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...That is generally a completely well respected view, and it is definitely true. But on the other side, I I often look at the companies in China, and that's what really bothers me. I mean, that keeps me up at night, which is how are they able to build
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“Why French engineers cost way less than Silicon Valley talent”
...pool of very talented young people who wanna be working at startups.
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...huge CapEx costs. And if you could just marginally improve the efficiency of that, that pays that 100,000,000 seller salary. Yeah. And and so this this literally just happened right before, Mark Zuckerberg went on the talent acquisition spree that he
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...so talented. But, you know, should we be paying soccer players or basketball players? I have no idea. And I I don't spend a minute worrying about whether we're paying extraordinary people too much. No company ever went bankrupt by paying extraordinar
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...becomes way more apparent. So, yes, the quick answer is, like, talent's getting peanut buttered. Mhmm. But I think that happens time and time again. And at time and time again, like, you have, you know, either it's large incumbents or publics or now
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...talented people working together. Ought they to be paid more than world class soccer players? I have no idea. Maybe, maybe not. I mean, inherently, yes. From an economic rationale standpoint, yes. The value generated from a chief scientist at OpenAI,
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Today, that's one of the number one topics in those forums. Maybe the number one topic. Right? Because I think we figured out how with high powered reasoning models and very large context windows, we can have single tasks that suddenly cost dollars.
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companies and talent like in the Bay Area that are vying for the same people, the ones with the bigger either opportunity or bankroll. Most time can win. It comes down to the the candidate, though, you know, how you what their motivations are, how yo
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...talent to begin with. So really talented people are highly uneven.
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...with talent, and you can typically look at the companies and the quality of people as you interview and meet the people at the company. You can assess, does this does this company have a high talent bar or not?
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...talent. That is generally a completely well respected view, and it is definitely true. But on the other side, I I often look at the companies in China, and that's what really bothers me. I mean, that keeps me up at night, which is how are they able t
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to do the thing. It's not gonna read your mind. So, yeah, I think it's like, even that sounds kinda stupid, I think that is the thing. When we look at, like, available budgets, do you think that CEOs, CTOs, CPOs are willing to spend multiples of what
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...but it costs that amount. Like, having a really great technical resource help you train your AI for a couple weeks, that ain't free. It's pretty pretty damn expensive. So, and this relates to the meta issue. You gotta invest the time, and there's a r
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I don't know, trends, if you will, and then how that impacts overall startup economics in the earlier stages. Yeah. It's actually kinda funny. I was, tweeting that the the the other day. You know, everybody's talking about the one person, person, $1,
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for almost nothing and something that the world has found to be very valuable in the past for real markets, right? Like a two d image, I mean that's been an entire market, People value them. It takes a human being a long time to create it. Right? I m
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to have growth into the future. Yeah. So I think it's best for our business, but also, I think that we're trying to push the whole industry to just, be radical about the changes that are coming. Yeah. When you said the best coding agent, I'm always l
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...crazy talent war. For people who don't know about this, what is actually going on this this talent war for for people who know how to do AI or train a model or whatever it is? Yeah. The league or the Mag seven, the serious teams are all worth over $1
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AI for the company. Or maybe next year, we would have added 50 engineers, but we're gonna add 25 and then pay for AI. But guess what? The year after, we're gonna have engineering productivity gains. So they're gonna increase this because it's still c
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...talent wars. We do think at this particular moment in time, there are particular people that can move needles. Clearly, other companies believe that too. Otherwise, they wouldn't be willing to pay such crazy prices for single individuals. So that's t
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