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I work for the Internet, at @stripe, mostly on accelerating startups. Opinions here are my own.

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    Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 6 Jan 2018
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    Inbox: “What do you think of the Uber deal?” I’m agnostic; there is clearly a price at which owning Uber makes a lot of sense. A more interesting question is “How would you invest in technology if you had to deploy $100 billion?”

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      2. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 6 Jan 2018
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        The answer to that can’t possibly be “Go home! We’ve written all the software that can ever be written. No more productivity gains exist. Just stick it all in T-bills.”

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      3. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 6 Jan 2018
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        Instead, it probably has to acknowledge that, operationally speaking, there are rather few companies (of any type) that can receive a $5 billion check and make productive use of it.

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      2. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 6 Jan 2018
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        Replying to @patricknmahoney

        I think the most valuable thing you can do with that amount of money is creating something valuable that will probably look toyish and thereby get in on ground floor of some material X% of a cohort of interest on or before day 1. My cohort of interest would be “new engineers.”

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        Mark my words, ability to identify (and engage) or create engineers at scale is worth billions of dollars.

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        I think I could reasonably spend $100k, $1 million, or $10 million in technology in a way which created value, but I’m skeptical of my ability to spend the next 4 orders of magnitude materially better than anyone drawn from phone book at random.

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      1. Baruch Kogan‏ @BaruchKogan 7 Jan 2018
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        $100 billion, I'd identify 1000 bright young kids and invest $10k in year long self study in anything they wanted as long as it involved the creation of something tangible-tech, code, a business. Then have them select the next 5k as partners. 10 years, you'd make money back.

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      1. Baruch Kogan‏ @BaruchKogan 7 Jan 2018
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        Carnegie started as a child laborer at age 7, didn't want to go to school. Was a partner in the railroad by 19. Pushed compulsory mass ed. Rockefeller similar. See John Taylor Gatto's work.https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL463AA90FD04EC7A2 … (he had a stroke so slurs a bit, but is still very sharp.)

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      2. Baruch Kogan‏ @BaruchKogan 7 Jan 2018
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        The actual logic behind compulsory mass ed was breaking of the human spirit, taking kids from families and teaching them to do meaningless work on command, with bells, orders by strangers, etc. Guys pushing it owned the factories which employed these "human resources."

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        Of course, it was sold as being for the good of the children. Are the children good now? They can't read or write well, most can't do basic math, half are on psychoactive drugs pushed by the school. Typical school is minimum security prison, full of boredom and violence.

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        It's been 18 years since I graduated from Stuyvesant HS, which is the best public schooling that NYC (and so, likely, the nation) has to offer. Most of the curriculum was boredom, stress, stupid human tricks. Maybe things have done a 180 in the last 2 decades...I doubt it.

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