The United States is 3 human lifetimes old.
That’s it. In those short years we invented the light bulb, the telephone, the airplane, the transistor and the internet. We turned a few wooded colonies into the most powerful nation in the history of the world.
Founders overestimate how hard it is to become a top 100 expert on most subjects.
For most things you need to solve, there’s usually a very clear path: just go do the work, obsessively, and become friends with everyone else doing it.
Nominal translunar injection burn complete. The Artemis II crew is officially on the way to the Moon.
America is back in the business of sending astronauts to the Moon. This time, farther than ever before.
Everyone liquid and mobile is heading for the exits of Miami/UAE.
Everyone illiquid and building is staying chained to the AI engine rooms in NYC/SF.
Everyone else is struggling and indulging in the resentment politics of communism or populism.
Odd timeline.
Satya invited Google to the party to "make it dance"
But then it turned out Google was a level-99 kinesthetic savant that mastered breakdancing on the spot and stole the whole show
Be me, Google.
King of the internet. Search, ads, YouTube. Printing money while everyone else tried to catch up.
Got bored. Dropped the Transformer into the world.
Like tossing a magic spellbook into a crowd.
“Here, have fun,” I said.
Boom. Chaos.
OpenAI, Anthropic, everyone running wild with my invention.
They call it a revolution. Cute.
People whisper, “Google’s dead.”
Haha, sure.
I build TPUs, train Gemini, tell Jensen to help the others.
Let the kids play.
Then I wake up.
Search growth back.
Gemini dominates.
People use it, and pay.
GPC exploding.
Oh, and guess what?
The founder is back to coding.
Daddy is back they said.
The race is on again.
And I’m still the one setting the track.
ai company: mine gold
nvidia: sell shovels
google:
mine gold, sell shovel, distribute gold, export gold, make shovel, rent shovel, make jewlery, sell jewlery, distribute the jewlery, other jewleries, make cars that ships the jewlery, make chips that make the cars, make recsys to sell the jewlery, make the filesystem to make the recsys, make golden quantum computer, make gold videos, images, audio, ......
A commercial company producing 3 Nobel Prize winners in 2 years vs Zuck spending hundreds of millions to buy talents then putting them under Alexandre Wang — which talent strength do you admire more?