Tim Draper On The AI Boom, Bitcoin’s Future And Building ‘Human Accelerators’

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• The most important founder trait is a love and obsession for the customer

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• The big early internet winners (AOL, Yahoo, Netscape) didn't end up being a big part of the internet later

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• Quantum computers will hack banks before bitcoin because banks are easier to hack

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• Eventually retailers will say 'We only take bitcoin' and there will be a run on the dollar

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• Meet the Drapers had a reach of 300 million people with 10 million seeing each episode

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• One or two general AI companies will become 'hungry giants' and acquire companies working around the edges

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• The US made everything a security and illegal, causing crypto innovators to geofence the US to protect from the SEC

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• Regulators should not regulate in anticipation of fearful outcomes, only after something bad happens

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• Everything should be decentralized because the person on the ground knows better than centralized authorities

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• Bitcoin is in a period where 'nobody cares' but it's slowly taking over

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• Every industry goes through the Draper iS curve with initial hype, crash, and then sustained growth

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• Healthcare is moving from chemotherapies to bio-cures like stem cells, cloning, and genetic engineering

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• Space and transportation companies are now called dual-use and governments are buying because they're behind the commercial sector

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• Bitcoin's perfect records could eliminate the need for 85,000 IRS agents

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• Draper University is a 'human accelerator' not a 'pre-accelerator' because it accelerates people, not businesses

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• AI is right at the 'dot' on the i or coming down from the hype peak due to energy issues

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• Coca-Cola hires people based on specific voice models that match desired personality types

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• Laws should sunset and the '33 and '40 Acts are keeping the poor poor and the rich rich

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• The current AI boom is as big as the dot-com boom, maybe bigger

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• AI will eventually be bigger than anyone imagined, especially in robotics

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• Countries like El Salvador, Japan, Dubai and Abu Dhabi are thriving because they encourage crypto innovation

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