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TCW69: Fangirl Moments, AI Triumphs, and Taylor Swift Drama. · The Curve

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  I switched to banana, my being and it's all gone all over my laptop. You are?
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  I switched to banana in my bag. Oh yeah, I was liming and you're not like
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  and then I went to get my laptop out and I was like, what?
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  I put a banana in my bag yesterday too and a plastic bag and shoved it in my handbag.
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  Oh, that's right, poor thing. It was because I always, if I take a top of wear and it's got liquid,
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  it just goes everywhere. So I put that in a top where anyway, the same thing happened yesterday.
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  I pulled it out of this. I went to the podcast show 2024. It's like, come I can't.
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  It's like a nerdy podcast event. To be fair, it was a pretty amazing event.
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  Like, so well organised, really cool speakers. I was like, do you want to remind me of remember
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  like girls day out, expo? Yeah, yeah. And you get like a free nivea bomb. Yeah.
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  And you get all these freebies from all the stands. Yeah, 20% off. It was like that except
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  for radio and audio nerds. I was like taking all these business cards from like, AI this,
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  this kind of microphone. I was like, and it was quite funny because you know how
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  five, 10 years ago podcasts were pretty lame, you know, like no one listened to them.
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  I also still think now people are like, oh, you just podcast? You know, like it's like a little hobby.
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  Yeah, yeah. No, no, we actually make money. It's a business.
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  But there were actually a lot of people at the expo talking about monetisation of podcasts.
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  It's pretty hard, like a lot of podcasts don't make money. And also, okay, oh my god,
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  so I went to the store. I was like texting like the whole time. I was like, I'm going to just
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  met Stonso. I'm going to meet this person. I don't know who they are though, but I'm really happy
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  for you. I was like, absolutely on one. So I was like sitting there. You know, Elizabeth
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  Day, I'm like, I'm obsessed with her. She did this speech about, she did a talk. Oh, sorry,
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  for anyone who doesn't know. I don't know. I was shocked when you were like, who is that?
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  I could see you were so excited. So I was like, lean over to Emily.
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  I'll bless her heart. I'll continue with her. When you say bless her heart, it makes it sound
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  like she's really struggling. No, no, no. She's like such a sweet heart. She's just so cute.
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  And I was like, Emily, do you know her love with Deus? She was like, no, I was like, thank goodness.
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  And then we go gold and we both looked and we were like, oh yeah, she's actually a big deal,
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  but anyway, she's really good friends with Dolly Alderton. Okay. So both of them are journalists,
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  writers, speakers. They're hilarious. Like what I love about both of them is they speak about
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  dating and love and just life as a woman in a really fun but intellectual way. They really
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  challenge like, you know, side norms and yeah. And I just, I really respect the way that they
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  write and speak and they're just hilarious. Anyway, I actually went to the such a thing. They're
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  just hilarious. You know, the most embarrassing, basically sorry, on track. So she did this diversity
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  talk where she was saying, if you look at the podcast, like the top podcast in the UK or in the
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  world, it's dominated by white men. Yeah. And I don't know. I guess it wasn't really something I
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  was aware of weirdly. Like I kind of, I think maybe in New Zealand, it's because we're often in
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  podcasts. Like it's all a heaps of actually female podcasts in New Zealand, Australia. But I think
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  in the UK and the US, it's quite different. Anyway, she was just talking about that. She knows she's
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  a white female and there's obviously black voices that need to be heard. Like voices are so many.
