Evidence receipt / uncertainty
Published · transcript-backedShaan Puri: uncertainty
9 Sept 2020 Acquired Special: Acquired x My First Million
“I don't know if he's working on this, but I saw him talking about or tweeting about, we really could just go put solar panels into space and harness the sun's energy that way and then beat it to the earth or something crazy.”
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- Speaker
- Shaan Puri
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- uncertainty
- Recorded
- 9 Sept 2020
- Publisher
- Acquired
Transcript context
…Did he leave Facebook? I think he left Facebook. I don't know if he's working on this, but I saw him talking about or tweeting about, we really could just go put solar panels into space and harness the sun's energy that way and then beat it to the earth or something crazy. What would it take to throw a giant set of solar panels into space? I was like, what the [...] is this guy talking about? People with brain power ten orders of magnitude more than mine. I'm like, oh, wow. I can't tell if you're joking or if you're serious. You're probably serious and it sounds like a joke to me. That's how big the knowledge gap is here. What's super exciting to me on this is I have a friend who just started a company. This is a double-edged sword, but it's just reality. The problems are finally starting to get real with climate. I think one of the reasons why there is no good funding structure for it and Cleantech failed. Everybody knows that this wave of awfulness is coming.…
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