now the main restriction on, the main thing holding back AI progress would be energy. And we have a president who is really pro more energy. So that's, I'm highly optimistic on what's going to come.

Yeah. And I was so impressed by, you know, Elon Musk really made, you know, dodge the government efficiency. Yeah, it was all based off of a joke, you know, like even Dogecoin itself was a joke originally, right? I hung out with Jackson Palmer, the founder, when he first started, or like a few months after he started, he came out to San Francisco and I was actually sharing an office in Adobe's office there. Like there was a little co-working space that I was part of.

And then Jackson joined Adobe and was working there. So we hung out and had a beer. And it was funny to hear, like that all started as a joke. And then now somehow that's become such a big cultural thing that somebody suggested on X, hey, you guys should name this Doge. And then now that's the, it's an actual thing. There's like, it's a real government agency and everything is, it's wild. Yeah, that's, yeah, so funny, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, and so, and, but, so how about, you know, like the ASI, you know, Sam Altman mentioned that ASI is coming in a thousand days or within a thousand days. And, you know, as we mentioned, these new models, you know, is getting better. It's better, it's great. And then what's your thoughts on like ACI and ASI? Yeah, I mean, actually I had this conversation with Matt today. I don't know if our episode has been released yet,

but we were kind of going back and forth on this. And, you know, it seems like AGI, like let's say AGI is like AI being as smart as a human. And let's say maybe that's within the next one year to three years, right? That's kind of like a lot of people's estimates now. If that's true, well, then if you say ASI is like, okay, AI, it's smarter than any human. Well, that doesn't seem that hard to achieve if that is the definition, right?

It's like, okay, if you increase the AI's IQ by like 10 points every year, it's going to get smarter than any human pretty quickly, whether we're talking about three years to 10 years, but I would say probably three to five. And so it's, you know, it's, I don't think humans really know, like I could tell you my own thoughts of what that's going to mean. And like, but I think it's hard for humans to like fully process all, you know,

there's too many possible different outcomes that could come from that, right? But in general, I'm excited. I think that so many things are going to be happening at the same time where we're going to, We're going to be having AGI and robotics and all these things happening at the same time, that the world's going to look dramatically different in 10 years. So I've actually spent a lot of time thinking about that.

Like, how do I raise my son? I've got an 11-year-old son here in Japan, born in San Francisco. And so I think about how to raise him and how to position him the best for that new future, because he's 11 by the time he's 18. The world is going to look so different, right? Yeah, interesting. So yeah, I think related to AI, so AI makes creation easier, right? So people can make code. People can make images, take this, everything.

So I think, yeah, you are running a company binded about the copyright. So we are just curious about the copyright on AI. So will copyright exist? I mean, so will copyright exist? Because if making creation is easy, so what's the reason of having a copyright? Right. Oh, yeah, and I'll disclose. Like, I did a copyright startup for two years, and I still don't fully understand copyright. Copyright's very complicated.

And when we started Binded, we did not plan to be involved in copyright, actually. It was way more about, like, what's the provenance? Who created the image, right? And we use that whole meme of, like, I made this, and then you hand it off. And it's like, no, I made this. It's like, what? You just took my thing. And so a lot of it was more about the attribution, right? And actually, I spoke in Washington, DC

about the future of copyright with some of the folks from Creative Commons and always liked the Creative Commons people and thought their approach was interesting, but also incredibly complicated. So I'm not entirely sure. Like, I don't think the current copyright rules make sense, like, in the age of AI, but you still do have to figure out attribution of some sort and compensation of some sort, right? But I'm not sure what that looks like.

I don't think anyone knows what that looks like, right? Because even with these AI models, like, some people are saying, well, they should be sharing all the money with the people that they train the data on. But it's like, I don't know. It's kind of like all the art students, they go to museums to learn and get inspired by art. That's kind of what the models are doing, right? So if you become a famous artist because you went to art school

and then you went to museums, what, do you need to pay all the people from all the art you saw in the museum? Do you need to go back and pay them all? So this is all very complicated and uncharted territory. But I do feel like when somebody directly copies an artist, like, there definitely should be attribution there. Like, if I'm like, oh, I want Banksy's style or whatever or whoever, like, there definitely

should be some kind of compensation there because it's so direct. But I don't know. I think copyright, like, maybe this is something that will get rewritten with the new administration. Like, maybe Doge will go out and totally change the copyright system. Because when I went there, I tried to talk to them about ways that we could possibly modernize copyright. And they were like, it's just not going to happen.

And I went to their office, and it looked like out of like a movie of like 1950s or something with a bunch of people. Like, all the equipment was old, and everything just seemed old, and everything seemed slow. And it was just like, oh, my god. Yeah, there's no way you're going to go in there and get them to just dramatically change things. There's no way. I see. Yeah. Yeah, totally makes sense. And then also, as a founder, especially founders

based in San Francisco, Silicon Valley, I assume mostly they pick an optimist. But to them, what ethical considerations should we have, keep in mind, when we're building AI-based products? It's related to copyright, maybe, but yeah, more like a broader way, ethical considerations. Do you have some advice or tips? Sorry, I'm not sure I understand the question. Can you try it? Oh, yeah, yeah. What kind of ethical considerations

should entrepreneurs keep in mind? Oh, OK, got it, got it. Yeah, building AI-related product. Yeah, it's hard to know. Silicon Valley used to be always associated with pirates. I used to go on a cruise with my friends every year with a bunch of Silicon Valley CEOs, and we called it the Pirate Cruise. And we dressed up as pirates. It was a theme. And I do think there's that kind of element of being mischievous and on the edge,

like in the gray areas of breaking rules. If you think about startups like Uber, there was no laws around being able to start something like Uber. And in fact, for a long time, people were like, oh, Uber is illegal. There is no way they're going to be shut down. This is not a real startup. And I was like, well, I don't know. They definitely had legal opinion that they could do it. And it was probably a gray area, so they

knew that they could fight it in court. And then they got so big that they were able to fight it and win. Some people, probably a year ago, you were hearing the same stuff in AI. You were hearing, oh, open AI and cloud and all this. Oh, this is just a fad. And also, it's all illegal. Everything they're doing with the models is training the models is illegal, so it's all going to be shut down. That was a common thing on people

who were anti-AI a year ago, was all this is going to be gone. It's all illegal. And it's kind of wild. For me, it's like, obviously, open AI and all these companies partnering with Microsoft, throwing vast amounts of money at AI. There's no way they would do any of these things unless they privately already had legal opinions telling them that they could win these fights if it went to court. Of course they did.

