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I was a research scientist at DeepMind and Meta AI. Winston was a lawyer. The combination sounds weird until you realize legal AI needs both — someone who understands the models and someone who understands the law.
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Andy had the meditation expertise. I had the advertising background. He knew how to teach mindfulness. I knew how to sell it. That combination built a billion-dollar company.
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Reid Hoffman and I started Inflection together. A DeepMind co-founder and a LinkedIn co-founder building an AI company. The investor pitch meetings were very short.
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Our co-founders are Stanford professors who literally wrote the textbook on computer architecture. Kunle Olukotun and Chris Ré. When your founders invented the technology, the R&D moat is real.