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  You know, it's not like she was recognising the fact that she's also coming from a place of
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  privilege, but she was like, why are there so many old white men in the podcast charts? Anyway,
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  I was sitting there listening to her and I weirdly haven't been that emotional lately. I don't know
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  if it's my anti-anxiety or what it is, but I was sitting there with tears in my eyes. Just like,
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  are you on your period? No. I was so inspired. I was like, you're awesome. She's so, oh my god,
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  it's such a friend. Anyway, so she finished. I never seen you thank you so much. Gosh. Wait,
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  guess what happened was the talk finished and I was like, I don't know what came over me,
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  but I just stood up and walked like, yeah. And I kind of, it was the first talk I'd been to in
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  the main stage. I didn't realise they were trying to usher celebrities off the side into the other
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  room. And so if he's like, and I just stroked right up and I was like, hi, and then I sort of got
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  there and had this lump in my throat and couldn't talk properly. And I was like, I just was like,
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  honestly, it was on the Virgin Tears was so embarrassing. I was like, I just, I'm a budding
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  Elizabeth day. And like, I was just like, oh god, I'm embarrassing. Anyway, I was trying to picture
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  the podcast because she started a production company. And I was like, how cool did it be if we
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  could like, you know, somehow be involved with daylight. She was like, send us an email, I'll keep
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  an eye out. So I went back to my seat. I quickly was like, hi, Elizabeth, so lovely to meet you,
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  like Roger Adam, immediately. And then I was like, we've had this many listens and we're all
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  about this. And then I was like, wow, this is like a really great pitch. It was like passionate,
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  right? Did you read it and think, yes, yeah, yeah. Anyway, I got this email back, which definitely
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  wasn't from her. Like it was someone writing from her email. And it was signed off Elizabeth day
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  because I saw her wandering around the expo. And you were like, you can just say, I was like, I was
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  actually quite gathered. But anyway, what I was thinking is, you know, I think this is a one
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  thing I've ever asked from our community. I would love to get in on the podcast. Do you think
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  if we can rest her on social media, she would be like, oh my god, cool. Yeah, maybe I'm sure she'd
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  be like, yeah, I'll do it to show you up. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because she's a great way to get
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  someone on the podcast. Because we haven't she pitched her manager because when I was telling her
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  about the coach, she's like, oh, I think I've heard of it. And I was like, what? How? I don't know,
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  but I thought maybe when we tried to get her on through her manager, they pitched it to her.
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  Maybe it's what she'd heard of it. Yeah. If anyone listening is also a fan, in fact, even if you
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  don't know who she is, can you please just tag her on socials? We'll put a video up or something.
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  We just need like mass social media. What is going on? And also maybe she'll feel really special.
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  But if you, for a birthday present, Christmas present, could wrangle that? Could wrangle that?
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  I got you a dice in here at, like get me a Elizabeth Day. Okay. I'll start now. Maybe
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  about your like 40 or 50th? Fine, fine. Still be valid. Would love that. When she's not podcasting
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  anymore, she's got plenty of spare time. Yeah, yeah. Although she might be podcasting for
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  a month. Yeah, true. Now what's been happening in Binance News, Vic? In Binance News. So get
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  old in the video. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Something in AI, right? Yes. Yep. So it's the AI post-a child. So
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  they're really benefiting from all this demand in AI. Like if I think of the past week or so,
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  how many times do you reckon we've said AI? A lot. Yeah. A special. And we knew bees. Yeah,
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  just get the expo. See through it. Yeah. Anyway, so the issue price is now at $1,000 a share
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  because they had another really, really massive, massively great result this week.
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  The revenue for the first three months of the year was up 300 per cent to nearly $30 billion. Holy
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  shit. Holy shit. Fucking killing it. Sorry. No, no, that's, but have you invested in then? I've
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  invested in the S&P 500. So they're in there and they're coming a bigger and bigger portion
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  of the S&P 500, but the bigger they get. What is their product exactly? It's like AI computing
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  chips effectively. Like the founder. So it's still run by the founder, which is also crazy. So it's
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  now a $2.6 trillion company. How long's it been around? So he started in 1993. Oh, my God. So it's
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  like 30 something years old. Yeah. No hold on. What were they doing for AI? So they were doing
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  certain types of chips. And then he found this new way of like creating a computing chip that
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  was like, Oh, God, this is going to be game changing. And then he was like, Oh, God, I've made
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  this chip that's like super, super great. Anyway. And so he was like, right, okay, this is going
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  to change the world. And then everyone kind of launched on the AI bandwagon and his chips with
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  the superior ones. So everyone was demanding his chips. So this is how it's started. I kind of
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  honestly, you know, when people even like celebrities or artists would ever become overnight successes.
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  The video feels like one of those, but they've obviously been around for like three decades.
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  And this is why it's like, hold your stuff for a long haul. Because it's true. It's like,
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  things don't happen overnight. But anyway, if you were to get a tattoo, would it be
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  whole for the long term? Yeah. How much would I need to pay you to get a tramp stamp that
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  says something like that, like a Warren Buffett quote? If you paid me $100,000, I would do it.
