DeepSeek vs OpenAI: What This Battle Means for the Future of AI | The Tom Bilyeu Show

Welcome back to Impact Theory with Tom Bilyeu. Today's episode is an emergency podcast on the phenomenon that's shaken the tech and investment worlds over the weekend—Deep Seek. What started as a quiet innovation has now rocketed to the top of the App Store, dethroning even giants like OpenAI and Gemini. Our host, Tom Bilyeu, alongside producer Drew, dives deep into what Deep Seek is, why it's an absolute game-changer, and its staggering implications for AI, technology investments, and the future of market strategies. Is this the end of expensive training models, and has the focus firmly shifted towards reasoning and inference? Tune in as we unpack why Deep Seek's launch could mark the worst possible time to be an average investor and what this means for the future of AI and global competition. If you haven't already, make sure to subscribe and be part of this critical conversation. Let's get started! SHOWNOTES 00:00 The Future of AI Training 03:25 Reasoning's Impact on AI Evolution 08:06 Deep Seek: Data Security Concerns 11:51 "Work Hard, Smart, and Longer" 16:29 Navigating Financial Strategies 2025 20:41 Investors' Shift from Capital-Intensive Companies 21:26 Balancing Investment in Scientific Progress 25:08 Asteroid Threat: Brace for Impact CHECK OUT OUR SPONSORS Range Rover: Range Rover: Explore the Range Rover Sport at https://landroverUSA.com https://landroverusa.com Audible: Sign up for a free 30 day trial at https://audible.com/IMPACTTHEORY https://audible.com/IMPACTTHEORY1 Vital Proteins: Get 20% off by going to https://www.vitalproteins.com and entering promo code IMPACT at check out. Tax Network USA: Stop looking over your shoulder and put your IRS troubles behind you. Call 1-800-958-1000 or visit https://impacttheory.co/TNUSAJan Shopify: Sign up for your one-dollar-per-month trial period at https://shopify.com/impact What's up, everybody? It's Tom Bilyeu here: If you want my help... STARTING a business:join me here at ZERO TO FOUNDER https://tombilyeu.com/zero-to-founder?utm_campaign=Podcast%20Offer&utm_source=podca[%E2%80%A6]d%20end%20of%20show&utm_content=podcast%20ad%20end%20of%20show SCALING a business:see if you qualify here. https://tombilyeu.com/call Get my battle-tested strategies and insights delivered weekly to your inbox:sign up here. https://tombilyeu.com/ ********************************************************************** If you're serious about leveling up your life, I urge you to check out my new podcast,Tom Bilyeu’s Mindset Playbook https://open.spotify.com/show/47VE90Cittmo6TGGFqg2xf —a goldmine of my most impactful episodes on mindset, business, and health. Trust me, your future self will thank you. ********************************************************************** Join me live on myTwitch stream https://impacttheory.co/4fitmnJ. I'm live daily from 6:30 to 8:30 am PT atwww.twitch.tv/tombilyeu https://impacttheory.co/4fitmnJ ********************************************************************** LISTEN TO IMPACT THEORY AD FREE + BONUS EPISODES on APPLE PODCASTS:apple.co/impacttheory http://apple.co/impacttheory ********************************************************************** FOLLOW TOM: Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/tombilyeu/ Tik Tok:https://www.tiktok.com/@tombilyeu?lang=en Twitter:https://twitter.com/tombilyeu YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/@TomBilyeu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices https://megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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• 1:37Tom Bilyeu?

  Emergency podcast, everybody. The markets went crazy today due to the deep-seak phenomenon that seems to prove that the age of AI has shifted from training models to a model's ability to reason. I'll explain why I think that is very incomplete and why this is the worst possible time in human history to be the average investor. Drew, it was quite the weekend.

• 1:59Speaker 02

  Man, DeepSeek took over the internet, number one on the App Store. They beat OpenAI at number two, Gemini at number four. I seen people tweeting about it like crazy. So please, we had to break our production schedules. We shut down the team meeting, everything.

• 2:11Tom Bilyeu?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 2:12Speaker 02

  Please explain to us what DeepSeek actually is and why it matters in this moment to us.

• 2:16Tom Bilyeu?

