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Azeem Azhar's Exponential View

A tour of the tech boom — 5 waves you need to understand

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View

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51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Azeem Azhar welcomes Packy McCormick, founder and investor at Not Boring, to discuss the current tech landscape – reflections on Web3, why bits and atoms are cool again and how AI and energy are reshaping the world as we know it.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I go pretty regularly, I talk to people in the labs.

0:03.0

It's pretty consistent what they're saying.

0:05.0

We keep discovering new predictable scaling laws,

0:07.0

and we don't see a point where this trajectory stops.

0:11.0

Half of global GDP that was not an addressable market before is now an addressable market.

0:15.0

Where this leads is that you kind of have to be the best version of yourself

0:19.0

and figuring out what you want to get out of all of this,

0:21.6

assuming that we have kind of world historical superpowers right at our fingertips.

0:25.0

In a way, we do have those amazing machines today.

0:28.5

And yet a lot of people don't feel they get an opportunity to express themselves in the best way.

0:33.4

So there is something that is not about the technology that gets in the way that construct a sort of consumptive takeer, not maker culture.

0:41.1

It does take some like activation energy to say like, give in abundance.

0:44.6

How can I go experience a world in a different way than I could have before?

0:47.8

I think this is like a real challenge.

0:49.2

Instead of like a have and have not to say know thyself and know thyself not or do and do nots.

0:53.9

You talked about there

0:54.8

being a startup in every one of these physical industries that we've ignored. Name an old company

1:00.0

that's 50 years old, that is worth over $100 billion market cap. And there's now a credible

1:04.4

startup going to attack and hopefully rebuild better using technology and a role doing, you know,

1:09.5

really interesting stuff and events of being a modern prime. Obviously, SpaceX, the modern launch company. But I think there's

1:14.2

that for like everything. Physical hard things made out of atoms, they have a visceral, tangible

1:19.7

quality. And it's amazing to see the entrepreneurial community start to care about that.

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