They already knew that it's probably all a gray area. So I don't know. I think with the models, I think you should be pushing it as fast as you can. That's my personal opinion. We'll find the problems when they arise. When the problems arise, that's when maybe you need regulation and other things. But personally, this is like a golden age of tech, where this is a one. In the history books of humanity, this is going to be one of the main moments.

If you were talking to God, if you believe in God, you're talking to God. He pulls out the book of humanity, right? This is going to be one of the biggest chapters in all of humanity ever. And it's never going to happen again. If you're in it, go all in, is my opinion. Go all in. Don't break any laws, but don't be scared about, oh, how are the models trained or whatever. I think figure that stuff out later if it becomes a real problem.

Yeah. Thanks. Yeah. Thank you so much for asking that hard question. And also, you are running the podcast, right? The Next Wave podcast with Matt. And I'm curious, how did it happen? And how did you guys start it? Because that started like six, seven months ago, right? Yeah. Yeah, so I've never told this story before. So you guys are going to get the exclusive on this. Actually, people have been asking me to do podcasts.

And a lot of them were all on the East Coast in America. And so I was like, oh, I'm in Japan now. And the timing just doesn't work out. So you guys are getting to have me on here first and talk about it. So it's kind of a wild story. So I created a thread on Twitter probably a year and a half ago now that talks about who are the top people in AI to follow. And when I created that thread, a bunch of people got followed by Jeff Bezos because of it.

So Matt Wolf got followed by Jeff Bezos. Also, Greg Eisenberg, who was our first guest on the podcast, he got followed by Jeff because of it. And then we hung out in Kyoto after that. And after that, I think Matt had already seen some of my tweets and stuff and kind of knew about me and about my newsletter. Because even though my newsletter is not huge, we've got about 23,000 subscribers right now. But we were a pretty early one.

I think we started right after Ben's Bite started. So he knew about me. And he had a, I'm not sure if he's ever disclosed this or not. I don't think it's anything controversial to tell this. He's got a pretty prominent Discord with a lot of amazing AI influencers and stuff in the Discord. And so basically, he invited me into that chat room. I was like, holy crap. You've got every single AI YouTuber and TikTok person

and Instagram person. They're all in here. And I invited a bunch of my Silicon Valley friends in, especially a bunch of people like YC people and stuff like that. And he's like, holy crap. You know this person? You know that person? And so that's kind of how the relationship started. I just really respected his YouTube channel. I was watching it a lot. He was shocked by all the people that I knew once he started seeing me invite people to the chat room.

And we kind of kept talking from there. We had a few phone calls. And we really hit it off. And so then we had explored doing a podcast with two other friends. I'm not sure if they're going to get angry at me for saying this. But one of them is Rowan Chung, who does the Rundown newsletter. The other one is Bill O'Wall, who's doing the TED-AI podcast. So originally, the four of us were going to do almost like the all-in podcast,

like four buddies talking. We were kind of going to do the all-in podcast for AI kind of thing, the four of us. But the Rundown has just been blowing up. He's been so successful with his newsletter. I think he's over 600K subscribers now or something like that. And he's a young guy. So he's really focused on that. And so he was not able to do it. And then Bill O'Wall started talking, I think, to the TED guys.

And so he was kind of thinking about doing his own thing. And then Matt kind of hit me up. And a month or two later, I had already decided, oh, this is not going to happen. you know. And Matt was like, hey, why don't we do it? I'm like, me? I've never even done YouTube before. Like, I don't know. I've never done a podcast. I've never done any of this. But he's like, no, I think you could do it.

And I talked to a few other people who told me similar things. Like, there was this woman who was pretty popular in AI called Rachel Swan. She did a bunch of AI TikTok stuff. I talked to her, and she's like, you have to be doing video, Nathan. You've got to do video. I'm like, OK. But, you know, it's interesting because Matt has his own YouTube channel. And you guys started a new one. So how do you separate the topics? If it's all about AI, do you post it to your Next Wave podcast? And if it's not related to AI,

does he publish it to his own channel? No, I mean, you know, because his channel is mainly AI as well. Like, I would say Matt's the most, like, I think if you look, if there's any AI news that comes out, like, in terms of an individual creator, he typically comes up number one on YouTube for any new AI news that came out. So he's really kind of cornered, like, the AI news niche on YouTube, right? He does other stuff, too.

He does some tutorials and things like that or, like, commentary. But, you know, we just found, like, in terms of commentary, commenting on, you know, what's going on, that he had a lot more fun doing it with me than just talking to himself. And so typically, like, we're still figuring out, like, the focus. Like, we've nailed a few different formats on the podcast that are working really well. Like, we found that people really like when we share use cases.

Like, Matt shared how he used AI for his YouTube channel and also for his directory, Future Tools, right? And I shared how I used AI to, you know, go viral on Twitter and things like this, right? So people really like those, like, real-world use cases. So we're kind of exploring doing more of those and having guests on who do those kind of episodes. Like you mentioned, we did the episode with Riley Brown last week, and we've known Riley for a while. He was in our Discord.

