Lenny Rachitsky: prediction

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…Yeah, I think there's a lot of things for the whole value chain of building companies as a lot of these like variable costs, even large portions of like operations or consulting. Right. Like imagine if we could have 10 times as many McKinsey consultants, what would be possible insofar as the research we could do, the analysis, et cetera. But I think the companies and people that are going to succeed are those that lean into this narrative of abundance, of how do we do so much more, rather than fighting back against it, of how do we try to stop displacement? So along those lines, I think about your second bucket, which is the people that will be most successful. It's not like a specific... skill, but it's being good with AI, using AI to become more, become better at what you're already doing. This reminds me of Elon's whole thing with Neuralink, which if I don't know if this is how he put it, but the way I've always heard it is he wanted to build Neuralink because in the future, when AGI and super intelligence is around, we need a way to compete. And the best way to compete is plug our brains into a super intelligence so we have a chance. And it feels like that's what AI is like. Getting good at AI tools is essentially is having the superpower. Figuring out how to leverage them and incorporate it will definitely be of paramount importance.…

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