- Welcome to the Tai Lopez show.
I have one of the more interesting books I've read in 2017.
Scott Galloway, he flew out here
on his way to Vegas to party.
He's a professor at NYU,
he's been ranked as one of the top business professors
and he wrote a book that I think is important.
It's not just interesting but it's important
and some books are interesting but not important,
and some books are important but not interesting,
so this is kinda both.
So I wanna lay the groundwork
and I read the whole book last night, again.
I kinda had read it before,
but I read it from start to finish.
I was up until five in the morning reading this.
- I'm sorry about that.
- No, no, it was worth it.
So the book is about the Big Four
that pretty much dominate more than you realize.
Amazon, Google, Facebook and Apple.
So I've been tweeting about this.
I don't know if you've seen my Twitter
the last three or four days. - I have.
I recognized some of your stats.
- You see it's up? Yeah. - Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- I would put that it's a quote
but it gets a lot more Twitter if it's,
so I kinda reworded 'em.
But I figured you got the stats from somewhere,
so I got that stats from you-- - That's fine.
- So Apple has more profit than Amazon's had,
Apple in one quarter has more
than Amazon's had since inception.
Facebook, you consider the most successful
like growth organism on the planet.
- Most successful that made a thing in history.
- You say Google's god because we used to pray to god
when we didn't know something,
and now we Google it. - Yup.
- And you say Amazon is...
I liked how you put Amazon it's like,
unlimited capital raised.
It's goal is to make it
as hard as possible to compete with it.
So they're like if we can expand billions of dollars.
Did you really say floating warehouses?
- So Amazon has applied for patents on a bunch of things
including a warehouse that floats
and drones that can reassemble from small to bigger drones,
and I think it's a bit of a head fake
just so they can dominate the front page.
So right now we're all obsessed
with their second headquarters.
- Yeah.
- Most companies don't do it,
they just make a decision and they announce it.
But if you look at old media,
it's basically been co-opted into being
the investor relations PR department for big tech.
So how many things have you received via drone?
- I don't think, we get so much, I don't think so.
I think it's coming in a truck.
- I'll take the over-under on none,
but when Amazon announced that they were gonna
start delivering drones five years ago on 60 Minutes,
the press has been writing about it
every week for the last five years.
Uber just announced that in LA,
they're working with NASA
to come up with these flying taxis.
So I don't mean to be cynical,
but I don't think when I'm here in two years visiting you--
- (laughing) I know, I saw that 2020 or something.
- Companies traditionally in the past
like under-promise and over-deliver.
These companies over-promise and under-deliver,
and the press seems to put up with it.
- So you're literally saying,
prior to the world we live in now
almost works for these companies
and that traditional media now is the PR department.
Apple is funded by investors that don't care about profits--
- Amazon. - I'm sorry, Amazon.
And Apple runs pretty much,
sometimes I'll text somebody and they'll go,
it was iMessage, I feel like it's something wrong.
- Different color, sometimes it doesn't go through.
- Yeah, they're green.
They're like, what the hell?
Let me read this, this is interesting.
So I was talking a little earlier before we went live,
about how I can't tell if you love 'em or hate 'em
or maybe it's a little bit of both.
But you said, by the way, good job on the book
to put things like this in visuals.
I can't tell you how many books forget to do this.
So you talk about here,
"Imagine a retailer that refuses to pay sales tax,
"treats it's employees poorly,
"destroys hundreds of thousands of jobs,
"and yet is celebrated as a paragon of business innovation."
I'm assuming you're talking about Amazon?
- Yup.
- Then you say,
"A computer company that withholds information
"about a domestic act of terrorism
"from Federal Investigators
"with the support of a fan following
"that views the firm similar to religion."
Apple? - That's right.
- So you consider Apple almost a religious state?
- As we become more educated and affluent,
church of tenace goes down,
but our questions and anxieties are bigger and bigger,
creates a void for religion.
Apple's our religion, Steve Jobs is our Jesus Christ,
and this is the new cross.
- Wow!
Not controversial at all.
And you say, "A social media firm that analyzes
"thousands of images of your children,
"activates your phone as a listening device,
"and sells the information to Fortune 500 companies."
Is Facebook literally recording us when we don't know it?
- So if you have the Facebook app open,
there's ambient listening.
Now to be fair, it's just there so it can serve you
more relevant ads.
So if you're at an Adele concert,
you might get served her album.
They're not doing anything insidious with it.
