Ben Gilbert: belief

9 Sept 2020 Acquired Special: Acquired x My First Million

“I think we can talk about GPT-3, we can talk about crypto stuff. There are other frontier technology things at the moment, but probably five times in the last couple of months, I've had a really smart people that I've tried to recruit to start something with me to join a PSL company who are saying, actually, after doing some reflecting, I'm going to go work on some climate stuff.”

— Ben Gilbert

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Speaker: Ben Gilbert
Attribution: Verified speaker
Claim type: belief
Recorded: 9 Sept 2020
Publisher: Acquired
Episode: Special: Acquired x My First Million

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…That's right. I think we can talk about GPT-3, we can talk about crypto stuff. There are other frontier technology things at the moment, but probably five times in the last couple of months, I've had a really smart people that I've tried to recruit to start something with me to join a PSL company who are saying, actually, after doing some reflecting, I'm going to go work on some climate stuff. There's no capital structure to support that. David, we did that deep dive into how breakthrough energy stuff gets funded, which is completely broken. I've got a company to talk about, but keep going.…

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