Like, most of the people we've been bringing on, that's kind of, like, the secret there. Most of them were in our Discord. And so we already had all the guests lined up before we ever started, which really, really, really helped. It was kind of like the secret weapon of the show, really. But Riley came on, and we used a cursor and some other things to, like, create an app in about 45 minutes together. And it was fun. We just, you know, did it together, brainstormed it, you know, on the show.

And people really love that one. I think that video is currently our most popular. Like, it came out a day ago, and it's got about 9,000 views or something like that. So it's doing quite well. But yeah, it's mainly AI news stuff, you know, is on Matt's channel and everything else, whether it's, like, interviewing people or more practical use cases or anything like that is on our channel. But we do do some news stuff as well.

Like, if there's anything huge, you know, like GPT-5 comes out, you know, Matt will probably do it on his YouTube channel. Then we'll probably tell people, hey, if you want to hear even more discussion about it, you know, tune into the Next Wave podcast, and I'll be talking with, you know, he'll be talking with Nathan Lands, blah, blah, blah, that kind of thing. And so that's kind of how we do it. We do a lot of cross-promotion.

Like, our newsletters, that was kind of the thing HubSpot was surprised by. Like, HubSpot did all this stuff to help promote the show, which has helped. But, you know, quite frankly, like, our newsletters and my presence on X and his presence on YouTube is really what's, like, driven the growth of the show. Cool. Yeah. Yeah. I'm personally interested in your use case of AI, you know, how you use AI. You mentioned, you know, you use AI for Twitter, I mean, X to generate content.

And how about, you know, like a writing process? You write a newsletter, maybe you bookmark content, and how does the process work, and how do you use AI? Yeah, and I probably should check out Glass again. It's been a long time, so I haven't, haven't, I'd love to see, like, how it works now. Because I remember I wrote about it, like, a year and a half ago in my newsletter.

I think you guys reached out and said, thank you or something like that. But right now, my process is, I would say it's kind of, I think there should be more AI involved, probably. Like, it's probably too primitive, to be quite honest with you. Like, a lot of it is all on X. Like, I find stuff on X that I think is interesting. I bookmark it. The bookmark system on X is horrendous. I hate it. And I wish, I wish I had some kind of better system, because it just drives me nuts, like,

how, how bad it is. But that's currently what I do is, like, I have a folder that, like, says podcast, I have a folder that says X, you know, I have a folder that says YouTube, I have a folder that says newsletter. That's what I do. And then X would be, like, anything I want to write a thread about, like, maybe, like, I do, sometimes I do curation threads, or things like that, or if it's something I want to comment on, I will, I will bookmark it.

I used to use Notion, I just found that I, every time I got a Notion, I ended up spending more time designing the Notion than actually, like, using it. It's the kind of thing where, like, you, like, want the Notion to be perfect. And it's, like, you spend all this time in it, you're not, you're, you're, like, wasted that time. Right. So that's currently how I do it in terms of, in terms of using AI on X, like, I've experimented with using, you know, AI, like, like, ChatsBT and stuff like that to help

create thread hooks, and it does okay. I would say it does, it's better as, like, an editor, or, like, it's like a second opinion, you know, like, like, because, like, on X, the main way you go viral is just, like, on YouTube, having, like, a good thumbnail and a title. On X, it's all about the hook, right? Like, you can have, like, some horrible content underneath, and then a great hook, and it'll, quite frankly, you'll still go viral.

And so I'll typically try to have, like, a, have, like, a custom GPT, you know, so I have something on Claude, like, a project where it's, like, I tell it, here are the kind of tweet hooks that I love, and here are the kinds that I hate. And, and don't use too many emojis, don't, you know, don't use the, all the hashtags and all that. Let's give it basic guidance. And I use it as an editor to give me, like, a second opinion.

And I'll, like, copy and paste in different parts of a thread into it, like, hey, what do you think about this, this one? And does, and does, does the whole logic flow properly? Does it logically make sense, the order, the way I've ordered things? And, and so I use it a lot for, like, an editor like that. It's, it's helped a lot. I've had a lot of tweets go, like, mega viral that I used AI to edit. Like, I had one that got, like, 47 million views probably about a month ago talking about how I went from Japan back to America with my wife on honeymoon, and just,

like, some of the problems I saw in America, and, like, how I was kind of shocked by it. And I used AI to help me edit the entire, entire thing. I think I may have seen it, yeah. Yeah, you probably, you probably did. Like, most people saw it. It's, like, 40, like, the entire impressions was 100 million impressions. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I think so. Yeah, yeah.

But how do you use, you know, Chachipiri and, and Anthropic Cloud? Do you have separate use case or, yeah, I'm curious about it. You know, yeah, it's, it's kind of funny. I, I think, I think Matt started using Cloud more, like, after I showed him how great projects were, and now he's, like, all on the Cloud train. But I, but I still personally end up going back to Chachipiti, honestly. Like, I just find that, like, I have a few custom GPTs I already use.

I have one that I use for, you know, I, I go to the gym quite often. I use one for, like, tracking my gym stuff and my calories and protein. I have another custom GPT for, for my newsletter, another one for Twitter. Like, I have all these different things that I use on Chachipiti that just kind of, like, has gotten me where I'm still in the habit of using it. And plus, now I use the AI voice a lot, the advanced voice mode. I use it a lot.

I use it, like, the other day, I was, so I'm actually in the process of launching my own YouTube channel as well, or at least experimenting with it. And I used a advanced voice mode just to brainstorm out everything. Like, I pulled out a bunch of sticky notes. I'm like, here's different ideas I want to do for different videos. Let's brainstorm them and then, like, rank order them, which ones would be the most, the best ones. And then let's, let's, let's also then, like, brainstorm titles. And so I went through all of this, just sitting here with advanced voice mode.