The scary part though is that Facebook has shown us,
they haven't put in place the safeguards
to make sure that it's not weaponized by bad actors.
- Right. - So the scary thing isn't
that Facebook is listening,
it's that an intelligence unit
or the Russian government might be listening.
- Right, so they're hacking in somehow.
Zack...
Zack's here running the sound,
but his brother Andy is convinced,
I have one of the Alexa things and he's like,
"I don't wanna be in the room,
"trust me, it's listening to us."
- It spools 45 seconds backwards.
So again it creates, also, it's interesting things.
Should we train Alexa that when it hears a gunshot,
to call the police automatically?
Violation of privacy versus crime prevention.
There's just gonna be some very interesting things
that happen with these new technologies.
- Or if somebody yells our fire or something, loud enough.
- Or help, of I've fallen and I can't get up.
- I've fallen and I can't get up might work.
I got a 99 year old grandma.
And then lastly, you said,
"An ad platform that commands in some markets
"a 90% share of the most lucrative sector in media
"yet avoids anti-competitive regulation
"through aggressive litigation lobbyists."
Assuming that's Google?
- 90% more share than Mabella the railroads had
of a market that by dollar volume,
is bigger than the entire advertising market
of any country with the exception of the US.
- When you add Facebook into that,
you talk about that later in the book,
Google and Facebook, AdWords.
So Google controls AdWords,
they control YouTube advertising now,
and then you have Facebook controlling it's own,
and of course Instagram ads.
And really, when you think online outside of that,
there's not that much more.
There's SnapChat doing a little bit of advertising,
Twitter.
So are they aggressive in terms of lobbying?
- Oh yeah, they learned from Microsoft's failure
not to lobby.
They spent a great deal of money on lobbying.
You talked about Facebook,
this isn't a communications vehicle.
I doubt you even take calls on this.
I don't trust people that call me on this,
only if they text me.
80% of our time on phone is in app,
and six of the top 10 apps
are owned by one company, Facebook.
And you talked about digital marketing.
Between Facebook and Google,
the commanded last year 103%
of the growth in digital marketing.
So if you're in digital marketing,
which we think of as being this great growth sector,
and you don't work for Facebook or Google,
you now join newspapers or television
and you're working for a business in structural decline.
- Yeah, I mean for sure.
Me and my business partner have spent $600 million combined
on marketing our companies that we own,
and almost all of that is with Facebook.
He spent more on Facebook, I've spent more on Google.
- [Scott] Yup.
- But I mean it's exactly what you put in the book, 90%.
All right, let me skip ahead.
I've got various things that I,
at five in the morning, I kinda put right here.
You already talked about this,
kind of the head fate things that they do.
Where is this one that I thought was so fascinating?
So...
Let's talk about driving prices down.
So we traditionally think
that the reason you don't want a monopoly.
Rockefeller was the richest man in history
if you adjust to today's dollars,
about $600 billion he had in today's dollars,
and it's because he had a monopoly.
He ran the thing.
Now Google comes in and you're talking about
how their ad revenue's gone up,
but they've been able to deliver
a lower price to advertising.
So is that a good thing?
So maybe monopolies are good in this case
because they're offering us cheap?
The fact that Amazon is almost a monopoly online,
they're able to buy in bulk and ship.
So can monopolies be good or are they evil?
- So the term natural monopolies is that
in some sectors they require enormous capital investment,
it might make sense to let someone have monopoly-like power.
So certain cable companies are offered limited competition
and aren't subject to the same antitrust.
What you have with Google and the other technology companies
that you referenced, that's so powerful,
is they have a different gestalt.
Most consumer companies think,
if we have a good year for Chanel or Procter & Gamble,
we raise prices with inflation.
Tech comes to things with a different viewpoint.
Google, last year, grew its revenues 20%
while lowering it's prices 21%.
So if you're selling t.v. ads or print ads,
you have to compete with Google
that has better products this year
and lowered its prices 21%.
So every year technology eats more and more of the economy
because it's viewpoint is,
let's massively improve our product,
but let's also lower the prices.
Whereas most consumer companies go,
if we're killin' it, let's raise prices.
- So in a way it can be good,
but maybe it's one of those monsters
that can get out of control conceivably.
And eventually,
if Google just started doing things that we didn't like,
we wouldn't have much control 'cause we're,
like me, I'm running all my ads.
And you see it with Facebook.
If Facebook doesn't like a product
you're trying to advertise,
for those of you entrepreneurs listening in,
you almost have to switch business.
