Daniel Keller

Jeff Bezos: "I've created $2.1 trillion of wealth for other people." "Somebody needs to make a list where they rank people by how much wealth they've created for other people." While talking about his net worth, he floated an idea that flips the whole concept of a "rich list" on its head. He did the math live, right there on stage. "Amazon's market cap is 2.3 trillion today. I own about 200 billion of it." "So if you take 2.3 trillion and subtract out the piece I kept for myself, then I've created something like $2.1 trillion of wealth for other people." That's not a typo. Trillion, with a T and it's not even his money. "That should put me pretty high on some kind of list." He didn't stop at himself, either. He immediately named who else deserves a spot at the top. "People like Jensen, Nvidia, he's going to be very high on that list." "That would be a pretty cool list. Somebody should do that list."

I don't want to spark any mimesis whatsoever here, but the remote parts of the upper peninsula in Michigan are the last great American frontier—literally the only one left.

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PALMER LUCKEY: “PATENTS ARE CHINESE INSTRUCTION MANUALS.” “STOP PATENTING EVERYTHING. THE FOUNDING FATHERS NEVER PREDICTED A WORLD WHERE THE ENTIRE PATENT OFFICE COULD BE DOWNLOADED EVERY MORNING, RIPPED OFF, AND USED TO FIGHT A WAR AGAINST YOU.” “WE NEED TO FUNDAMENTALLY REVISIT THE PATENT SYSTEM.” “I THINK WE NEED TO MASSIVELY EXPAND THE NATIONAL SECURITY PATENT PROCESS. YOU CAN OBTAIN A CLASSIFIED PATENT THAT YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED TO DISCLOSE TO ANYONE... WHILE STILL MAINTAINING EXCLUSIVE RIGHTS.” “WE NEED TO MASSIVELY EXPAND THAT PROGRAM.”