  So what DeepSeek did was go, well, you guys spent the billions of dollars to train ChatGPT on what the world is like. That's probably the easiest way to think about it. What is the world like? And what I'm gonna do, it's something called synthetic data. I'm just gonna prompt ChatGPT over and over and over and over and over, like a lot. I'm going to prompt the living daylights out of this thing to describe to me the model that it has hidden inside of it, that it learned by crawling all of this data. And so I'm not gonna do the work of building that model. I'm gonna play a game, oh, this is probably a terrible example, but like Battleship, where I'm like, is there anything here? Or maybe more accurately, what's here?

• 3:01Tom Bilyeu?

  When I ask this question, what do you tell me about the world? When I ask this question, what do you tell me about the world? And now I can reduce all of these numbers, again, going from training costs a hundred million to five million, the GPUs that I need to do it from a hundred thousand to two thousand. And so driving all these costs way down just by going, well, you know about the world. Let me ask you. So DeepSeek's relationship to ChatGPT is the same as our relationship to ChatGPT. So as we prompt ChatGPT and feel like we're getting smarter about the world, DeepSeek was like, well, I'm just gonna do the same thing. I'm gonna ask it all these questions and I'm gonna build my sense of what the world is by prompting the life out of it, which is why you could ask DeepSeek, what are you? And it would tell you that it's ChatGPT 4.0.

• 3:46Tom Bilyeu?

  Because literally, it had prompted it so many times, it was basically like, well, this is what I am. So utterly fascinating, but it really does beg the question of, okay, well then, are the days of training behind us? And now this is just about, okay, you have a picture of the world in your mind, dear LLM, and now it's about who can look at that picture of the world and come up with the most compelling answers. So when I ask it for whatever you're asking it to do, write a bit of marketing copy, have it improve your screenplay, which is something that I was literally doing this weekend as I'm reading all of this drama. And getting really good at that is now the name of the game. And if that's true, and this is why the markets went crazy.

• 4:29Tom Bilyeu?

  If that's true, all of these companies that we've been rewarding by buying their stock like Nvidia for making these chips that allow people to train. Well, all of a sudden, you don't need as many GPUs because you can do all that training on much less sophisticated hardware. And you can still get a really compelling answer. So, hey, amazing gift to humanity that OpenAI went and spent all these billions of dollars. But now there's no moat because that exists and I'm able to query the life out of it to build on a much cheaper basis, a working model. And as long as my reasoning is better, or at least is good,

• 5:07Tom Bilyeu?

  I can get you all the answers that you need. So now it's like, the market was like, whoa, whoa, whoa. Then our whole investment thesis has changed. The reason I think that this, this is incredible. I do not want to skip past how amazing it is now that people can shift their focus to reasoning and getting really good at extracting the wisdom out of the model's trained sense of what the world is. But would like to remind everybody that right now what it's doing is just saying, what is the most likely next letter? Running a bunch of experiments about which of those sequences is the most useful, which is utterly transformative in and of itself. But I really believe that the next moment is going to be, okay,

• 5:48Tom Bilyeu?

  that's awesome for copy, for a lot of things like law and all that stuff is all going to be cognitive horsepower. But I think the next moment where AI really does the things we want to do, like when you hear me talking about it's going to drive energy costs to zero and all that stuff. You needed to understand the physical world, meaning you need that same thing at the level of physics. Now, if I'm right about that, then you're going to have to train the model on the world of physics. And I think that's going to take another insane round of training. And that probably shatters into a thousand different avenues. So, understanding chemistry, understanding the way that

• 6:32Tom Bilyeu?

  It works inside of a closed biological system, understanding quantum physics, all that stuff. Things that I can't even begin to imagine, things I don't even know exist that are lanes that people need to go down to figure out, okay, how does it work in this scenario?

• 6:47Speaker 02

  So it's that kind of that shit from I'm regurgitating internet information to now I understand these topics. I understand physics, I understand.

• 6:54Tom Bilyeu?

