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EP 72: Jaan Tallinn (Co-Founder, Skype) on Lessons from Skype, Giving SBF $100M & Investing in AI

EP 72: Jaan Tallinn (Co-Founder, Skype) on Lessons from Skype, Giving SBF $100M & Investing in AI

FromThe Logan Bartlett Show


EP 72: Jaan Tallinn (Co-Founder, Skype) on Lessons from Skype, Giving SBF $100M & Investing in AI

FromThe Logan Bartlett Show

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Length:
84 minutes
Released:
Jul 7, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

(0:00) Intro (0:54) Jaan's journey with crypto (2:49) Investing in SBF (8:08) Entrepreneurial journey to Skype (15:11) Skype's immediate rise to popularity and mistakes along the way (22:15) Meeting Eliezer Yudkowsky (25:11) The Center for Existential Risk in the Future of Life Institute (31:05) Having a seat at the table by investing in artificial intelligence (37:24) Having an entrepreneur say no to you (41:59) The process of the DeepMind sale and the ethics board (45:58) The risk of artificial intelligence today (1:04:43) What was that unnerving about GPT four versus GPT three? (1:07:02) Jaan's memo on AI safety (1:16:00) What percentage likelihood do you think we're on a path to extinction? (1:22:18) What's a piece of conventional wisdom around startups or investing that you disagree with today? Mixed and edited: Justin HrabovskyProduced: Rashad AssirExecutive Producer: Josh MachizMusic: Griff Lawson ? Listen to the showApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/three-cartoon-avatars/id1606770839Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5WqBqDb4br3LlyVrdqOYYb?si=3076e6c1b5c94d63&nd=1Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zaW1wbGVjYXN0LmNvbS9zb0hJZkhWbg ? Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCugS0jD5IAdoqzjaNYzns7w?sub_confirmation=1 Follow on Socials? Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/theloganbartlettshow? Twitter - https://twitter.com/loganbartshow? Clips on TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@theloganbartlettshow About the ShowLogan Bartlett is a Software Investor at Redpoint Ventures - a Silicon Valley-based VC with $6B AUM and investments in Snowflake, DraftKings, Twilio, and Netflix. In each episode, Logan goes behind the scenes with world-class entrepreneurs and investors. If you're interested in the real inside baseball of tech, entrepreneurship, and start-up investing, tune in every Friday for new episodes. 
Released:
Jul 7, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

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Each week, Logan Bartlett, partially known for his work as a partner at Redpoint Ventures, but maybe even better known for his and his cartoon avatar’s posting on Twitter sits down with giants of the tech industry to give you the inside scoop you won’t hear anywhere else. They’re covering the biggest stories in tech, but the side nobody talks about. From the memes and Twitter beefs to the idiot billionaires, and basically, all the things real people in the tech world actually talk about, but secretly in their group chats! Subscribe now because you won’t want to miss an episode!