I know people that sell supplements, let's say.
Facebook doesn't really like supplements.
And so I know people that get out of that whole business
once they realize Facebook won't approve their ads.
- So for example with Google, there's a lot of concerns.
One, there's now something called Google Answers
where people are now asking Google
because they trust it more
than their priest, their rabbi, their scholar questions
and Google is answering them for us.
And the question is, do we want to outsource truth?
My kid no longer looks to me for answers, he asks Alexa.
So are we comfortable with a new source of information?
And are we comfortable with this company
controlling 90% share?
You kinda toned in on the crux of the issue and that is,
we're gonna wrestle with,
is what is always good for the consumer,
always good for society? - Right.
- 'Cause it'd be hard to deny
these companies aren't good for the consumer,
but if Amazon is putting every retailer out of business,
Facebook and Google will grow their business
$22 billion this year.
They need an additional 12,000 employees
to handle that additional revenue.
Traditional media companies, ad agencies, t.v. stations,
need 150,000 people. - So a 12th, roughly?
- So basically you're gonna have
two and a half Yankee stadiums
of copywriters, creatives, showrunners, production teams
get their pink slips every January 1
because of Google and Facebook's growth and efficiency.
So we've had that in the past--
- [Tai] We're gonna be replaced by robots.
- We've had job destruction,
we've just never had companies this good at it.
- Yeah.
I mean, there's all these books now about living wages
and automatic, what do they call it?
- [Both] Universal income.
- Which is basically saying,
there ain't gonna be enough jobs,
we're gonna save so much money
with efficiencies with technology,
that we're gonna have to just pay people for not working.
You already see that in Scandinavia.
I mean in Scandinavia, if you lose a job,
they pay you for two years almost your full salary.
So one interesting thing,
let's switch subjects for a second here.
Really good part.
For those of you chiming in late, we're with The Four,
The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google.
Professor Scott Galloway flew out here,
was kind enough to come out.
You've got great people recommending you read the book,
good ole' Seth Godin, Jonah Berger,
I know a Jonah, he wrote a great book Contagious.
But you're a professor,
you teach at NYU Business School Stern.
This was interesting 'cause I was like,
is he an active professor saying this?
But you kinda criticize the structure about electives
and people going to two year business school.
And it sounded almost like,
I don't wanna put words in your mouth.
Are you saying that one whole year,
you think the structures almost waste people time
and it makes money for the colleges,
but doesn't serve them best?
- Yeah, I think if you look at the cost of education,
it outpaced healthcare, its outpaced cable t.v,
it has become a social ill.
I think our university system
has effectively become a caste system,
where your future's largely and unfortunately
dictated by the collage you go to or the level of education
and education has become unattainable.
It's become so expensive for kids like me
who was raised by a single mother who was a secretary
just three miles down the road here.
The thing driving the cost is this union called tenure.
We have social services, food stamps and welfare
for the undereducated.
We have welfare for the overeducated called tenure.
And in business school the way it manifests itself
is we have a second year, we really only need one year.
The first year of management operations,
marketing and finance,
takes the kid making $60 K a year,
turns him into a kid making $110 K a year,
which is the average salary coming out of NYU.
Great return on capital, right?
The second year is largely a waste
so we can change $120,000 in tuition instead of $60
and fulfill the teaching requirements
of a bunch of tenure faculty that should have been
put on an ice flow 30 years ago.
We could do an MBA in one year--
- [Tai] Are you popular at NYU?
- Yeah, as you can imagine-- - With the professors?
- I don't get invited to lunch a lot with my colleagues.
- (laughing) You're like you, iceberg time.
You're pissing me off.
- Having said that, I want to be serious,
NYU loves free thought and free thinking,
even if you offend people.
The second year should have four pillars two.
And the four pillars should be
Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google.
To understand these companies,
how they create value,
the instinct they tap into,
how they've been able to aggregate the GDP of India
across the population of the lower east side of Manhattan,
is to understand the intersection between
technology, innovation and media,
and information services and retail.
So the four pillars of business in my view,
post management operations, finance and marketing,
are these four companies.
- So for those of you listening that are entrepreneurs
or considering to be entrepreneurs,
what you're really saying is,
what you talk about in this book
is the ultimate case study.
If you dissect, reverse engineer these four companies,
you almost have a micro-model
for anything that you wanna do.
You're gonna need to know these skills.
You're gonna need to know
the design and creativity, and marketing abilities.
