Lex Fridman: uncertainty

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…Yeah. There’s got to be a way to accelerate that. The natural scaling of a company and the bureaucracy that grows, yes, slows that down. But just having seen Elon work a lot, his teams are able to still keep it very fast, even as the company grows. There’s got to be a process to doing that, especially for the pig-fucker episode. I don’t know where that’s in the priority list, but for important things like that, you should be able to do that quickly. I don’t know. Can you speak to how would you do that? Well, I can tell first how it was done. Remember… So at a place like Netflix, there would be… I think that at that point it’s called a product called Dexter. I can’t remember. There’s our actual movie metadata warehouse that’s going to be highly integrated with Hollywood, where that side is able to manage all that. So I’m like, “Hey, you need the ability to mark things that need to be reversed because we’re going to run into this a bunch.” And we did. We ran into quite a few topical shows that all need to be reversed and all that. And so it’s like, “We need to be able to reverse episode numbers, season numbers. We need to be able to hide season or episode numbers.” In the case of the Chelsea Handler Show, it was like a daily show, so it’s like you don don’t need episode numbers, you just need the latest one. And so there’s this whole problem that exists. And so it’s like, “Okay, you need to work on that for your UI over there, then you need to be able to store that data. Then we need to be able to go to the people that can actually get the video data out of that and provide it to our service layer. I need to go talk to them and convince them they need to be able to give me the new methods and everything to do that. Then I need to be able to go write the methods to get it down, and then I need to go to the UI and make that accessible. Now I need to go to the website people, I need to go to the mobile people, I need to go to the TV people.”…

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