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  Holy shit. Let's crowd source. I'm literally going to start. Go find me. Imagine if you
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  got a $100,000 though, and I'd put it straight back into the business. Okay. Perfect. Definitely
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  deal. You don't want to just keep it for yourself. I mean, so I'm a loser for me. What are you going to
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  get? I'll get it shines here always around my bum hole. Wow. Okay. Right. We always go from
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  finance to the most seriously. Give me a finance one. I'll get a finance tattoo if we raise
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  $100,000. We can put it in our curve bank account. Oh, yeah. Okay. What should I get? I'll do
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  anything. Anything. Yeah. Okay. We can bring it on that. Yeah. So the founder, he saw
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  in three and a half percent of the video. So he is now worth $90 billion. For three and a half
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  percent. Yeah. He does a tiny bit of a massive company. There's still a massive amount. Yeah,
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  that's tiny. But I reckon he's sitting there wishing he probably hadn't given so much away.
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  You know, imagine if he owned a hundred percent. Sorry. How much is his, what's his net worth?
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  90 billion. I just think sometimes when you get over a million, I can't comprehend. I know. Yeah.
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  Like 90 billion. Like what even is one billion? But yeah. So he has fortune through seven billion
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  in one day. Is this from this? Yeah. From the result last week. I wonder what he did with that.
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  Surely you sell out at that point? No. It's a bad sign to investors.
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  CEO is selling. You're like, oh God. But anyway, yes, it's interesting because now you actually have
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  Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, all those big companies designing their own chips or trying to get into the
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  chip game. Shame. They're going, hang on a second. What's his name? What's his name?
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  Yeah. Jinseng Kuang. Can we go all in? Yeah. He was like, leather jacket. He's cool. How old is he?
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  61. Shit. Yeah. Love him. So who's 30 when he started this business? Yeah.
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  There he is. Oh, he looks cool. Yeah. He looks like a Steve Jobs get on the stage and like sell my
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  company to the world. You know. Anyway, they also announced. So they should price at $1,000 now,
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  which is quite hard for a lot of people to buy one here. You don't have a thousand US dollars. So
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  they also announced a team for one stock. But is it a green flag or a red flag? So it's a green flag.
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  It's a green flag because in the olden days, back in the day, they used to do stock splits. So
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  say in a video's share price was like $500. But lots of people couldn't afford $500. They would
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  split the stock so it would be accessible for more people. But now you can buy smaller fractions
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  of shares on like DIY platforms like Shazies and blah, blah, blah. But I don't understand why
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  they're still doing it. But you can't like a lot of people can't buy fixed fractional shares.
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  Like there's a lot of countries you can't that's not possible. So also like corporate investors
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  or like institutional investors, they don't use platforms like Shazies. They have to go and
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  also for employees like if we were to give our employees stock and you could only do it in
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  thousand increments. Yeah. Right. You know. So it's just like it's like easier to. So it's basically
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  but it's having a piece of cake and then crumbling it up and then giving it to more people.
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  Yeah. You still get the same amount of cake as one piece, but it's in lots of crumbles.
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  No, you wouldn't get the same size because if you've broken it up, you don't get a type of
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  that's not very good analogy then. No, in terms of the stock split. So from an investor's point
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  of view, there's no difference. If you owned $10,000 of NVIDIA and they did a stock split,
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  you still have $10,000 in NVIDIA. They're just the makeup would be different.
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  So it's like having the same piece of cake, but it's been cut in a different way.
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  Yeah, it's been cut into four pieces, but you've still got the same amount. Yeah.
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  Yeah, yeah. We got there. We got there. But companies only do it when the share price is done
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  so well because the share price has gone up and up and up and up and they're like, oh gosh,
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  it's too expensive now. We need to bring it back down in terms of the share price. So it's a good
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  sign. That's why it's a green flag as well because it's usually you wouldn't do a stock split if
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  your share price had gone from $100 to $1.00. You're not then splitting it to $0.10.
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  Yeah, there's no point. Yeah. So yes, but his commentary was super positive. He was like,
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  AI is changing the world, all of this. We're in the next industrial revolution.
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  The kind of stuff. I feel like it's like the invention of the iPhone or the phone.
