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> I never heard him say anything even remotely interesting about ai

Or about anything at all really. I find his blog posts and talks banal and boring, or self-aggrandizing otherwise ("you can bend the world to your will") it was always baffling to me how this guy could achieve this much. I'm probably missing something.

>>mojuba+(OP)
Yeah. pg/chesky/masayoshi must be really dumb or sth.

>>avindr+22
Masayoshi really is dumb. PG is smart but he’s a venture capitalist, and so is Sam. His strength is in helping building multi billion dollar ventures and that’s how he ran the company, so I can see how he could run into ideological conflict with the nonprofit true believers.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2023/11/08/companies/s...

>>mojuba+(OP)
"how this guy could achieve this much"

With all the wisdom that I have gathered in life, I can tell you that achievement- more often than not- is mostly the product of circumstances.

(That doesn't mean I believe in equal opportunities leading to equal outcomes.)

>>rg111+8a
It's circumstances and opportunism.

>>mojuba+(OP)
He achieved because he manage to befriend a bunch of very rich people who are financing him to eventually take ownership of the technology