This is actually one of the things I think people don't realize about Silicon Valley.

You start with what's the amazing thing that you can suddenly create?

Lots of these companies, and you go, what's your business ball?

I don't know.

They're like, yeah, we're going to try to work it out.

I can create something amazing here.

And that's actually one of the fundamental, call it the religion of Silicon Valley

and the knowledge of Silicon Valley

that I so much love and admire and embody.

Reid Hoffman has spent decades helping shape how we connect, work, and build online from PayPal and

LinkedIn to open AI and beyond. In this episode, I'm joined by Reed and A16Z general partner

Alex Rampel to talk about how AI is reshaping

not just work but what it means to be human.

We discuss how far current AI models can go, what's holding them back, and why the next

breakthroughs will likely come from places Silicon Valley isn't even looking.

We also talk about friendship, meaning, and how to stay grounded in an era of exponential change

when our tools might soon think, reason, and even feel alongside us.

Let's get into it.

Reid, welcome things and scene podcast.

It's great to be here.

So, Reid, you're one of the most successful Web 2 investors of that era, Facebook, LinkedIn, obviously, which you co-created, Airbnb, many, many others, and you had several frameworks that helped you do that, one of which was the Seven Deadly Sins, which we talk about often in love. As you're thinking about AI investing, what's a framework worldview that you take to your AI investing? So obviously, we're all looking through a glass darkly, looking through a fog with strobe lights that, you know, are hard to understand what's going on. So we're all navigating this new universe. So I don't know if I have as Christopher from it. The seven deadly stins still work because that's a question of what is psychological infrastructure across all 8 billion plus human beings.

But I'd say there's a couple things.

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