#18: Roger McNamee on Being in the Right Place at the Right Time (and Making the Most of It)
Superinvestors and the Art of Worldly Wisdom
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The Role of Internet Platform Monopoly in Our Society
I spent four months privately trying to convince them that this was a huge issue, and they were having none. And then in April, I meet a young man named Tristan Harris, who'd been the design ethicist at Google. He's talking about the psychology of addiction and how it works on these social networks. It really scared him and bothered me. But other than getting on 60 minutes, he was having trouble in traction. So I call him up afterwards, I go, do you need a wingman? He goes, wow, yeah, I love a wingman. We started working together full time ever since. They're doing a lot of things that would have allowed 20 years
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