That’s the challenge with technical advances. It’s not just solving the technical problem, it’s also solving the societal problem.

If you look back into history, Automated elevators was a major panic until people got comfortable with the idea.

If it gets me closer to Half-Life 3, then pipe that shit into my brains

I’m laughing real hard because I was also attracted by the thumbnail and clicked.

But – I hope others don’t follow suit and make sharing content look like time square with motion everywhere.

What a twist. In the 90s, the internet forced countries to wake up to the new modern era. It was a combination of American companies wanting both to expand and provide goodwill.

And now, this new era is going to tell American companies to fuck off.

This is a very rude question, but on this subject of being lean, I looked up your 990, and you pay yourself less than … well, you pay yourself half or a third as much as some of your engineers.

Yes, and our goal is to pay people as close to Silicon Valley’s salaries as possible, so we can recruit very senior people, knowing that we don’t have equity to offer them. We pay engineers very well. [Leans in performatively toward the phone recording the interview.] If anyone’s looking for a job, we pay very, very well.

But you pay yourself pretty modestly in the scheme of things.

I make a very good salary that I’m very happy with.

That’s pretty cool. But knowing the number would matter.