  So imagine you're an L L M and you're running those thought experiments. But as you go down right now, you're just running predictive analysis in a bunch of different ways. What if instead you were validating your prediction against the known laws of physics? So it doesn't help you in marketing copy, other than maybe getting better at understanding human psychological responses. Like if you knew, oh god, this it ends up getting so complicated. But just to finish the thought, if you knew these words and that sequence triggers this dopamine response and this type of person, holy hell, that would be very powerful to know. So that you would be going down the path of saying, okay, I think this is the right next letter or the right next word or the right next sentence,

• 7:37Tom Bilyeu?

  based on what I know about neurochemistry. Now that's a lot more powerful than just saying this is the most common thing that I see. And this right now is the advantage that humans still have is we understand. Like when I read this, it makes me feel some kind of way. And if I feel some kind of way, then other people are going to feel some kind of way. But the only way the L L M has any sense that that is true is more people have put that sequence of question and answer, or you know, whatever strings of sentences, right, out into the world. So I will assume based on volume that it's better. Okay. Hopefully that gives people a complete sense of a very simplified version of this. Why the markets are reacting the way that they're reacting.

• 8:21Tom Bilyeu?

  Now, if I'm right, that this is all going to be upended again by the companies that have. Balls to still be a company that's going to spend the billions of dollars to train on physics or you know chemistry or whatever the case may be.

• 8:38Tom Bilyeu?

  But what scares me about that is this moment may stop all of that investment. And watching the market over the next weeks, months, we're really going to see a people like, no, no, no, I do not want to be holding the stock of companies that are making huge capital expenditures into the physical infrastructure, Stargate, anyone, because that's not the play anymore. The play for the fast money, which make no mistake is what people are here for. The play for the fast money is in that the logic part of it, the inference. Okay, if that happens, and I'm right, that the next big breakthrough will require training these models on things like physics, then you may get the market being shy to do that.

• 9:22Tom Bilyeu?

  Because the second somebody spends the billions of dollars to do all that, you're going to get another DeepSeek like technology that goes rad. Thank you for building that model of the world. And now I'm going to extract everything that I can from that, drive all the costs down to next to nothing. And so how this will play out, I cannot even begin to tell you. I love to look at things as a sci fi writer and say that it's entirely possible that we get into people really being protective of that data, that they want to wall things off. And you saw in the conspiracy around DeepSeek, which is very fascinating to watch. It's all happening in real time.

• 10:04Tom Bilyeu?

  But if you went, if you go as of the time of recording this on Monday, if you go to DeepSeek's website, they have restricted access to DeepSeek. Now, the initial take on this on X was that this is because the CCP is behind DeepSeek and they launched DeepSeek R1 on Trump's inauguration day as a way to say, oh, you think you're going to ice us out? You guys tried to make it impossible for us to access these chips. Cool. So that we couldn't build the training models and we found a way around it. Using way inferior technology, the ones that we could get, made it way more efficient. And we're still able to match you guys within months. So you thought you had a year or two year head start on us.

• 10:50Tom Bilyeu?

  You have a month, two months, nobody's gonna care. And so we're now at parity. Now, what has actually happened, at least as it seems right now, is that people started attacking DeepSeek. They said malicious attacks of our site. And that's why we're restricting access. So yes, right now, they're restricting it to people with Chinese phone numbers. But everybody that already has it and downloaded, already has an account, can still get one. Now, we'll find out what's true, if this is really a CCP play, to say, haha, motherfuckers, you thought you were gonna be able to limit us. We dropped this on inauguration day. Now we're limiting access, it's only for people in China. But now you know it exists, wahahaha. I don't think that's gonna be how this plays out. There's certainly censorship and all that, which is a topic for another day.

• 11:35Tom Bilyeu?

  But this is definitely a wake up call to America. So let's talk about what Marc Andreessen said.

• 11:47Speaker 02

  That's exactly where I was going. Can we pull up that Marc Andreessen tweet? About DeepSeek R1 is AI Sputnik moment. Honestly, I don't know what Sputnik is, so you might have to break this down. Give me the elementary level for me.

• 11:57Tom Bilyeu?

  Okay, so I'm sure for a lot of people. So Sputnik was what, 1956?

• 12:02Speaker 02

  1957.

• 12:03Tom Bilyeu?

  Something like that. So Russia launches the first manned satellite into space, not satellite. They send somebody into space. They didn't get him to the moon, but I think he was the first person to orbit. And so it was a big deal. And it was like, whoa, Russia, communist country, they're ahead of us. Oh, my God, they're gonna win the space race. This lit a fire under America's ass. And I would say leads to JFK saying, we're gonna get to the moon by the end of this decade, not because it's easy, but because it is hard. Okay, so it's this whole Cold War mentality of we now have an enemy, and they're making us sweat. It's like, everybody, if you're trying to do something great in life, having a worthy adversary is incredibly useful.

