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Moonshots with Peter Diamandis

The State of AI: Elon’s $1T Package, Apple’s $600B for Trump & How Startups Win w/ Dave, AWG & Blitzy Founders Brian Elliott & Sid Pardeshi | EP #193

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis

PHD Ventures

Business

4.8608 Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2025

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

Get access to metatrends 10+ years before anyone else - https://qr.diamandis.com/metatrends   Salim Ismail is the founder of OpenExO Dave Blundin is the founder & GP of Link Ventures Dr. Alexander Wissner-Gross is a computer scientist and founder of Reified, focused on AI and complex systems. Blitzy is an autonomous custom software supercharged by Generative AI. It was co-founded by Brian Elliott, a serial entrepreneur, and Sid Pardeshi, an ex-NVIDIA software architect with 27 Generative AI patents to his name. Blitzy's benchmark paper: https://paper.blitzy.com/blitzy_system_2_ai_platform_topping_swe_bench_verified.pdf – My companies: Reverse the age of my skin using the same cream at https://qr.diamandis.com/oneskinpod   Apply to Dave's and my new fund:https://qr.diamandis.com/linkventureslanding   –- Connect with Peter: X Instagram Connect with Dave: X LinkedIn Connect with Alex: Website LinkedIn X Email Connect with Blitzy: X LinkedIn Listen to MOONSHOTS: Apple YouTube – *Recorded on September 6th, 2025 *The views expressed by me and all guests are personal opinions and do not constitute Financial, Medical, or Legal advice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

A piece of muse I saw yesterday that had me scratch in my head, which was the trillion-dollar pay package for Elon.

0:07.3

Elon Musk could officially become the first trillionaire. Just about a trillion dollars in stock.

0:12.8

It's a striking number, but the benchmarks that he has to meet are also equally striking.

0:18.5

He's not just the leader of the company. He's the marketing voice.

0:22.3

If we really do expect to find ourselves in an abundant society soon, we should expect to have a lot

0:27.3

of trillionaires in our society. Money will start to have far less value than ever before.

0:32.6

If we're really on the verge of abundance, then what comes after that? What's going to remain scarce,

0:39.9

even as energy and intelligence, the cost of both of those goes to zero. But stuff is changing so

0:44.9

quickly. Media is changing quickly. Elon is paving a new path for what it means to be a great

0:49.2

corporate CEO. But it's going to change again, and it's going to change again, it's going to change

0:52.9

again. A trillion dollars here, a trillion dollars there.

0:55.3

How do you compete? What's your moat?

0:57.2

So, Brian and Sid, welcome.

1:00.1

Pleasure to have you both.

1:04.0

Now that's the moonshot, ladies and gentlemen.

1:09.0

Everybody, welcome the moonshots.

1:10.5

The news that really matters in your life.

1:12.2

I'm here with my moonshot mates, Dave Blundon, Alex Weisner Gross.

1:17.2

We're going to have a conversation today about David versus Goliath.

1:20.7

We're talking about trillion-dollar commitments, trillion-dollar pay packages.

1:25.2

It's insane.

1:26.3

But first of all, one of the most important pieces of news is Alex. I'm reading the comments. And what I keep on hearing is people want you, ask you a question, just have you talked for the entire episode. They love what you have to say. So I'm not going to do that today. But everybody, if you're, if you knew to Moonshots, Alex has been just

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