Six Questions on Frontier AI Labs, Messaging AI to a Skeptical Public, Amazon (and Apple?) Ramps Up Competition with Elon
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Hello, and welcome back to another episode of Sharp Tech. I'm Andrew Sharp, and on the other line, Ben Thompson. Ben, how you doing?
I'm doing okay, Andrew. How are you?
I'm doing alright. I'm pretty jealous after the Nico Rosberg interview this week on sir Techery. You interviewed the absolute goat of f one broadcast. It was a tremendous hang. I enjoyed it.
Well, yeah. I mean, I usually don't interview VCs. You know, they're always wanting to talk their book, but, like, I guess I have an exception. If you have driven an f one car in RVC, then then I will
Well, life story is super interesting. And the way he's leveraging F1 into the venture career is also really smart.
I actually thought what, I think there is an interesting point here, which is like, you can, there you, you can look at someone like Nico Rosberg, Absolute life of privilege. Right? His dad was also an F one champion, one of, you know, father son sort of combo there.
He was also conducting the interview from Ibiza where he owns a ice cream Two
ice cream shops in fact because of doing so well. You know, I've been coming here doing visa my whole life. I mean, that's a line that I think that occurred in the interview. And, you know, he speaks five languages, went to very high end international schools, obviously came up with, you know, to succeed at F one. Know, You it's always striking. Like, you have to be in a cart by the time you're like five years old. Five years old might be too late, which which speaks to I always find it fascinating to talk to anyone at the absolute top of their game Because I I there's so much that goes into i
And your sleep. I mean, there's all sorts of things you have to account for to excel at that level.
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