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  All of it again. Yeah. Like maybe not in their scene, but in terms of the internet, massive.
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  But I do feel like AI is this next enormous giant change that's going to change
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  the way we do everything. Yeah. No, definitely. And I'm not sure if I'm like terrified or excited
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  by it. I'm trying to jump on the excited bandwagon. So speaking to this really cool girl,
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  I met her yoga studio. I'm going to say the podcast conference. No, no. No, but she was saying
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  because she's working tech over in the States. Yeah. And I said, gosh, it's so weird. I was at this,
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  oh yeah. Oh my god, you let it go. And at band camp, we do it at the expo. There was an AI chat.
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  I looked around and it was all guys. I was like, oh god, guys are, and someone else
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  had said to me, you know, men are adopting AI much more than women are. And I was talking to
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  this girl I met at the yoga studio. She was saying, I'm not keen to get on board the AI bandwagon
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  because even though you could get diversity now, she's like, who created AI? So like how much
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  control are you going to have from now onward in terms of like the perspective it was created
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  was from a white man. It was just an interesting perspective for us. I was like, oh shit,
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  that's quite a good call. And disproportionately, women are probably more affected in terms of the
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  job losses because we are overrepresented in like roles that are admin assistants or office
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  assistants. All of those jobs, which are more high risk of terms of being redundant from AI.
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  Do you know what I heard the other day? Guys talking about part-time work as a frictional job.
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  Have you heard that? And apparently they all start, like they've started calling part-time work
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  frictional work because it like sounds a bit more chic than part-time and like, you know, part-time
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  mums or whatever. I was like, mother fuck. Why is that bad? You just decided that your part-time work
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  is more fucking annoying than a woman's part-time work. So we're calling it frictional working.
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  I was like, nah, yeah, not getting around it. No, no, fair enough.
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  Yes, so that's all I had on Nvidia. I thought you were saying it's all I had. I was like, that was
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  one thing. No, still going on that AI discussion. I think you could flip that on its head. And if you
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  were say a university student right now and you were like, what should I study? Like, you would be
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  wanting to study like coding and AI and like, those are the jobs that are going to be such high
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  demand in the future. And like, there's a crazy stat. So in the UK, companies are climbing
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  over themselves to get people with AI skills. Like, even think of us. We're like, who can we
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  talk to about getting AI in the business? And we actually spoke to something the other day.
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  And I was like, well, if this is shit, we'll just talk about it on the podcast. Yeah, he was like,
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  okay, okay, I'll do a good job. I promise. But, you know, like, people can sell you stuff when you
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  get mail consultants. I know. Sorry, that was moody. But it was more just the idea that like,
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  you're paying all this money. You don't, because we don't understand AI, we're like, cool, we'll pay
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  15,000 for this. But you don't know really. I think just like the way that lots of industries are
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  very, the lingo and the language is so hard to understand on purpose so that you can sell it to
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  other people. And I was kind of just like, is this worth it? Like, you don't know until we've done it.
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  But also, I think not embracing it could be even more detrimental to the business.
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  Everyone will play catch up. And everyone will be way more advanced. And you'd be, you'd be the one
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  sitting there being like, come on, why didn't I do that earlier? So we're confirming the
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  closures that little bit. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We're just having a little business meeting on the
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  podcast. Yeah. What are the gender issues? Anyway, so yes, people with AI skills can earn 14% more
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  than their peers. Really? They're in such high demand. Yeah. Yeah. And in the US,
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  it can be up to 25% more if you've got skills in AI. I reckon it's similar to social media. You
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  know how like, sorry to anyone that's like over the edge of 50 listening to this. We love you.
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  But I must say, you know, when you're in a position of like feeling a little bit like you've not
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  missed the boat, like I felt like this TikTok, for example, still do. But I feel like there's with
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  AI it's similar, like you can lean out or you can lean it. Yeah. And like a lot of people will just
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  because social media is so hard to understand if you've never done it. Yeah. It's easy to be like,
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  I'll just pay you can you do it. Yeah. But actually learning and constantly learning is great. Yeah.
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  Yeah. No, definitely. There's also an interesting article I saw. And I think we're going to see more
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  and more of this is that chat GPT, so open AI who wants to chat GPT, approach scholarship
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  to Hanson and was like, Hey, can we use your voice? They're creating an AI system.