And it was, it was pretty good. It's like, it's, it's kind of amazing how, how, how good it's getting. So I still like Chachipiti because all the different things it can do. And also I've even started using it now. It's like, I have a kind of, I've talked about this on the podcast several times, but I have a kind of weird situation where, you know, so I have an 11 year old son, who's half Japanese. I, I met my ex-wife in San Francisco.

We actually used to have two ramen restaurants in San Francisco that were pretty well known. And, and I got divorced, but now I'm out in Japan. And I've got, I've got remarried. And my new wife, she only speaks a little bit of English. And my Japanese is pretty bad. Like it's not, you know, it's bad. It's like, basically like a little kid level, you know? Right. And so we use AI for like any like deep conversations.

Like we only have like basic, we only have basic conversations in English or Japanese are usually kind of mixing both. Right. Like, you know, what are we going to eat tonight? Or like, where are we going? Like basic stuff we can communicate without AI, but like any deep conversations, we've used AI for all of that. And, and specifically ChattyPT. And so now we started using it for AI voice. I, I do feel like the Japanese side of it's not as good as the English right now, which kind of is not great.

But I'm looking forward to it getting better, but it is kind of awkward though. Cause then you got somebody else's voice in the room though, which is kind of odd. Yeah. And eventually your ChattyPT remembers and records your thoughts, so conversation and automatically answers to your wife. Oh, yeah. No, no, no. How about that? She's not going to like that. We've even had conversations. Just kidding. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Maybe. Somebody will do that. But yeah, we've actually had some conversations.

I'm like, OK, so robots are coming. What kind of robots are you OK with? And she's like, OK, the grandma-like robot in the house is OK, but not that hot, young woman robot. OK, got it. Yeah, but when did you move to Japan? I moved to Kyoto a little over two years ago. So during COVID, early on, I was pretty concerned about COVID, maybe more than a lot of people, actually. And then later, I was less concerned than most people.

It was like I had this really weird thing where right when I was thinking it was not as serious as I thought, everyone else was still totally freaking out about it. So it's kind of like the opposite of most people, where early on, I was worried about it. Nobody thought it was a problem. And then once more data came in, I was like, oh, it's fine. And the people were still freaking out. And during that time period, I was

pretty unhappy with the school system in San Francisco, quite frankly. Like seeing my son doing the online schooling was just horrible. I'm not even going to go into it. It definitely gets political, but I was very unhappy with what I saw. That's actually what made me a little bit more political, was that. And so I ended up sending my son with my ex-wife to Japan. We thought it was going to be temporary, but then we just decided to stay.

And yeah, I always loved Japan. When I was a kid, I was a huge gaming nerd. So I used to always try to find the gaming magazines, and I would see pictures of Japanese gaming magazines. I always had all these dreams of going to Japan and stuff. So I'm pretty happy. Oh, yeah. And did you know Nintendo? I remember Nintendo is in Kyoto, right? Yeah. Yeah, headquartered in Kyoto. But by the way, why did you choose Kyoto?

Because I remember, in case of Notion, Notion founders moved to Kyoto and called it, like walked in and brainstormed and created Notion 1.0. Yeah. I mean, so I grew up in a really small town. Most people don't realize this. Like I grew up in a 5,000 person town in Alabama, super small. Survived a tornado when I was a kid, trapped and everything. I had like a crazy, out of a movie kind of life. And when I went to New York, and for me, that was like,

oh my god, it's way too big. I went to San Francisco, I'm like, oh, it's kind of. Some parts of it are big, but some parts feel more relaxed. Like there's neighborhoods where you can still feel pretty relaxed, even though you're in a city, before it got a little bit crazier and stuff. Hopefully that's changing. So for me, I like cities that are not as crazy as like a New York or Tokyo. Like for me, I like visiting New York or Tokyo,

but for me, it's just way too many people. And so I love that here in Kyoto, like I'm in a neighborhood where it's just super chill. And like, there's like a little market here and there's all the grandmas and grandpas shopping and I walk by and we all nod at each other. And it's just like, even though the culture is dramatically different, but how I grew up in Alabama was the same thing. Everybody we saw, we'd like,

we'd do our hand to each other every day. And like, there was like these little social norms of interaction every single day of like kind of mutual respect kind of thing. And so for me, even though I'm obviously not Japanese, I still, I really enjoy that about the culture because it still feels similar to how I grew up in Alabama. And so, yeah, for me, I like visiting Tokyo. I love living in Kyoto. And I love seeing, is it bonsai in your back?

No, no, it's that, well, yeah, it's that style, yes. Yeah, yeah, I went, yeah. So when we first started the podcast, I was in an old Kyoto house and people loved the background. It was actually one of our first episodes with Greg Eisenberg that really blew up. I think it's got like 40,000 views or something. And the background was all like really old Japanese style. Then I moved houses like a month later and I was like, okay, what am I gonna do?

Cause like, everybody loves the style. Everyone's telling me how great it is. Now I'm moving. And so I'm in a brand new house now, but I've tried as much as possible to make it look similar, like old style Japanese. And, but actually this room is very simple. Like I did as much as possible to make it look nicer than it is. Yeah. Good to see it. Also like Reed Hoffman is like on like YouTube podcast and his background is like in Kyoto style,

old Japanese style of like, you know, cover, right? Yeah. In that sense, I was curious, you know, because Sakana AI is now, you know, based in Tokyo. I think, you know, some companies choose Tokyo or Japan as their like a headquarter. Sometimes, you know, do some business activities, you know, such as Notion, you know, started, not started, but you know, like founders moved to Kyoto and do something and then get back to some high school.