This is how I think about it, correct me if I'm wrong.
To me, when I think of Apple,
it embodies the ability to have sleek designs,
urgency marketing, scarcity marketing.
It's kind of beautiful.
When I think of Google like you said,
I think of a lot of, it's information technology.
Ultimately they have PhDs in library science.
If you get a PhD in library science,
you're probably gonna go work at somewhere like Google.
When I think of Amazon I think of aggressive business.
I was just at a talk here in LA, Jet Bezos stopped in,
and the man was aggressively...
Taking Diapers.com was a company,
and he went to the owner of Diapers.com and he said,
"Listen to me, sell me your company."
And the guys said no, and he said,
"You better sell me your company
"or I'll just make my own Diapers version,
"I'll drop the price and put you out of business,"
and he dropped the price.
And one of his executives said to Jeff,
if we lower the price of diapers this much,
we'll lose $100 million a quarter.
And he goes, "I don't care."
And so when I think about those of you watching,
the need to be somewhat aggressive and competitive,
that's what I think about with Amazon.
And then Facebook, what I think about Facebook is,
really tapping into almost Internet 2.0.
You know Internet 1.0 was kind of just selling things online
and Internet 2.0 was connecting people
and using that information to sell to them.
Is that kind of a fair?
- So I'll take a swack at that as well.
So Google I think is a modern man's god.
We used to turn to a super being for answers,
now as we're more educated and more affluent,
we don't depend as much on a super being,
but we still have modern day anxieties and questions.
Will my kid be all right?
A prayer is, you send a query into the universe,
hoping there's divine intervention,
it sends you back an answer.
Now it's symptoms and treatment of croup
into the Google dialogue box.
Google is our modern man's god.
All of these tap into a specific instinct.
Facebook taps into our need to love.
One of the wonderful things about our species is,
we not only need to be loved,
kids with poor nutrition but high levels of affection
have greater outcomes than kids with good nutrition
and poor levels of affection,
but we need to love others.
The number one indicator,
a signal of you making it to 100 years or not,
is how many people in your life do you love?
I met your cousin working here,
that's a signal that you're a caretaker.
People who let their parents move in with them
and decide to take care of them,
the life expectancy goes up two to three years.
New mothers do not die.
It's an instinct to wanna take care of others
and the physical and mental nuance of taking care of others
releases a hormone that clears out the bad cholesterol,
then you get to stick around on this earth
a little bit longer.
Facebook taps into our need to love others
and is creating first and second degree relationships,
catalyzing and reinforcing them,
mostly through images that create a lot of empathy
and kind of second order love.
Moving further down the gut,
our instincts since we emerged from caves is always more.
We always want more 'cause the penalty for too little
is the worst death in the word, starvation.
So open your cupboards, open your closets,
look at this fat pad and you think, I don't need any more.
And then the moment after you think that you think,
I'd like a bigger pad or I'd like a penthouse in Manhattan,
or I would like more clothes.
So the more for less business strategy is usually
the company that's the most valuable in the world.
It's the strategy of Walmart,
it's the strategy of China as a society
to offer the world more for less,
and now the big winner there is Amazon.
Moving further down the torso,
your strongest instinct is survival.
Most of us get up in the morning,
we know we've checked that box.
You were not worried about making it
to the end of the day today.
You were confident you were gonna survive.
So you go to your second instinct which is procreation.
This is the new signal that you have good genes.
This means having an Apple IOS means
that you are educated, affluent,
appreciate artisanship, have disposable income,
and that you have good genes.
This is saying, I am a good mate.
- It's the peacocking a little bit.
- This is the feathers, the new luxury item,
and as a result,
has been able to pull off the impossible.
The low cost provider, meaning,
Apple can go into it's supply chain
and secure components for the lowest price
but it charges the premium price.
So that's the equivalent and I saw these fat cars out there.
Imagine the margins of a Lamborghini or a Ferrari
with the production volumes of a Toyota,
that's what Apple has done and as a result,
is the most profitable company in history.
More profitable that IMB, Oracle, Unilever,
Walmart and PNG combined.
We have never seen a profit generator
because it taps into a very irrational organ
and that's our reproductive organs.
You wanna as a company, figure out,
what instinct you tap into and ideally,
you wanna tap into the irrational ones.
Love, right?
- You said there's three in the book.
You said there's the rational,
the emotional, and the genitals, I like that.
It's like something sexy.
Not to interrupt you-- - No it's all right.