• 12:48Tom Bilyeu?

  But I have a feeling that a Cold War is gonna be good for humanity, for sure.

• 12:54Tom Bilyeu?

  May even be good for America because of this spirit of we can't lose. We absolutely cannot let China get ahead of us. Now, I think- People are gonna forget that as of right now, DeepSeek is open source. So it's on GitHub. Anybody can grab it. They can download it. But there is something unnerving about seeing your opponent move that fast that you're like, huh. I don't know if we're ahead and it's going to matter a lot who wins the race on AI. So I think that this is really going to wake us up. I have, I have felt like I've been screaming into the void for a long time. About the thing that if I really want to piss people off, I'll just say you need to work hard.

• 13:37Tom Bilyeu?

  Need to work smart and you need to work long hours. If I say those three things, it triggers the internet and, and my X feed is going to be full of people. Hey dumbass, uh, if I'm working hard and smart, why do I have to work long hours? And I will just say, because China's going to hand you your ass. You're always going to have somebody else that's like, oh, they're working hard and smart rad, then I'm going to work hard, smart and long hours. That somebody is going to do all three and when you meet them, you will lose. That's a riff on a famous quote.

• 14:07Tom Bilyeu?

  That I think is really true and I really hope that this does in the way that Marc Andreessen is nodding to. Inspire us to fucking go hard in the paint. My message to every young person out there, genius is a young man's game. I am doing my best, Drew, to outrun the truth of that quote and I don't think I'll be able to do it. And so it really is going to take this next generation to be hungry and to say, I don't give a fuck. If you torch the, uh, housing market, I don't care if you're inflating my money out into nothing. I'm still going to win. So bad policy doesn't block dunks any more than booze don't block dunks.

• 14:48Tom Bilyeu?

  Now sadly, that isn't true and bad policy will fuck you up, but you really can. At least still in America, I want to believe you can still overcome. If you inspire people to go hard enough in the paint and I believe that national pride is a huge thing for sure, but individual glory.

• 15:10Tom Bilyeu?

  Individual sovereignty and freedom. The ability to flex hard to get laid is still gonna fucking drive this insane innovation in America. And this now reminds me of how I felt growing up in the eighties where it was like us versus Russia. Now, look, it was all fake and it had us walking this razor's edge of blowing each other up, but it also pushed us, man. Like it was crazy and it felt dope. It felt dope to be like, we're winning and we've got this adversary and we've got to outperform them. And it really does rally people. It hits them in this emotional level. So anyway, I feel like I've been screaming into the void about that for a long time

• 15:52Tom Bilyeu?

  because it doesn't come back to me with people being like, yeah, yeah, yeah, like I want to do that. And when you get people that really want to win, man, like they are on the field and they are playing to fucking win. Extraordinary things come out of that. And I would say China is a very worthy adversary. There's a quote in the social network where Mark Zuckerberg as a character says China has more geniuses than we have anything.

• 16:23Speaker 03

  More people with genius IQs living in China than there are people of any kind living in the United States. That can't possibly be true. It is.

• 16:29Tom Bilyeu?

  Now, if that's true, who it's gonna, it isn't gonna be easy, man. Like you really have a formidable foe and people that want to throw racist racism on the situation, you're gonna lose because smart and hardworking people are the world over. And the second you try to be like, ah, like paint any nation with any brush, woof, mistake, mistake. And so, yeah, taking these guys seriously, I think would be wise. Hold tight, we're gonna take a quick break. Luxury brands are not charging you more for better cashmere. You're paying for the storefront, the ad budget, the name on the tag, but Quince cuts all of that out. They work directly with ethical factories.

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• 19:10Speaker 02

  There is still calls for optimism, though. David Sacks put out this tweet. DeepSeek R1 shows that the AI race will be very competitive and that President Trump was right to rescind the Biden EO, which hamstrung American AI companies without asking whether China would do the same. Obviously not. I'm confident in the US, but we can't be complacent.

• 19:27Tom Bilyeu?

