Shaan Puri
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"He's talking to ChatGPT about like what he could potentially do. That gives him an idea which is to sequence the DNA of the tumor versus the DNA of his other cells."
"I'm addicted to the app. I use it all the time. I've probably made 40 or 50 songs. I've burned tens of thousands of credits on this thing."
"then using Grok designs a single-shot custom vaccine"
"I don't need to use Tableau anymore, you know? Like I just make my own dashboards in notion and I created a script to auto update it."
"using AlphaFold figures out the shape of the thing"
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"There's a book called The Blue Zones. I read it 10 years ago or something and I was like this is my Bible for like living a long healthy life."
"then using Grok designs a single-shot custom vaccine"
"using AlphaFold figures out the shape of the thing"
"He used AlphaFold which is the Google DeepMind product for predicting protein folding structure."
"He's talking to ChatGPT about like what he could potentially do. That gives him an idea which is to sequence the DNA of the tumor versus the DNA of his other cells."
"It's like ChatGPT. You just describe, you drop a pin where you're going to put the home."
"I don't need to use Tableau anymore, you know? Like I just make my own dashboards in notion and I created a script to auto update it."
"I'm addicted to the app. I use it all the time. I've probably made 40 or 50 songs. I've burned tens of thousands of credits on this thing."
"I was a big Tony Robbins guy. I went to the seminars. I used to listen to the audio tapes and go for walks."
"I love that book, Sam... I love that book. I just the reason I like these old books is because some of them the rules have stood the test of time"
"I just got the power of positive thinking. That's another one from the 1930s. I just love these old books"
"Rework was a fantastic book. Your website right now is basically kind of like Rework. It's just 30 chapters of stuff we believe."
"If there was one company that I could empty the tank of my life savings into, I would be pouring it into this, which means it's a contender for Sarah's list for me."
"I think Harvey is a perfect example of like as AI happens right now, there's going to be these winners for the decade. The legal one is like a clear-cut obvious in-your-face vertical one that will be pretty big."
"He uploaded it to Claude. He said, 'Here's my stuff. Research what it costs. List it. Talk to people on my behalf.' And Claude sold all of them."
"Microsoft came and paid Ninja like $20 million to leave Twitch."
"When we got acquired by Twitch, the top streamer on Twitch was this guy named Ninja."
"He got sponsored by Red Bull. He was on TV all the time."
"Dude, you got to buy Bitcoin, Ethereum. You got to buy this. You got to put some money over here."
"Dude, you got to buy Bitcoin, Ethereum. You got to buy this. You got to put some money over here."
"I don't need to use Tableau anymore, you know? Like I just make my own dashboards in notion."
"He made this thing called karpathy.ai/job and you can see this on the screen here. Basically what he did is he took all of the US jobs from the Bureau of Labor."
"Pokémon Go was like the hit game. You would take out your phone and your phone would just be on like kind of camera mode. You'd walk around a city and then you would like discover a Pokemon."
"We talked about Handshake that company that was basically like a college student internship job board type of product."
"If you've ever seen like the Google Street View thing, right? Like Google would send out a car with a camera that's rotating on top taking pictures of everything around it."
"Pokémon Go, the company behind it, Niantic, has that data for real world behavior."
"Anthropic did $6 billion in revenue in a single month last month, which is insane."
"The biggest thing that OpenAI or Anthropic is going to try to roll out and make mainstream."
"The fact that Ozempic and these weight loss drugs seem to have done something that sounded like too good to be true. It's like well there is a magic pill for weight loss."
"They're creating a new high school using alpha schools technology, which we've talked about before, the AI education software that Joe Lamont has put a billion dollars into building."
"When we did OpenAI, it was a hundred billion dollar valuation at the time. It's now close to 800 billion now."
"It creates like an AI video of like a home walkthrough for you using kind of like a midjourney type of thing."
"It renders it all using Unreal Engine. It renders the whole thing in front of you."
"SoundCloud has 40 million music creators. So that's 40 million people who around the world who actually have musical talent."
"She got a job at Airbnb and that stock package, which over a 4-year period is about $200,000 worth of stock, 5xed and she made a million bucks."
"You sold your company just now to MyFitnessPal."
"You can compound some interest or rate of return 10% a year in the S&P 500 and over every 10 years that's going to or every seven years that's going to double."
"You could copy his voice using 11Labs."
"Christina is the CEO of this, I don't know, $5 billion tech company, close to 10 billion maybe at some point called Vanta"
"her rule is basically you count backwards 5 4 3 2 1 and then you just physically move towards doing it before your brain can stop you"
"Angela Duckworth, I think we talked about it, has this book called grit and it's also been proven that grit is more likely to make you succeed than IQ"
"he decides to create like Jarvis from the movies. He's like, why don't I just have an AI assistant that lives on my computer like on my desk and I just tell it to do things and it could just do it"
"She also was the first investor in Replit early on... Replit's now like a I don't know what is it three four five billion company"
"He builds like a PDF side project of sorts called PSPDFKit and it actually becomes like the gold standard for like a PDF library for developers"
"Thanks to the folks at HubSpot for doing the research, making this document, and making it available to all you guys."
"Thanks to the folks at HubSpot for doing the research, making this document, and making it available to all you guys."