LIMITLESS: This Is Far Bigger Than The Internet Boom | Shaun Maguire

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🗓️ 12 May 2025

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Shaun Maguire, partner at Sequoia and former physicist turned investor, joins the Limitless Podcast to explore why we’re on the verge of a technological renaissance. From AI and silicon photonics to humanoid robots and space infrastructure, Shaun makes the case that the next 20 years will make the internet boom look tame. We dive deep into why America needs 10 SpaceX-level companies, the return of hardware innovation, the energy constraints of the future, and how frontier technologies like Neuralink and Mars colonization might reshape civilization. ------ 💫 LIMITLESS | SUBSCRIBE & FOLLOW https://pod.link/1813210890 https://www.youtube.com/@Limitless-FT https://x.com/LimitlessFT ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🪙FRAX | SELF SUFFICIENT DeFi https://bankless.cc/Frax 🦄UNISWAP | SWAP ON UNICHAIN https://bankless.cc/unichain 🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 NETWORK https://bankless.cc/Mantle 🌐SELF | PROVE YOUR SELF https://bankless.cc/Self 🟠HEMI | BTC & ETH, ONE NETWORK https://bankless.cc/hemi ------ TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Intro 6:36 Who’s Shaun Maguire? 9:24 Investing in the AI Age 13:06 Hardware Manufacturing 21:58 Hardware Precedes Software Revolutions 42:20 Energy 49:53 Space Solar Reflectors 55:45 Space Economy 1:04:15 Elon Musk 1:14:24 Robotics 1:17:39 Neuralink 1:25:22 Doom Scenarios 1:32:02 Closing Thoughts ------ RESOURCES Shaun Maguire https://x.com/shaunmmaguire Sequoia Capital https://www.sequoiacap.com/ Josh Kale https://x.com/Josh_Kale David Hoffman https://x.com/TrustlessState ------ Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here: https://www.bankless.com/disclosures⁠

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0:00.0	If America can stay at the cutting edge of space,
0:02.5	gets the cutting edge of silicon photonics,
0:04.3	if Tesla and then others can basically get
0:07.6	to the cutting edge of humanoid robotics,
0:09.7	which is something that, like, I strongly believe, is...
0:12.3	Why fundamentally, cheap space travel will unlock
0:16.0	so many things that will actually turn into
0:18.3	quality of life improvements for the average person
0:20.4	who's left on planet
0:21.3	Earth.
0:22.3	You know, people have this mental model that space is very...
0:25.6	Picture a guy who treats the frontier like his backyard.
0:29.3	That's Sean McGuire.
0:30.5	And he was gracious enough to join us on the show today to discuss energy breakthroughs, factory
0:34.2	floors humming with humanoid robots, brain machine computers, and space exploration.
0:38.5	In fact, Sean's even invested in a company who shoots satellites into outer space to beam
0:42.6	light rays back at Earth and turn night into day. This is, it's crazy stuff. And he walks us
0:47.0	through exactly which of these sci-fi visions are already sneakily here today, which will up
0:51.1	end entire industries in months, and which have the opportunity to reshape
0:54.2	entire civilizations over the next couple of years. Some of the timelines even left me speechless.
0:58.9	And that is what the Limitless podcast is all about. So Bankless Nation, welcome to Limitless,
1:05.4	where we explore the frontier technologies that are poised to reshape our world. I'm David Hoffman,
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