  This, this is the vibe for me. And the fact that he is the AI and crypto czar, like having that come from him, I think sets the right tone. And here's the thing, the youth get whatever country they want. And so it's gonna be a question. Do they want a country that is dominant globally or not? And if they do, they will get it because we have got, we are still the place that people the world over want to come. We are still the place has generation after generation after generation of hardcore motherfuckers. And so if we can harness that in policy and in cultural enthusiasm, we've got a shot.

• 20:06Speaker 02

  Nice. Now, we have to circle back to the investor markets because markets across the board were down this morning. Some people said Nvidia was done, people were swinging, I seen shorts, I seen all types of stuff. Why did this DeepSeek announcement have such a rampant effect on the stock market?

• 20:22Tom Bilyeu?

  Okay, so this is where I'm gonna start at the beginning and I'm gonna speed run my analysis of life in 2025. Your money's being inflated, which either makes you know intellectually or intuitively that saving money is a losing strategy, which it quite literally is. People that save money are actively losing money. So you have to do something with it. Some people will just spend it willy nilly, yellow their way through life and they're never gonna get ahead. Some people will gamble in the stock market and try to get ahead. And so if you focus in on the fact that we are being forced to gamble at a time where the world is changing so rapidly that people are just gonna get kicked in the face. And people that win one day are gonna lose the next.

• 21:07Tom Bilyeu?

  That, that is the reality when you are trying to use any gambling mechanism as the mechanism to get ahead. The way I would love to see it, and I am a simple mind, fine. But the way I would love to see it is people know, number one, I save a certain amount of my money. And then I take a certain portion of that and I'm going to try either long-term over the stock market, I'm gonna try to get ahead, or I'm gonna do day trading just because it's fun, it's exhilarating, and it gives me a chance to be right and beat people. So you have a lot of very smart people trying to Put together a thesis on where the world is going and then they're going to bet in the markets that their thesis is correct.

• 21:47Tom Bilyeu?

  Now, when you have a stable market where changes happen over years, A, you can do that. You can get a nice, stable way of looking at the world that pays off over time. Call it value investing. When you have a world where you get, over the weekend, people's entire view of what the future is changes on a dime. And P S, the magnificent seven, which have carried the vast majority of the gains in the stock market, are all predicated on technology. Technology, right now, largely being carried by A I. A I, suddenly, over the weekend, just gets wildly disrupted. And so I'm sitting there going, right now, I am glad that I'm so certain I cannot see the future clearly, that I don't make big bets in the stock market.

• 22:31Tom Bilyeu?

  So, uh, go up, go down. I'm so conservative that it isn't going to make a big difference to me, but it means that I don't win big. It also means that I don't lose big, which is great, but I'm not winning big. So, that's where this really gets hard. Because if you go in and tell people, stop betting on the market right now, the future is so uncertain. They're going to say, well, the part of the future that I can see pretty clearly is that my money's being inflated to zero. And so they can't stop. They literally can't stop. You'll lose your money. So, I hate that. And because the future is changing so rapidly, this really is the worst time in human history to be trying to make money off of a thesis about where things are going. For the average investor, I get that you're super bright quants will be able to do it, but Jesus.

• 23:15Speaker 02

  Now, I remember you said last week, we could barely see over the horizon. So let alone trying to have a 30-year portfolio based on Nvidia or based on Tesla, based on some of these companies where our, the entire moat of A I was, it costs too much to build a data center, so we're the best that can do it. Elon famously spent a bunch of money and built a data center in six weeks. Everybody was kind of applauding how we can invest masses of amount of capital to get this strategic advantage. Just for to your point overnight, that advantage is now gone. So, is there any moat left in technology with A I? Like, they would, is this a day one rebuild if I'm open to A I? Like, how do, how does the company respond to when their moat is fundamentally removed?

• 23:54Tom Bilyeu?

  This is the part that I can't see. I don't know if money, so I call it the cover story of the stock market. The cover story of the stock market, which is just gambling, but nobody wants to call it that, is that, and this is true. So it's not a fake cover story. It just isn't why people put their money into it. But the result of them putting their money into it is that these companies are able to aggregate capital and deploy that against some thing that they want to bring to market that they think will be incredibly valuable to people and that people are going to spend their money on that thing. Cool. Okay, we want that to happen. It's wonderful. The markets are wonderful. I love it the most. I just don't love the compulsory nature of having to gamble.