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  This was at the expo. No. Yes, that they can use your voice and basically make you say anything.
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  Yeah. And I was like, holy shit, like how are you meant to imagine if someone's made something
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  up that you said and it sounded like you. Yeah. Well, that was like, there was a whole lot of
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  fraud cases where people were stealing using AI to replicate children's voices. That's right.
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  Calling their parents, being like, ham and trouble, like, which is fucking horrible. But yeah,
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  so their approach scholarship had someone like, Hey, can we use your voice as it's kind of like a
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  sorry, like we use your voice for that. Because she was in that movie during the years.
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  Yes. Yeah. Yeah. And she was effectively, that was like way before. It was quite random.
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  Yeah. I feel like it was a bad movie. Yeah. I was like, where is this going? Yeah. Anyway.
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  So and she was like, no. And then they released the AI product. It sounded exactly like her.
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  And now she's fighting them, saying you use my voice and she didn't know we didn't.
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  We've used and like, how do you, how do you even fight that? I've seen this on socials.
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  I've seen it being like the scary truth of that. I didn't actually read the article.
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  But yeah. So I think it's going to be quite interesting. The lawsuits that are going to come out
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  from it. Because you're also, it's a company like open AI owns the company that own the AI
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  products. Therefore they're liable. I don't know. I feel like it's going to be so many cases.
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  Who's that stupid though? Like if someone like Scarlett Johansson says no, you can't use
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  my voice. Well, they say that they didn't. That's what I mean. I bet they didn't.
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  Because you wouldn't be stupid enough to do that. Yeah.
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  Would you or a giant company? It's going to be public news. Or maybe you do it on purpose.
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  But it's like how different? How different does the product need to be for it not to be similar?
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  It's like clothing. You know, I could fully copy that grain shirt and put a little button or
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  a little stitch. And then it's not, I haven't copied it. You know, it's like how different
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  does something have to be. Anyway, if you're looking for a profession, if you're sitting there,
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  is a young adult looking for a new profession? I reckon you just have to know the youth of today.
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  I reckon an AI lawyer. They would have been hands full.
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  Oh, I'm joking. I'm joking. What else is happening there?
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  Other things live nation. So there's been an update there. So, you know, the whole
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  Taylor Swift saga, how she released her tickets on ticket master. So live nation has ticket master.
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  Suora. Yeah. And there was a whole falafel.
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  Falafel? It was a delicious falafel.
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  What was I trying to say?
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  You trying to say kebab.
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  Oh my god. It was a falafel. So good.
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  Oh my god.
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  Wow. So let's talk to anyone through who missed the falafel. What was happening?
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  The ticket was a falafel was that live nation owns ticket master. And Taylor Swift went to
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  sell the tickets. So the era is to her. And there was a whole breakdown in the system in terms of
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  the whole site effectively broke down. And then there was people.
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  That's right. She promised her that there'd be no issues. They could handle the demand.
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  And then they couldn't. And they've got the biggest monopoly on the entertainment ticket
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  sales industry in terms of the like 40% market share. Like if she couldn't really have gone
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  with anyone else. So she said, make sure she doesn't have an anyway.
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  Did then there was this whole drama of the fact she couldn't sell them through anyone else.
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  So it was on a fact she could go. So anyway, back in 2010,
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  ticket master and live nation merged together. And they promised the US government that they would
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  compete in a nice way in terms of with other competitors. They wouldn't hold such a dominant
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  position effectively. And now they've kind of gone back on their word and they've stifled a lot
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  of competition. They're kind of getting too big for their boots. So the US government is now
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  suing them for antitrust or anti-competition behavior. So yeah. So it looks like there will be a
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  break up of ticket master and live nation, which is not, which is like, I don't know, force
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  break up is. So sorry, ticket master is owned by live nation. Yeah. So what does that mean if
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  they separate? So it just means that they will become two super companies. And why is that about
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  that? To create more competition. Oh, yeah. So it's kind of like they've just got too big and too
• 22:20
  big to it. Oh, I didn't realize that that was like, right. So live nation is a ticket place.
• 22:25
  So it's ticket master and it's owned by the same people. Yeah. The whole thing. Yeah.
