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Had a great time talking about technology in Kentucky with @middletechpod! Thanks for having me and Winnie on the show!

There is a worldwide culture battle playing out publicly at a scale we’ve never witnessed before thanks to billionaires that care deeply about western values. They have put their money behind the things that made them billionaires in the first place… their western values, work ethics, and convictions. Those three things are what allowed them to build great businesses that have pushed America forward. When you combine this engagement of powerful civilians with the advent of GenAI, you have a renewed alignment between western values and Silicon Valley. First and foremost, this is because we are entering a new Industrial Revolution in which unimaginable wealth will be made. Secondly, Silicon Valley is becoming aware of their failed ability to sustain responsible decision making as it relates to social media platforms and speech. They were compromised letting fear and profits consume them. Over years, we witnessed a slow erosion of western values and an infiltration of competing ideologies that made their way into our minds, government, and our institutions leading to racism, censorship, and a lack of meritocracy ultimately coming to a head with the reckless globalization and Kamala Harris presidential campaign. The public had their eyes opened to where that path was heading and made a clear statement in the election to change course. Why is this all so important? Why is Silicon Valley getting aligned on this issue all of a sudden? Why did Elon Musk buy Twitter? Because of AI. I think Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Mark Zuckerberg, Jensen Huang, Alex Karp, and many others are viewing this as an inflection point for the future of AI supremacy and a continuation of western values as they were written when our country was founded. If we do not take western values seriously now, it will be almost impossible later as our values spill over into social threads and training data. The stakes have never been higher for Silicon Valley or western values. They failed us with social media and cannot do it again with AI. Today’s video released by Zuck is a major domino falling as Facebook dominates global conversation. A topic that has not yet hit mainstream is “Sovereign AI.” This will be what restores western values or kills it. Jensen Huang has traveled the globe talking about this but the cycle of GenAI is still too early for the masses to understand this concept and implement it; however, I think Elon and Peter Thiel do understand it hence the Twitter acquisition and the backing of the Trump administration and his appointments. Without the snap back to clear, high conviction values in America, we will not take full advantage of this concept and will fall as a nation as time goes on. We will literally lose our values to training datasets that are too diluted. An AI trained on all values has no values at all. But this isn’t true of just AI. That’s just why Silicon Valley cares. The rest of us should care because this is our country and we should take pride in it and our values. Europe and Canada are next. Align on your values or risk extinction or at the very least a major dilution of the culture that makes you special.

Is there a way to score AI models based on how truthful they are? Let’s call it the Galileo Index. Suggestions welcome.

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If you played this game as a kid, you're an entrepreneur now

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Can’t believe it’s been 3 years a since I last appeared on the terrific ⁦@middletechpod⁩! A must-listen for entrepreneurs! Evan and Logan are outstanding and we covered a lot of ground—from renewables to the courage to dare greatly. Podcast drops next week!

Who is going to build a public facing site that runs every available transcript of our political officials through an LLM that creates a dashboard for the number of times they contradict themselves, state mis-information, or mention a topic? Seems valuable and is possible now.

Many organizations are about to be disrupted because their organizational structure and the bureaucracy within them will prevent them from being nimble and moving with AI. We will look back at the Twitter acquisition as one of the best acquisitions in history that set an example for getting out in front of a disruptive force by removing the people and bureaucracy that were destined to prevent Twitter from playing a meaningful role in AI. Ad revenue will likely pale in comparison to feeds and search API revenue for powering AI experiences. Many more opportunities like Twitter are playing out in healthcare, finance, consulting, and law. Revenue models will change. Access to data and building an architecture and culture for AI will be priority. Smaller more nimble orgs will win while those staying big and protectionist will lose.

If there is an NCAA record for making a mistake then immediately making up for it, Reed Sheppard would have the record.

Bring back the platoons.

We are not prepared for this to exist...

Really great read on an important topic within the real estate industry. The market is doing its thing 🙌 "When a Realtor association and an MLS are intertwined, they often run into challenges, such as underfunding for the MLS and high turnover of talented workers. There's not a lot of financial gain for someone to come in and run a volunteer-structured organization," Talent should be a topic the real estate industry discusses much more often. realestatenews.com/2024/01/1…

That’s also called socialism.

OPEN UP THE DATA! The idea that MLSs can gate keep data/products for their agents and consumers is not going to last much longer. Thoughts 👇 MLSs are local monopolies. They own all the listing data in the regions they operate but have gotten away with it to date because of their non-profit/for profit/NAR affiliated smoke screen that does an effective job of protecting those on the inside while leaving those on the outside scratching their heads about how convoluted the whole thing is. The public has no idea and that is changing fast. For example... if you tell someone that Zillow owns ZERO of the data on their platform, they would be flabbergasted. That is MLS data passed through to Zillow. They are a consumer front end built on the MLSs. MLSs play an absolutely critical role in the residential real estate market and should remain that way going forward. We need to protect the MLS network and its decentralized nature but be highly critical of their technology and governance practices. From a technology standpoint, they are stuck in the past and have failed to adapt to the times we are in. Mostly because of capital and talent. They haven't figured out how to monetize/manage capital and that prevents them from having the talent to push change. Their inability to figure out capital management stems from their lack of understanding of how to leverage their data. They would rather protect it than put it to work... "Oh but protecting that data protects consumers!" To be more specific, they do not have modern data and API practices. They restrict access politically and technologically. Proptech startups do not have open APIs to experiment with and build with. Founders must navigate 2-4 layers of approval before ever getting to look at an API and the time it takes to get through those layers is outrageous and varies from market to market. There are 500 MLSs across the country and startups have to go to each of those for direct, clean access to the data. If they had more accessible data/APIs, they would have more technology being built, more opportunity to see what the market needs, and thus more opportunities to potentially monetize. This could also go in the opposite direction and the market could just eat away their revenue... The primary excuse the industry gives is a somewhat valid one... the decentralized nature of it and the way it evolved from physical books to now internet listings has been a challenging and long road. That is true but it is still just an excuse and the market doesn't care. Many people are trying to solve the issue and luckily the market is going to force it to happen faster. The market is speaking on commissions and it will start to speak on the data monopolies that are the MLSs. Those two things are ultimately the same thing... A massively bureaucratic industry that is trying to shield the consumer from understanding what is actually going on behind the scenes in order to maintain pricing power because the only way they have figured out how to make money involves colluding with each other to force consumers down a narrow path to home ownership. Where else do we see this that leads to inflated costs and poor public awareness? Healthcare. This will not last much longer as more people are speaking up and fighting. It was nice to hear @theallinpod speak about the industry. We need much more conversation on this topic. As a founder that just got their ass beat by this industry, I am hopeful and optimistic but also still amazed by how opaque and slow moving it all is. The saddest part of it for me was the energy on the inside. There was very little young talent building exciting things. Opening it up will ultimately lead to more housing affordability. The USA is the envy of the world when it comes to the housing market. It is more positive than it is negative, but as affordability decreases and more suits are filed, the pressure will lead to big, much needed changes. The main thing we all need is more transparency and accessibility. That starts with internal governance on the MLS boards (mostly made up of those colluding together) and open APIs. @Jason Keep this topic in the conversation... housing affordability is a topic people want to hear and MLSs and NAR play huge role in that. seattletimes.com/business/re…

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