Why, I was always curious, you know, what aspect of, you know, Japan or Kyoto, Tokyo attract people? You know, I think that's a, it's complicated to answer that. It's, I think it's, in the West, I think things have changed so much that people have this kind of like yearning for the old days or something like that. I know there's some kind of weird cultural thing there where like the fact that Japan still has

some of its culture intact. I think people enjoy seeing that. It's almost like time traveling or something in some way. And I think also there's like the, in terms of the culture too, of like politeness and things like this and being efficient and all these kinds of things like that. There's some, and a lot of people grew up, you know, whether they're watching anime or playing video games, like having some kind of connection to Japanese culture.

Right? So, you know, just like how Japanese grew up watching American movies, I grew up playing Japanese video games, right? And so there's always some kind of cultural connection there, right? Yeah. But I do think, you know, but I am kind of critical about the startup scene in Japan. So happy to talk about that. I've actually been asked about this a lot by like investor friends. So in my last startup, I raised money actually from Asahi Shinbun and Taizo-san.

Taizo-san, his brother is Masayoshi-san of SoftBank. And Taizo became like a really good friend as well as his right-hand man, Atsushi Taira, Atsushi used to be the right-hand man for Masayoshi for many, many, many years. So they're like good friends of mine. And they've done a lot of, you know, trying to invest in Japanese startups and stuff like that and trying to really help. And I think one issue is, you know,

there is a cultural issue, right? Like in Japan, it still is like really looked down upon to fail, right? Or to do a startup and fail is like incredibly looked down upon. And there is more emphasis on, I think, safety in Japanese culture. So the fact that there is more emphasis on safety does mean that like startups often make less sense, right? Like it's way safer to go get a corporate job and take that job.

But, you know, but if you are pulling it off in Japan, that's great. Like there's no, I'm not saying anything bad. Like if you're doing it, that's awesome. But yeah, I think doing a startup in Japan can be quite challenging. Yeah. I see. Oh, sweet. Yeah. Oh, go ahead, go ahead. Oh, yeah. So I think you have exited, so, you know, successfully exited many startups before, but so what is the motivation or what is the purpose of, you know,

keeping doing startup at this moment? Yeah, well, I mean, like my two exits were not large. They were not, they were not like life-changing exits. Like, look, I made some decent money and I invested that money into like tech stocks and Bitcoin and Tesla and other stuff. So yeah, sure. I could like not work for sure. But, you know, for me, it's more about, you know, the moment that we're in, like thinking about how,

like I think about, I mean, cause definitely when I was younger, sure, I wanted to be like the next, like, you know, Jeff Bezos or, you know, the next Steve Jobs or sure. Like a lot of people who move out to San Francisco, that is a dream. And I did have that when I was younger. I wanted to be more successful than I have been for sure. So I do have a drive there. So maybe if I had exits for like a billion dollars,

maybe I would feel differently. But I think the main thing that drives me is, you know, like I probably said off camera, like this is a historic moment that we're in right now. Right? Like if you were to, you know, whether you believe in God or not, if you imagine you were talking to God and you asked him like to show you the book of humanity, like all of humanity, show me the book, show me all the chapters, you know?

And right now, like with like the birth of AI would be one of the largest chapters ever. Like, it doesn't matter what else we do in the future. This is one of the largest chapters there ever will be. Right? And so thinking of it from that kind of perspective, I feel like honored that I'm alive right now, that I, like all the possible times I could be alive, you know, I'm alive right now during this period.

And so anything I can do to have like a positive impact on that is important to me, you know? And so even if I just have a small impact of like, okay, because of something I did, somebody created a new company or because of something I did, somebody, you know, in the government did something slightly different that made things happen in a better way. And then we, real estate. You did gamification, so now you are in AI.

How did you decide what to work on? Yeah, I treat life like a game, so it's like whatever is fun for me at the moment. Most people don't know this, but as far as I know, I coined the term gamify. I don't know, I said it before on X and people tried to cancel me saying I made it up, but as far as I know, it's true. I used to own the name gamify, gamification. I owned all of this stuff before people were using it. It was just a natural extension of my background.

I made money playing video games when I was a kid. I was one of the top players in the game EverQuest back in the day. I was a top necromancer. That just really changed my perspective because I always, my parents were struggling to get by. At the same time, I was making money selling virtual swords online, like $1,000 a pop when I was 15. That dramatically changed my perspective on things. I've always looked at life as kind of like a game.

Take it seriously, but also try to have fun because look, maybe after we die, there's heaven, maybe there's nothing, maybe we get reincarnated, who knows? While I'm here, try to have as much fun as possible and hopefully have an impact as well. I think a good life is where you get to explore different things that interest you. Even the Hollywood thing, that didn't work out, but I spent a year and a half on it. If you would have told me when I was 15 that I was going to get to hang out with Barry Osborn and become

good friends with him and get to go on movie sets, I even got to sit in a director's chair, not as a director, but just got to sit in a chair for a day. If you told me that when I was 15, I thought you're crazy. For me, all of these experiences, they add to the things I can do. If I do something new, I have unique perspectives that other people do not have because of the unique combination of experiences and skills.

Whereas if somebody was focused on just one thing, I think they would have a more closed view of something. I think it's actually for younger people listening, I think that's a good thing. If you're super interested in some industry that other people don't think is cool right now, if you think it's cool, you think it's interesting, go do it. Just go do it. If it doesn't work out, you will gain experiences and skills in that process that will help you later in life. Also, it makes sense.

