Brian Koppelman: belief

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…Brian? Joe’s exactly right. I think we were really compelled by a couple of questions. For us, as for the best investors when I've talked to them, curiosity. Something that makes you genuinely really curious, where you just can't look away from the question until you start to understand what's behind it. As an artist, it’s a really great and rare thing. This question of disruption and the cost, the price, what gets disrupted? Is the benefit of having this new utility of changing this infrastructure is the convenience worth what's on the other side of the ledger? And then, I think twinned with that, is the question of what happens sometimes when revolutionaries unseat fascists. Are they able to avoid becoming fascists? Is it inevitable that like Hannah Arendt talks about that there's going to be lost treasure in the revolution, and that lost treasure is the whole reason for the revolution in the first place? There are many Silicon Valley stories, but to us, the Uber story in the way that Mike takes you into it, the Uber story is one that raises those questions, and we hope the series raises those questions, and maybe the series posits some theories. Those are sort of the thematic resonant reasons. But also, all the stuff Joe says applies, too, which is, these people are fascinating [...][5] people. They're so much fun to listen to, watch and think about, and they just fire you up. Lastly into this audience, I'll say this, which won't mean that much to many people, but I know Bill Gurley and I know Bill Gurley separate from this, and I liked Bill Gurley. This is going to sound odd, but I'm very friendly with Marc Andreessen and Bill Gurley. There's five of us (I think) in the world. You're the bridge. You're the bridge.…

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