Bill Gurley: Searching for Feynman
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Silicon Valley royalty, legendary investor, Bill Gurley.
Track record's incredible.
The legend who backed Uber and Zillow, who's lived through every major tech cycle for over twenty five years.
You're not just a commentator. Right? You've been an operator.
I'd love to unlock this latent human potential. There's been no time in the history of the world where you can learn faster. You can increase your surface area for luck. I'm not a big fan of these dystopian narratives. The thing to do right now is to run as fast as you can.
Please welcome Bill Gurley.
It's good to be here again. Three years ago, I gave a talk on regulatory capture and this group was quite kind in how they reacted and how that video was promoted and I'm very happy we got that word out into the public discourse. Obviously, today you hear it quite a bit. I have a different topic I'm gonna talk to you about today. It's not I'm not gonna talk about AI. It's a serious topic and so there might not be as many fun joke parts in it, but it's something that's been weighing on my mind for the past five or six years, and I'm thankful that the team here allowed me to come to talk to you
Wow. I gotta ask a question. No. Stay out here. Stay out here. Can I do a question? Another standing ovation here. Bill, wow. You put a tremendous amount of effort into this. We've known each other for thirty years. I've seen you emotional, I think two other times. One was the Jason Isbell concert. Another time you you'll you know, your your your top set got counterfeited or something, but this is emotional and this is personal for you. What they did to our kids is really clearly impacted you. Maybe you could talk about why it's so important that we consider the damage that was done to this ge
Well, I mean for me it's all back to prevention, like like you have to stop it from happening again. I have zero confidence right now that if another pandemic started tomorrow, we'd have any better way to navigate it. I think we might do worse because of the the misinformation campaigns cause a lack of trust. Next time you're not going to listen to them, there's not going to be ability for anybody to lead, and I'm I'm struck as you can tell by the presentation by the difference between the the attitude of the people that searched in these other catastrophes, how they were viewed as heroes, and
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