Also, I'm curious about your investor perspective, investor aspect, because you are helping and serving venture partner at a VC or a Spark Labs group and so on. That's a relatively new thing. I'll be quite transparent. For a long time, I've been interested in investing in startups, but I haven't had a tremendous amount of liquid capital. Mostly, I've invested in tech stocks, public tech stocks, to be quite honest with you. I've always thought about it because I have a lot of successful angel investor friends,

I have a lot of VC friends from all my time in Silicon Valley. I've always thought about getting more involved in venture and I still am figuring out how involved I want to get. That's what I'm currently debating. Do I go more into podcasting, which I never expected to be doing. You told me five years ago, I'd be doing podcasting. I would tell you we're nuts. There's no way I'm doing a podcast.

Or am I going to be doing more venture stuff? Where can I have the most fun and the most impact? It's how I look at it. I'm helping as a venture partner for AIM.x, which is basically an incubator and a fund in collaboration. I'm not sure if they're calling it in collaboration with the Saudi government, but it's definitely in collaboration with different parts of the Saudi government that are involved in funding it. It's not investing just in Saudi, it's investing all throughout the world into AI.

For me, it's honestly the easiest way. I get to mentor one or two startups. I'm mentoring one of the startups called Viral, which does really cool stuff around AI for video analytics and stuff like this, mentoring. It's a fun way to see what's happening in AI and also dip my toe more in the investing side as a venture partner. I was always curious about it. Have you seen any trends from talking to founders? I think investing in AI is quite

challenging right now. The opportunities are huge, but also things are changing so much, it's hard to know where to invest. Cursor is a great example. Everyone wanted to invest in cursor. It's like, okay, well, where's the next cursor? Or you've applied AI to some new industry and it's super practical and useful. Everyone's looking for those startups and they're quite hard to find. I think people don't know where to invest.

It's like, okay, well, the window for investing in an open AI competitor is definitely gone. You've already got open AI, you've got Entropiq, you've got Google, you've got Elon Musk now. Investing in the foundational models seems crazy. Everybody's trying to figure out where the opportunities are. I think some of the opportunities won't be venture scale. I think that's the challenge. I think venture is probably going to change where you will probably have more and more, and venture capitalist

friends probably won't like me saying this, but you'll probably have more and more startups that don't need a lot of capital. You probably have more and more startups that you could have one to three people operate the companies and not raise a ton of capital. There's been the whole movement towards multi-preneurship or solopreneurship or whatever, where people like a solopreneurship is like a single person business.

Multi-preneurship is like what my buddy Greg Eisenberg talks about, where it's like, okay, maybe you own a few companies with partners, and then you're the owner of all of them kind of thing, but you're not raising venture capital. But people typically, just because it's easier to go viral, they typically pick one side or the other. Like, oh, you have to go venture capital. Venture capital is the best. And all these other people are just losers doing small little companies.

Or all the other people are like, oh, you've got to do your own company. You can't take any venture capital because then you're just selling out and it's not worth it and all this. There's good parts about both. And if you're trying to go after a market where it's kind of winner takes all and you need to get there as fast as possible, you should do venture. But there's also probably more middle ground too, where there's a lot of companies where it might make sense to raise venture capital one time and

then never raise it again. If you can go and raise a million dollars and you never need more money after that, because you were able to be so efficient with AI that you could get cash flow positive and not need the money, I think you're going to see more and more companies like that. And so the way that venture funds get structured may have to change in the future because of that. So I think all the VCs, they're not really talking about that publicly a lot, but I think in the next

two or three years, you'll see that become a major discussion point is like, do the VC models have to change in some way? Yeah. Yeah. That's an interesting part. Yeah. I'm really interested in it. Yeah. Our AI is trendy. VCs are raising a lot of money from LP, but I don't know where to... I know they're investing many money to startups, but yeah, as you mentioned, I think the raise funds then grow by themselves. I think it's a great way.

And if so, investors don't know where to invest in, right? So where's the money going? Yeah. Which I mean, VC is still a great thing. People talk about when VC money gets wasted and stuff like that. It's like, well, I don't know, no matter what, the VC funds go towards progress and improving technology, right? So even for the technology startups that don't work, you're still learning things and the teams are building skills.

And then they might go off and do another startup that's super successful. So I've never understood the people who are super, super critical of VC because I think it's a net positive for society. I think it's a different topic, but so yeah, I think SaaS is dead is a trendy topic. What's a trendy topic in single parent line? So do you have any thoughts around this? Oh yeah, SaaS is dead. Next. No, no, no, no, no. I guess tech HubSpot's kind of SaaS, right? So I got to be careful what I say.

But I do think that any very simplistic SaaS that's not super ingrained into companies, that's easy to replace. Yeah, those could be in trouble, especially because it's going to get easier. You think about things like V0 from Vercel, or the Ripple AI agent, or all these. Like when these get better, you're going to be able, or like Bolt, when these get better, you're going to be able to take screenshots of SaaS apps. If they're very simplistic, you'll be able to take screenshots of SaaS apps and just copy them,

clone them. And then let's say you're someone like me who has some distribution, that's a huge unfair advantage. I don't think I'd want to do that because I think it's just so evil, but it is kind of a pirate thing to do, right? Just go out there and copy a SaaS and apply more distribution power to it and then win the market. So I think you'll see that. So distribution is going to be more important than ever.

I mean, heck, that is one reason we partnered with HubSpot, to be quite frank with you. The collaboration with a major company that has major distribution is very important, in my opinion. And it's going to be more important in the future. Whether it's a brand that has distribution or individuals, distribution is going to matter more for SaaS in the future.

So I think you'll see more and more founders get involved in doing YouTube, more involved on X, things like that, because they'll realize, oh, yeah, if you have distribution, not only is your startup have a higher chance of success, but also you can try more things. It's very easy to try something when you have an audience. And if it doesn't work, who cares? People forget like a week later. So, yeah. Yeah. And I remember the talk with Greg Idenburg.

