A guy who worked at Denny's at 17 heard about the Internet from a regular named Tom and didn't believe it would matter. He thinks AI will be roughly 10 times bigger. Sam Altman and others are betting that someone in Bangladesh could soon prompt Hollywood-level movies into existence.
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Like, I'm not going to be that stupid, right? When I was 17 years old, I used to work at Denny's and this guy would sit across. I worked in the smoking section where they had the little bar, you know, where four seats are. And this guy Tom used to come in there and sit and, and I would sit there and refill his coffee and stuff. And he would stay late. I worked the night shift. And he, he started telling me about this thing called the Internet. And he was like, there's going to be this thing that was 30 years ago, right? And he's like, there's going to be this thing that connects to the Internet and all these businesses are going to be building. And I thought he was smoking. Like, I'm not going to be that stupid, right? Three years later when I came along, and it literally, like, when you understand that Sam Altman is having conversations with Hollywood producers because some guy in Bangladesh in a year or two is going to be able to prompt a Hollywood level movie and kill, you know, a billion dollar industry. And the size of this, in my opinion, revolution is like 10 times more impact than the Internet. So, you know, when you take the 10 rich companies in the world and they're all focused on the same thing, you know, that's a clue that you probably should be paying attention to it too, in my perspective.