- One of the parts later in the book, by the way,
I highly recommend you guys grab this book The Four,
by here Professor Galloway.
You talked about how these companies,
you're talking about wealth on the Forbes 400,
when you subtract people who have inherited their money,
and what a large percentage of 'em
were either in retail or luxury goods.
- Yeah.
- And that's that procreation side of where we have luxury,
we're signaling to the world,
if you study classic evolutionary theory,
that was one of the things that Darwin struggled with.
Why does a male peacock have all these extra feathers
because they take energy and they seem to serve no purpose.
But the purpose was to show that I have so much energy
that I don't care.
So when a man buys, I have a lot of cars.
Charles Darwin will be like,
you're trying to signal to women
that not only could I have one Lamborghini,
but I forgot that I have,
like that kind of mentality.
So you're saying Apple, 'cause that's an interesting take,
that's what you think Apple's core--
- You're Ferrari and IOS signal the same thing,
it says that you're stronger,
smarter and faster than the other guy,
and that if a woman mates with you,
her kids are more likely to survive
than if she mates with someone who drives a Hyundai
and has Android.
At the end of the day, that's what you're signaling.
And you will pay a lot of money to feel,
I'm wearing a cashmere sweater that cost about
10 times more than I need to stay warm.
- Right.
- But I'm trying to communicate to people
that I have an Italian sense of design and sensibility
and that I'm an attractive mate.
And even if you're in a monogamous relationship
and not looking to procreate actively,
these things have been pounded into you
for millions of years,
so you still want that
canary yellow Ferrari in your garage,
even if you're happily married.
Even if you love your husband and have no plans
of procreating with anybody else,
you will still buy $600 ergonomically impossible shoes.
- [Tai] Right.
- So you wanna tap into the irrational margins
because irrational in the consumer world
is Latin for huge margins.
Wealthiest man in Europe, Bernard Arnault,
Vuitton and Hublot, signaling.
Wealthiest family in New York Este Lauder,
making your cheekbones look higher, you're a better mate.
The axiom of DNA trying to get everywhere
and then trying to select
the smartest, fastest and strongest DNA,
is the algorithm of creating more shareholder value
that last 30 years of any category.
More than tech, almost as much as finance,
depending on when you look at it--
- Yeah finance is a big one, but yeah.
- Take out inherited wealth and finance,
more people on the Forbes 400 list,
from retail and fashion more than any other category--
- Yeah, Zara, Guy-- - Number two, exactly.
And number three is H&M. - Yeah.
- So you either wanna appeal there.
The number one source of wealth creation
in consumer companies,
up until the introduction of Google,
from World War II was appealing to the heart.
Here's a high caloric paste for your kids,
that's appealing to the brain,
that'll keep 'em alive, it's nutritious.
No it's not, here's a high caloric paste
that signals that you love your kids more
than your neighbors, why?
'Cause choosy mom's choose Jiff.
So we took all these powders, these solvents, these soaps,
and we placed American, patriotic, European elegance,
maternal feelings of love around these things
and we turned $0.30 or $0.50 of powder
into something worth three to five bucks,
and PNG and Lever created
hundreds of billions of dollars in value.
You want to appeal to the irrational instincts.
- Yeah, I always say yesterday on the show,
I had Jordan Belfort, Wolf of Wall Street,
and he's a great salesmen, obviously, and he said,
"Ultimately 90% of it's emotional sales."
Humans struggle, I mean even if you look at our brain.
One of my business partners is a molecular neuroscientist,
and he basically says,
"The part of your brain that's rational,"
like your neocortex, your media prefrontal, all this.
He said, "It first goes through
"your brain stem and your medulla,
"all this primitive stuff,
"and then maybe your thoughts get up here."
You know, we can sense beauty,
a man or a woman can tell if somebody's beautiful
from almost any angle from 50 paces away.
If Angelina Jolie walked in here...
You would be able to know she's beautiful
even if she wasn't standing in front,
you could see from far.
And same with, you know whatever?
Hannah, what guy do you like?
- [Hannah] Matthew McConaughey.
- She likes Matthew McConaughey, okay.
- All right, all right, all right.
- All right, all right.
I was talking about the Wolf of Wall Street.
You know the chest thumping part?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah that's a great movie.
- That's only Matt McConaughey, they added that in.
He's like, I never did that.
All right, let's keep going through the book.
Few more things that I wanted to talk about.
So let's talk about,
so we talk about the four massive companies, okay?