He mentioned about you've got to build a tool, but you need to have a distribution channel. And that totally makes sense. And yeah, I really like it. And also, I think that the person who realized it, Elon Musk, you know, both Twitter, X, he got a really great distribution channel. Yeah. He's been doing it for a long time. Who else has been doing it for a long time? Donald Trump. Donald Trump was in movies when I was a kid. He's in Home Alone 2.

And he was on the news all the time. He always done some way to be in the news. And that was how we used to do it back in the day. That was like the old, you know, before Twitter, there was like the TV news and he was playing the TV news game by saying outrageous things that they had had to talk about. And you get free marketing. And so, yeah, it is interesting that Elon Musk has like mastered that game and like realized before other people like, yeah, like distribution matters so much.

And yeah, I think more founders are going to start to realize that. I see. But do you see any like founders or like startups are really good at like distribution? So maybe like, you know, collaborating on YouTube, collaborating with like major distributors, big companies, like what are the ways to do it? But any like hacking? Oh, yeah. Yeah, it's hard, you know.

So, you know, on one side, I'm saying the distribution is super important. But on the other side, yeah, you can see like pretty bad examples as well. Especially like YouTube influencers who start companies like what was the Snackables one or whatever they're calling it, Feastables, you know, and they got mold on the food or whatever. So they're definitely bad examples of like people who have no business experience getting involved in businesses that, you know, obviously I wouldn't suggest that.

But I guess I was more commenting on like a longer term trend that I think we will see. Like Elon Musk is a better example of somebody who actually knows how to do companies, but also realizes that like, hey, you can spend 30 minutes a day tweeting and sharing your thoughts and that you'll get the distribution just from that. Yeah, thank you.

And so, yeah, before ending, but you know, I have several questions, but you know, about one is about future, you know, what's the long term vision for Lua.com? You know, what you do now, and also the podcast you do. Yeah. I'm curious, what do you see in five years, next five years, ten years, because ACI coming soon, ASI maybe in a few years. How does your Lua.com fit in? You know, I'm still figuring that out. I mean, I'll be honest, like I like writing my newsletter, but I don't think that's going to be my long term thing, you know, like I'll probably continue

doing newsletter. But I don't know if that will be the main thing for Lua.com long term. Like I still feel like there's some bigger, there's something bigger I could be doing with Lua.com. And so not just an AI newsletter. So I am still wanting to use Lua.com for something in my life before I die. I have a few ideas, but I'm not like really willing to talk about them yet. And they're just ideas. They're not like, oh, this is what I'm going to do.

So it's definitely up in the air what I do with Lua.com. People try to buy it from me all the time. I'm like, look, the amount of money I would want for it is so ridiculous that you would just, you'd be shocked to even talk about it. Like, you know, I'll talk to you if you're talking about like 30 million, but if it's like less than that, I don't even want to talk. And so and then most of those conversations just end.

You know, and so that's kind of, you know, I have no intention of selling it because like, I'm okay financially. And it's like, for me, it's an amazing name that I would love to own, you know, and I'm even slightly nostalgic about it because of just, I started with Barry Osborne and stuff. And so in terms of the future with the podcast, you know, I hope that we can become like, like, so I think what's going to happen, like our podcast is not gigantic, but it's definitely been growing like really fast, like our chart, our charts like this.

I mean, so it's very, very steady growth on YouTube and audio. I think on YouTube in seven months, I think we're already like top three in the category, I believe, which is pretty good. And I think CubSpot's gonna be investing a lot more into the show. So I'm excited for that. And there's some other things we're working on that I can't really talk about yet. But, you know, as this transition happens, like, you know, to like the age of AI with AGI and ASI, I'm hoping,

you know, I can do as good of a service to humanity as possible using the podcast to help people show them like, because it's gonna be a scary time to write like people's job, like a lot of people gonna lose their jobs, and a lot of things are going to change and the way you work will have to change. And so to be a to be a guide for as many people as possible, it's kind of my mission with the podcast to like, okay, as this transition is happening, like explain people, here's what's

happening and try to explain it to before it happens a little bit before too, right? So they're not totally shocked and caught off guard. But as the transition does happen to more like, you know, to ASI, helping show people how they can use AI to make their life better and still contribute to the world and how to deal with it. So that's kind of my mission with the podcast. You know, I think, you know, I don't want to be doing it 10 years from now, but you know, definitely, you know,

three to five years, we will be doing it. And hopefully during that period, helping as many people as possible. You know, ASI, like, what do I think about ASI? And like, you know, artificial superintelligence and like, where things are going? I don't know, I have like, you know, vague ideas of what it could mean. But I feel like, you know, I am a human and who knows, like, maybe I'm, you know, my intellect is obviously, obviously, my intellect is limited.

And I can't imagine every possible scenario. So I, I do my best to, you know, imagine where things could be heading and try to position myself and my family to be, you know, to be ready for that. I think a lot, you know, I talked to my son about this stuff, which people think is kind of crazy. But I think it's a good thing to be doing. My son's 11. I talked to him about AI stuff all the time, and explained to him, like, where things are going.

And he already, like, thinks about his future in his life and stuff about, you know, what it's gonna mean for him. And I try to show it to him too, because like, when I first explained it to him, it was a little bit scary for him, you know, and my parenting style, though, is that's, that's better for him to build resilience to be strong and to actually understand the world you live in versus like hiding, I think is better. And so I tried to explain things to him.

And at first, he was a little bit scared. But then when I started showing him different things, he got so excited, right? Like, like, we used a replicates AI agent, and build a little website together, like a little League of Legends website thing. And he thought that was so cool. He's like, Oh, I got Roblox, or he had a Minecraft, Minecraft and League of Legends. And he like he had that on there, like a little guide website. And he was just blown away.

