Jake Becraft

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"But the economics of Spotify didn't work in 2001. If Spotify's entire market was through your desktop computer, you could have never built Spotify. But you can when they're smartphones."

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"What is AWS by the way? And it was like an explosion... maybe owning all levels of the infrastructure and deployment ecosystem plus the brand plus then building your brands on top plus also kind of owning the internet in a way"

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"whether they're made by a human with Microsoft Word stitching amino acids together, whether they're made by an LLM that knows exactly all the pieces that are going to make this"

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"And you could argue that Tesla has done that as well. And I think that there's an argument to be had there."

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"I think every entrepreneur in the world should read is the correlated first public year to last year of Bezos's reign over Amazon investor letters. There's like a a Google Docs link online that someone just put them all into 178 page PDF."

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"You have Deep Mind and AlphaFold creating the ability to design almost any protein you can imagine to do anything."

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"an example of a platform would would actually be Moderna's RNA vaccine platform. So people like to say this thing about the COVID vaccine about how how Moderna built a COVID vaccine in 62 days"

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"What the biggest blockbuster of the last few years is a drug called Kitruda from Merc. Incredible miracle drug. Won a Nobel Prize a few years ago. In melanoma, if you respond to that drug, a lot of patients do, that's great."

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"It's an abbreviation for the American Society of Clinical Oncology. It's a meeting every summer in Chicago that sort of is the big breakthroughs in clinical medicine for oncology. It's the top of the top in a lot of ways for people, you know, big results, small results. We had presented this photo there"