• 24:33Tom Bilyeu?

  Okay, so now the question becomes, all the individuals that are allocating their capital, trying to get these fast wins off the stock market, are they going to want to invest in companies that are making huge cap X outlays or not? And if they're not, then now you get back into, and right now I am in wild prognostication phase. I don't know if this is going to play out, but this is how it hits me right now. That we're back into the early days where it was like we were promised flying cars and we got 140 characters. Of if everybody is just going to just reasoning, just reasoning, just reasoning, meaning inference, that nobody cares about training new models anymore. It's just making do with the models that we already have. That's saying that the models are now as good as they're ever going to be and we're just going to try to extract more out of them.

• 25:19Tom Bilyeu?

  My intuition, which everybody should discard, but my intuition is that's not going to be the play. That until you have a working model that can make sense of quantum fluctuations, or whatever the fuck that is, until you can map what dark energy is, until you can predict exactly how the particles collided in a, like the Large Hadron Collider, a particle accelerator, until you can predict all of that with 100% accuracy, you have not yet mapped out the actual real world. And I think that's ultimately where we want to end up, but I can't imagine anything more capital intensive than trying to solve those problems. Now, could just be my ignorance, but. I would be sad intuitively to see us collapse back to just make use of what we have now

• 26:04Tom Bilyeu?

  versus training the life out of these. But capital allocators are going to do what they think is going to yield a return to them. Period. Full stop. End of story. And so this is where you get into, well, that's what the government is for. And they're supposed to invest in things like this. And I don't know, man, we'll see. If you are pushing your government to do entitlements over everything, you just don't have the capital left for this.

• 26:27Tom Bilyeu?

  It's gonna be weird. I, I, I have a vision of the future that I know will have a wrecking ball taken to it like every 72 hours. It's, it's crazy. Like, that's not literal, but that's directionally correct. And so it just makes it hard to build a stable thesis.

• 26:44Speaker 02

  Yeah. And then for this one, I want you to kind of take off your AI hat, put your entrepreneur hat on. Like, how do you outrun your competition? Like, to me, like, if my moat was gone over the weekend, like, is, all right, let's pack it up, guys. Like, you put your heart into this, into this company, your entrepreneurship journey is so important to you. And then somebody on the other side of the world, to your point, is working faster, longer and harder. And then now your strategic advantage is gone. Like, that has to be a punch in the gut.

• 27:09Tom Bilyeu?

  All I can do is tell you how you think about it as an entrepreneur. So as an entrepreneur, you say, where am I making revenue? In fact, here's a quick 101 for our entrepreneurs out there. Man, this is so simple to do. It's very hard, it's simple to do in theory and very hard to do in practice. You stop telling yourself a story. Because right now, OpenAI, all of them, they're telling themselves a story. Stop telling yourself a story. Look at the reality of how you generate money. The stock price for a lot of these guys is so important. And so now our access to capital is predicated on what's going on in the market. Okay, well, now then, we have to do the things that the people in the market want us to do. I don't know what the people in the market are going to want to do for the medium to long term. The short term is all eyes on DeepSeek and things like that.

• 27:54Tom Bilyeu?

  So now we're moving over to inference. Or at least the market is like, I think people are gonna do that. So we'll see. So you look at that, you look at what you sell to the customer. What is the customer actually willing to pay for? You look at DeepSeek, you see that, ooh, it's almost as good as OpenAI 4.0. And if they're doing it for an absolute fraction of the cost making this open source, then that's not going to survive for very long. So I know I'm going to have to find something else. So they are going to ask themselves one question and one question only. Where can I put the smallest investment to get the largest return? And if DeepSeek proves day after day that that's in being really good at extracting better knowledge from the models we already have,

• 28:35Tom Bilyeu?

  all the companies that are way too far over their skis and building out these large physical things, they're going to be in trouble and they may literally get relegated to the dustbin. And then other people come in and go, all right, this is the new thing. This is what people care about. And so we're going to be able to give them that. And that's it. Like, that is how the world will play out. What are people willing to pay for? Period. Full stop. End of story.

• 28:59Speaker 02

  Man, we shall see. That's all I got.

• 29:01Tom Bilyeu?

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