The $2 Trillion Mind | Nicolai Tangen
The Knowledge Project
Shane Parrish
4.7 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2026
⏱️ 63 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | If you have really, really high ambitions, you achieve great things even if you fail. |
| 0:04.8 | If you have low ambitions, you achieve nothing even if you succeed. |
| 0:08.1 | Where do you think the tech sector evolves from here? |
| 0:11.0 | Well, that's the trillion dollar question, right? |
| 0:14.2 | Luckily, you manage what, two trillion? |
| 0:17.1 | When I give presentations at universities, I ask people, hey, anybody here who thinks differently |
| 0:21.7 | from other people who kind of think that they are weird, hands up. So typically less than 10%. |
| 0:26.5 | I said, you guys, you're great. We'd love to hire you. And then the other 90%, you're like, |
| 0:30.4 | you're sorry, guys. You're just like everybody else. You're never going to make much money. |
| 0:34.3 | Okay, so I never do politics because my job is totally not political. |
| 0:39.3 | But if I were like prime minister for day, I would inject AI everywhere. |
| 0:44.3 | If you look at the golden ages we've had and you look at the real powers we've had during the years, |
| 0:50.3 | you know, Rome, Venice, they were open economies, free trade, free movement of |
| 0:57.5 | labor, thought, and so on. What they're all have in common in terms of the end of the |
| 1:02.9 | golden ages is... What are you leaning against right now? |
| 1:11.0 | Well, I think the stuff to lean against, if you really want to do the opposite of everybody |
| 1:15.1 | else, would be to do less AI-related investments and more real estate investments. |
| 1:21.9 | How do you see real estate playing out? |
| 1:23.9 | Well, that's a very tough one, right? |
| 1:25.5 | But it's not very popular. |
| 1:27.0 | And I see that a lot of big |
| 1:30.0 | investors are reducing their exposures to real estate. So that's probably a good sign, right? |
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