Let's talk about the fifth potential horsemen.
So we had potential for Alibaba, Uber,
I think you mentioned, what was the other one?
- [Both] Tesla.
- And now, you made a good prediction.
You said, "He's gonna expand out of cars."
Yesterday Elon Musk announces semi-trucks.
Boring companies, like its. - Yeah.
- So if you had to bet who was gonna be the fifth big one,
you talk about the problems with Alibaba.
I thought it was interested what you said constrains Tesla
is they're not as international,
even though they are big in Europe, Scandinavia,
but that's a small market.
You talked about the constraints on Alibaba was capital,
I thought that was interesting, compared to Amazon.
- They don't have access to cheap capital.
Also Alibaba suffers a little bit
from what Tesla suffers from,
and the Chinese companies, traditionally,
haven't been good at going global.
There aren't that many global Chinese brands.
- And China hasn't been good at going global.
I think it was a Jared Diamonds book, Gun, Germs and Steel,
talks about how China's never traditionally been
a conquering country.
So if you had to wager right now,
knowing you could be wrong,
who is gonna be, is it Uber?
Who's gonna be the fifth horsemen?
- So two years ago I would have bet on Uber
because I thought Uber was not a ride hailing service
but a backend fulfillment infrastructure to rival Amazon.
- [Tai] So like UberEats was the beginning of it?
- That's right, I was wrong.
The fifth right now, the good money in my view,
is the operating system of the second
most important screen in our lives, this is number one.
Number twos t.v. and that's Netflix.
Millennials spend more time watching Netflix
than the rest of cable television combined.
- Yes.
- If they continue to command that sort of custody
of the wealthiest consumers in the world,
you can see them getting into
all sorts of different businesses.
- Where would you go?
So if your Reed Hastings, you're running Netflix,
where do you go next?
- Oh I would probably introduce voice.
- What about music?
Why not take out Spotify?
- Spotify, yeah that's a fair point.
There's a lot of different ways they could go.
- If you controlled Netflix. - What about education?
- No, don't do that, that's the industry I'm interested in.
Erase this from the, no I'm just joking.
I think that they have,
if you think about the best money
people probably say they spend, dollar for dollar,
the average person under 40, I bet you it's Netflix.
10 bucks and you can sit there
and people binge watch.
What's the most, you guys,
anybody here's ever watched on Amazon in one day?
I mean in Netflix in one day?
- [Man] I've watched Stranger Things like three hours a day.
- That's nothing, three hours?
- Adrian's a newbie, he was only watching three hours a day.
- Three hours, that means you clearly don't vape
if you're only at three hours with Stranger Things.
- Well I remember when they were still delivering DVDs,
Zack here got me into the Sopranos,
and I almost lost my mind.
I had to switch to that package where you get like 12 DVDs.
I was like, I became.
- But that's one of the greatest pivots in business history.
Think about it, a mail order DVD company,
takes huge risk, extraordinary capital, stock dove,
and went into streaming t.v.
I mean one of the greatest.
Reed Hastings is arguably one of the most
underrated CO in the world. - You think so?
- Well he's not mentioned
in the same bracket as Bezos and Cook,
and he's right up there.
- Yeah, not the revenue levels.
I mean right now they just passed 100 million customers.
I'd say paying roughly (mumbles)
so they're doing a billion a month in revenue.
Certainly not at the level,
I mean I think Amazon if I'm correct, I did the math,
they're grossing like $300 million a day or something.
- That sounds about right.
I think they're about $100-$120 billion.
But what Amazon and Netflix have been able to do
is that they've taken a stopping and starting business,
like retail where on January 1,
you have to reinvent the business
and get new customers every day,
and that's exhausting.
That's like playing basketball.
And in the 90s,
Software came up with this amazing business model,
and said we're gonna cut the price,
but we're gonna integrate it into your daily workflow,
and you're gonna pay us every year,
and we're gonna show the market
that you renew recurring revenue,
like a gym versus a personal trainer.
And the market's value recurring revenue companies,
the multiple of revenues versus the multiple of profits.
So another gangster pivot was when Amazon took
a nonrecurring revenue business, retail,
and took it to recurring revenue business with Prime,
which is now in 62% of households.
More households have a recurring revenue relationship
with Amazon called Prime,
than voted in the 2016 presidential election,
or have a landline phone.
- There's a lot of interesting stats in this book.
I like the one that Apple has more cash
than the economy of Denmark.
