The Future Is Going to Be Great

The Next Big Idea

Dave Blundin has co-founded 23 companies, co-hosts the Moonshots podcast, runs the VC firm Link Ventures, teaches at MIT, and has been building neural networks since the 1980s. His take: “[AI is] under-hyped. It's absolutely going to change the world in the next couple of years more than any change in human history. There's nothing even vaguely comparable to it.”

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(7:37) “Stop sleeping. Rush to everything you do.”

(15:16) Why he started building neural nets at MIT in the 1980s

(16:19) Should you finish college or start a business?

(20:38) Why best friends are the best co-founders

(25:00) San Francisco is still king, but Boston is AI startup central

(28:06) “The chip shortage is going to be incredibly bad.”

(34:26) The AI energy shortage

(36:32) Are we in an AI bubble?

(55:44) The case for human immortality before 2050

(1:02:00) Advice for first-time founders (and second-time, and 23rd-time)

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