And then brainstorming what to write in, we used ChatsBT's advanced voice mode, we were sitting and chatting with the AI to help figure out what to make. And that whole process was just like blowing his mind now, you know, and he started talking to me about kind of stuff he could do when he gets older using all of this. And so I think that's, that's, right now, when I think about ASI, I literally just think about my son, how do I prepare him? And that's, that's what I think about, honestly.

And that's how I'm currently preparing him is just making sure he understands what's possible and where things are headed and making sure he's excited about it. I think he's gonna be in a future where literally, we're gonna be able to dream up stuff with AI, and then have robots help us build stuff into the real world. Like that, that's like the kind of future we're headed. And it's, that's gonna be so exciting. Like we can, we, you know, it's almost like a new frontier, right? Like, when I was a kid, it was like, okay,

you dream about all this stuff about going to the frontier, right? You know, and going to these new places, like imagine being, you know, Christopher Columbus, discovering America or whatever, like how exciting that is. But like, that hasn't really existed for us. But this does feel like a new frontier where like, we're gonna be like reshape what Earth looks like and what other planets look like. And so I'm super excited about that potential.

Yeah, I also think it's a great way to expose to, you know, your kids to technology and, you know, hands on and yeah, understand what's gonna happen. And yeah, yeah, that's a great way. Yeah, he loves it. So I, I highly suggest to other people to do that. And actually, that's one reason I think about doing my own YouTube is I might talk about more that about that kind of stuff, too, like daily life stuff, like how you can use AI, you know, because that that's, you know, I think a lot of people are gonna be really surprised,

like how much things are going to change. And they're still thinking about like, okay, just the traditional education system, and then they're gonna get a normal job in 10 years from now. And I was like, it's like, no, the world is going to be the world to be very different in 10 years. It's not going to look like that anymore. And so just trying to make sure he's more flexibly minded about these things and understand what's possible is super important.

Everyone should be doing that for their kids. Yeah, I totally Yeah, agree with that. Yeah, I think so. And, and since you know, our audience are like aspiring fight founders, builders and data to have some I know you already shared a lot of advice, but if you add something, yeah. For founders, I mean, now is the time to build. Like, if there's ever been a good time, like, there's been different time periods where it was good to build startups.

Like, when I first got involved in Silicon Valley, you know, I had read, like, Sarah Lacy's book talking about, like, Digg and all this stuff. And I had my own startup before that. And I was like, okay, cool, I'll go up to Silicon Valley. It sounds so exciting, like, reading her book. And there was a few periods that were really great for startups. Like, there was, like, when the iPhone came out, that was great. When Facebook became huge, that was great.

I had several friends who built, you know, vast fortunes off of those platforms, right? Like, I had a friend who made a fortune off of freaking Facebook apps, like, stuff that seemed super, super, you know, scammy and stuff like that. And, like, people made, now, people don't talk about this, but, like, everybody knows tons of people who made, like, tens of millions of dollars on these, like, stupid Facebook apps, right? There's tons of

these people. And so that was cool. But, like, and that was a great opportunity financially, but it wasn't that impactful. Now there's going to be an opportunity where it's actually impactful humanity what you do. And it's going to be incredibly financially lucrative. Like, the people who win in AI are going to, you know, the top 10 billionaires or trillionaires, probably trillionaires, the top 10 trillionaires in 10 to 20 years, they're all going to be people

who did something interesting with AI. And so this is, like, the best time ever to be doing a startup, especially anything related to AI, because, and be as ambitious as possible, I think, too, right? Like, be as ambitious as possible, especially if you're raising venture capital. Yeah, if you have an ambitious idea, raise a shit ton of venture capital and go for it. Like, now is the time to do that.

And if it doesn't work out, look, as long as you make a big splash, actually do something interesting, and don't just freaking waste the money, as long as you actually do a good job and do something impactful. If it doesn't work out, there'll be other opportunities for you after that. So yeah, so that's that's what I suggest to people. And also, while you're doing it, don't spend too much time on X. But at the same time, also make sure you're being heard as well, like the balance, right? Like, make sure you get your work done in the day.

But then also after that, share what you're doing and share, you know, your thoughts on things and make sure you have a voice as well. Oh, yeah, I love it. Yeah, great advice. Thank you. Yeah. So yeah, this is the last question. Okay, since good, yeah, grassroots platform where people share what they're reading, learning as the legacy. So we want to ask you this question. And yeah, so what is the legacy or impact? Do you want to leave behind for future generations? It's a big question.

What's the legacy I want to leave behind? Oh, man. Geez, I mean, if I was being honest, you know, I wish I was like Sam Altman and had created OpenAI. That's the kind of legacy I would have loved to have, you know, had, to be quite honest with you. But as of now, like, as long, I don't I don't really feel like I have to personally be remembered. Honestly, I don't really care too much about that.

But I want to feel like on my deathbed that that my, my son is set up in a good way for his future and that humanity is up, you know, for a positive future. And so anything I can do, you know, in that area, that's what I care about. So that's, that's one reason I do the podcast, right? I think to help to help get people more optimistic about technology again, like realizing like, yeah, we can do freaking amazing things like don't be so pessimistic and negative about everything

and focus on, hey, screw this person and screw that person, like, just, we can build awesome stuff together. We're always not fighting each other. And so that's kind of anything I can do to kind of push that message forward. Even if that's like a small piece of my legacy. That's what I'm focused on. I'm not sure if I exactly answered your question. It's like, it's a hard question. Like, what legacy do you want to leave? But that's probably the best I have today.

Oh, yeah. Beautiful. Yeah. Beautiful answer. Thank you. Yeah. And thank you for, you know, joining today and sharing your insights and experience everything with us. Thanks so much. Yeah. Thank you. It's been awesome. Maybe you guys should come on the next web podcast sometime. Oh yeah. Happy to. Yeah. Anytime.