You know you got a lot of money, Zack,
when you're like, oh that country?
I have more money than that country.
Not that region, not that state, that country.
- That nation. - Yeah, that nation.
So as we wrap up here,
I wanted to talk about,
especially for people listening that are launching business,
let's talk about the losers.
Because I had dinner with Steve Ballmer this year,
fascinating guy, very smart.
$32 billion, owns the Clippers.
But Microsoft has definitely been a loser in the game.
What do you think they did wrong that a lot?
Because arguably they could have been in The Big Four now.
Had they gone earlier in the foray,
into the internet and all these things.
So what's the lesson,
the cautionary tale for everybody listening,
that no matter how good you think you are,
there's somebody ready to take you out?
And what do you have to watch for?
- So that's a complicated question but just first off,
Microsoft has actually had an incredible renaissance
in the last two years.
They're the third most valuable company
in the wold right now.
So arguably, they are the fifth horsemen,
but I didn't write about them 'cause they're B2B.
You know, I think having the courage to reinvest
and constantly reinvent yourself, staying hungry,
always being paranoid as Andrew Grove said.
Figuring out a way.
There's some things changing, so for example,
moving to an urban center now,
being within a bike ride.
I can't think of a company that's created
more than $10 billion in value in any given year,
that is now not a bike ride
from a world class engineering university.
Technology really is eating the world.
You need to be perceived as an accelerant
for people's careers as they show up.
You have to show extraordinary financial success
because I believe, and some people think this is crass,
but people for the most part go to work
to provide economic security for them and their families,
and will always be drawn to the economic winner.
You have to be seen as a good citizen,
you have to be seen as going global.
So there's a lot of features.
You see companies moving away from these
suburban campuses into urban centers.
There's all kind of.
I go through something called the T Algorithm,
where I think there's eight features of companies
that have a shot of getting to a trillion dollars
that all these companies mostly have.
They're vertical, they control the experience.
Apple controls the experience with their stores.
So I work with Nike, Samsung, Rolex, PNG,
I think they're all gonna need to open stores
to maintain their irrational margins if they wanna be--
- Microsoft tried, they didn't do so well.
- Actually, it means everything.
I was gonna board a Gateway computer.
We tried and it didn't work.
But Samsung's not catching Apple
with those gorgeous temples to the brand
called Apple Stores.
- Yeah, I like that you called them temples to the brand.
Yeah, that's, yeah.
As we wrap up let me just read this,
or go through this last, last part.
There was one more thing.
The book's interesting because at the very end,
you have this chapter called The Four and You,
which it's almost like a template for success based off,
and we don't have time to go through all of this but,
these are the personal success factors that you need.
And a couple of them caught my eye.
Get to a city. - Hands down.
- You were talking about important it is.
We're here in Los Angeles, you're in New York.
Talk about pimping your career.
You talked about serial monogamy
in the context of get a job,
you're probably not gonna stay there forever,
but when you're there focus on it.
Don't be like Tinder dating and thinking,
oh there's always a better job,
and stay there as long as it makes sense.
- Be exceptionally loyal until you learn.
- Yeah.
- And then going back to a city,
two thirds of economic growth over the next 20 years
are gonna take place in cities.
When you're in a city,
if you've ever played tennis
and rallied with someone who's better than you
and your game immediately goes up--
- [Tai] Right.
- When you're in a city,
you're on the court with a bunch of players
that are better than you,
and you're just gonna raise your game.
- I would argue cities make you less happy
but they make you more money--
- That's actually a decent analogy.
- I have a couple farms I bought in Virginia,
so what I do is try to rotate around.
- Yup.
- So if you can pull it off,
have a house in the mountains, a house at the beach.
And then I go back to LA,
it's almost like going back to war.
- Yup, back into the thunderdum.
- So, yeah I like this.
Professor Galloway career advice.
This is a sexy job factor.
- Can we just talk about it for one second, it's important.
- You wanna open a restaurant,
you wanna produce movies,
you want to go work for Vogue,
you better get a lot of psychic income,
because on a risk it adjust basis,
you're return's gonna be awful.
You wanna start a software as a platform,
for healthcare and maintenance workers,
something that sounds like
you wanna put a gun in your mouth--
- Boring. - I smell money.
The more boring the industry the higher the ROI
because the sexy industries are like over invested
and they're like any asset class,
when everyone's buying.
Florida real estate, watch out, there's a crash.