• 22:29
  Obviously. Yes. Yes. But how is it if it's owned by the same people? Isn't that still the same
• 22:35
  thing? Or is it a knowledge? Yeah. What was the difference? And it being...
• 22:39
  Well, it would become two public companies. So they might be owned by the same people.
• 22:42
  They'll be owned by the public, if that makes sense. Yeah. And they'll have different.
• 22:45
  We've in new streams, different customers, different like all of that.
• 22:50
  So it would be like, if we had the blurb and we in that was like, you know, another financial
• 22:55
  platform that we had. Yeah. And it was just so successful. Yeah. And they were like, you have to divide
• 23:00
  and conquer. So it would be like, the blurb would be over here. The curve would be over here.
• 23:03
  And we would have to have separate stuff, separate strategies. It would be like, if we merged
• 23:08
  with Stephen Bartlett, Elizabeth's down, like all the top podcasts and created this massive
• 23:14
  podcast media company. And then there was no room for me. Dominated Spotify lessons. And no one
• 23:21
  else could get their new podcast and the podcast in. Then yes, the government could come and be like,
• 23:25
  hang on now, you guys, you're too, you're too big. We shouldn't let you merge in the first place.
• 23:30
  Sorry. It's crazy that government even has a saying of that. There's huge discussions that
• 23:34
  moment about it, particularly in Australia with like supermarkets, they have like what you call
• 23:38
  like an oligopoly or duopoly because there's like, there's only few companies. So it's not one
• 23:42
  company, but it's two. And all of them, they own like, well, worth count down, pack and save,
• 23:49
  new one, like two big Australian companies. And so they have a lot of pricing power. So they're
• 23:56
  like, you know, if count down is selling milk for four dollars, the other companies get
• 24:04
  to sell it for four dollars. If they increase it to five, well, of course, they're going to increase
• 24:06
  it to five. They can get more revenue. You know, so it's like this. So they're trying to break them up.
• 24:10
  And in the little corner, for huge shops, just have no, yeah. So there is a place for competition.
• 24:17
  And there's a whole discussion around it as well with all the big tech companies, like Google
• 24:21
  is getting so massive. Isn't Amazon the same? Meta, Amazon, like meter in social media,
• 24:26
  getting way too massive. Like, there's just like so many discussions around it. And they just
• 24:30
  get bigger as well. You can just buy the small people. Just eat them up. You know, I like Facebook
• 24:35
  bought Instagram. Yeah. You know, that could have been a hugely successful business right now. Yeah.
• 24:40
  Can you please Google the worth of, oh, I'll look it up. Of Instagram now. Of Instagram?
• 24:44
  So it's estimated to be worth about four billion dollars. And it was sold for one billion.
• 24:50
  Yeah. So four times the money in 14 years. But still one billion is pretty enormous. Yeah.
• 24:56
  Yes. So I'm just thinking we're already over half an hour.
• 25:00
  No, I was going to finish on something I wasn't going to use, but yeah, yeah.
• 25:05
  Do you want to finish on something else? Non-finance related?
• 25:10
  She's like, I actually don't talk about anything but money.
• 25:14
  If you have any suggestions of what Sof could get tattooed on her.
• 25:17
  Oh, yeah. Just leave it in the comments. That'd be great. Thanks.
• 25:20
  Yeah. Very helpful. Yeah. On socials or in the podcast notes.
• 25:23
  Perfect. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, my God.
• 25:25
  I'm going to approach some tattoos so long as I see one.
• 25:27
  Oh, my God. Imagine if we actually, I would get it mainly because it's a pretty funny story.
• 25:32
  Yeah.
• 25:33
  Except could we get it lower than our bikini bottom line so that it's not visible in togs?
• 25:38
  That would be my only request. Yeah.
• 25:40
  Maybe I'll get it like on the sole of my foot.
• 25:41
  No, no. We've already agreed to trim stands.
• 25:43
  Okay. Oh, gosh.
• 25:45
  I don't know. Surely it's...
• 25:48
  Maybe we'll let the community do so.
• 25:49
  I wish we'd get it.
• 25:50
  And don't even I'll look please.
• 25:51
  Please just say no. We're, please say no. We're, please say no.
• 25:53
  Please say stopping those stupid guys.
• 25:55
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