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NerdTV #3 w/ Bill Joy, transcript. [create KPCB], Google, Sun, Genentech John Doerr, Ray Kurzweil, Jeff Hawkins, Andy Bechtolsheim, Jim Clark, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Dean Kamen On Intelligence [create MIPS], IBM 801, Java, Unix - 100m biz in 5yrs - significant companies only - vc is much harder then he thought it might be - much more interesting too - complete the team, few come in complete - missing piece is often money, but more often: putting together the pieces - guiding team to understand what they don't understand yet - did cooking to finance graduate school, got fired by the intl house of pancakes (day before he would've been in the union) - non-life-sci side of kp - software, energy ventures - passed the threshold: miniaturization allows phone as powerful as computer of a few years back - computing becomes more invisible - confluence of software with _all_ sciences - nano is not really about scale - we used to chip away (chiseling, carving ...), now: build up! - kurzweil - computer 10000x as smart as a human being - possible? "if you look at those graphs, it appears to be" - we don't know how humans are smart - making a computer faster doesn't make it intelligent (but it can help) - as marvellous as google is, it's not like interacting with an entity that "knows" - kids are growing up faster than before! - we're doing an experiment w/o precedent - uncontrolled - oceans are getting more acidic - break down shells of the reefs - economic forces drive us that way - not practical to just wish it to change - people do whatever they want to do - best thing: find a _profitable_ way to alter the course - investments in: solar, wind, fuel cells - not looking at the current class of politicians in this country to address those issues - nostalgic of sun? no. 20yrs a long time. glad bechtolsheim is back at sun. - 100k$ cheque to google - one of the best rates of return _ever_ - andy: great hardware designer, very perceptive of potential - looking for practicality and passion, like kp - in energy: first prototype in 1896, somewhat worked in 1950 ... - much longer timeframes - leadership? e.g. java team - didn't have the original vision, but helped find a place, and they ended up somewhere - don't know how to market it, who their first customers should be - big vision: big circle - find successful place within that circle - can't really lead, steer - guide - nudge, can't go too far out of their circle - herd? no ... - don't want: cats or buffalos (not farm animals), need something that stays within fences - formative stage team size: number of people who can have lunch, 6 ... max 8 - one conversation - 6 or less is optimal - otherwise: slows you down, can't do the corrections & nudges any more, somebody has to be somewhere else, can't be there - but if you're too small, perspective is not broad enough to solve the problems, eventually you need more people just to get the work done - "patient as long as people listen" - even if they don't act on recommendations - still a technologist? yes. but: not hacking code - designing a sailboat now - it's like an island - opportunity to study energy efficiency (direct influence on quality of life) - built at the same port jim clark's sailboat was built - energy efficiency brings amenities (battery vs. generator) - pre 9/11, answer to bioterrorism was: nobody has done it before - not a good approach - if I had to start over and I couldn't be an investor, I'd do software again - web or (life) science - real strength of the valley: crossplay between the people - an infrastructure to get problems solved - you don't have to make the individual enterprises too large - intelligence equally distributed - for the moment: more entrepreneurial culture than elsewhere, strong legacy of silval - no better environment _now_ for entr activities - could weaken over time if we don't continue to train the best and brightest - immigration is not fun - need to train more people in eng and science, dean kamen tries to get people more excited about science in school - teachers aren't paid well, no investment in public education - ireland - free college degrees, now: highest per-capita income in europe (chl: really?) - here: opposite direction - let have everyone a college education (clinton suggested that) - stop spending money we don't have - overconsumption is an issue - learning things would be a better pastime than just buying things - yes, boat project is an indulgence (?) - larry and sergey: great vision - to do good - fun to work with people like that - open source: people can stand on each other's shoulders instead of each other's toes |
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