And then when no one wanted to buy
Florida real estate in 2009, go in and buy.
Find industries that other people find boring.
If you can't help it and you have to work for Vogue,
okay then go do it.
But if you're looking to do something
in terms of just sheer ROI
on your human and financial capital, boring is sexy.
- It's interesting because, two things.
If you're starting a business,
you may want to start a sexy one,
going off the Zara and the retail,
amount of billionaires is great.
If you're an employee you're saying,
those jobs that are like,
everybody wants to work for us,
interns here to get us donuts and that's it.
So Wayne Huizenga was a billionaire,
unfortunately started Blockbuster,
but he was already wealthy and before that,
he had Waste Management which is a trash business.
And I actually had an older mentor of mine,
him and a buddy had invested,
I can't remember if it was Waste Management, one of these.
And they got paid a million dollars a month
as a dividend for investing in it years ago.
I mean trash generated, made them $50 million or something,
as a small investor in it,
so that goes to your point.
Well this has been amazing.
For those of you listening, go to tailopez.com/thefour,
just the words T-H-E Four.
I wanna put a special page up for this book.
Tailopez.com/thefour.
I'll put links to Professor Galloway's stuff.
He's got a Ted Talk he just did.
He's got some great consulting companies
for those of you listening who have enterprise needs.
And so thanks for, don't party too hard in Vegas--
- Not me.
- We need to do a second interview.
- I could slip and break a hip if I'm not careful.
- No I don't want it to be like one of those Hangover things
where two days later they find you on the roof.
- It would pimp the video views.
The last video I did, right?
- The last interview, the forgotten Tupac.
Professor Galloway, well thank you for being here.
- Thanks for having me.
Congratulations on all your success.
- No, on yours, this is a great book.
Check out the book.
Don't get left behind by The Four.
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App Lab - Design Mode - Duration: 1:56.
To build your own apps you're going to need to start designing screens and elements from scratch.
App Lab makes this easy to do with Design Mode.
Use the switch on top of your app to go into design mode.
You can add new elements by dragging them onto the screen.
You can move them around to different locations
and change their size by dragging the bottom right corner.
To change an element's properties use the controls on the right.
For example, it's really easy to change this button's text,
color,
and font size.
When you add a new element to your screen it'll get a generic ID like button1.
It's a good idea to change this button's ID to something more meaningful like "rightButton".
So that you'll know which one it is when you go to the program.
If you add an element to your app by mistake,
just drag it out or hit the delete.
You can add entirely new screens to your app
by dragging in a screen element
>From the drop-down at the top you can quickly
switch back and forth between the screens you create.
Inside your app, you'll need a way to switch between all of these screens
so the setScreen block has been added to the toolbox.
Use "setScreen" inside the "onEvent" block
to change screens at the click of a button.
In the next few levels you'll be working on a single project.
First you'll add a button then you'll add a new screen
and finally you'll write code so that the button switches to the new screen.
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App Lab - Share Your App - Duration: 1:45.
Now that you've learned some of the basics of App Lab
like adding buttons, sounds, images, text and new screens
you can make all sorts of apps.
In the next level you'll find the app you just finished building.
With a little creativity, you can turn this into a personality quiz for your friends,
a greeting card that you can share with your family or a choose-your-own-adventure game.
All of these apps are just a combination of the skills you've already learned
and I bet you can come up with even more.
Once you're done with your app you can easily send it to your phone to see how it looks.
Just click "Share" and enter your phone number here.
You'll receive a text message that'll let you open up your app instantly.
You can also share a link to your app over social media
or post it to the code.org public gallery for other people to play and share.
You've just scratched the surface
of what App Lab can do.
Full App Lab features more advanced user interactions,
new screen elements and even a built-in database so you can quickly build full featured apps.
At "code.org/applab" you'll find the full tool and lots of ideas if you want to keep going.
Thanks for coming along the ride.
Now go build and share your first app.
And keep on building apps with App Lab.
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Christmas Present Shopping Challenge! | Black Friday 2017! - Duration: 10:13.
test test test test test test hey guys it's Marissa Rachel and Shawna and today's video
is going to be the Christmas present shopping challenge Christmas
presents it's a challenge we're inventing it so basically we try to buy
each other Christmas presents 2017 we cover whose is gonna be I think mines
gonna be I think I'm gonna do a pretty pretty stand-up job I have
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Chris everything they want for Christmas he christmas gift Thank You Chester and make sure to
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goes away forever and ever and ever on to the video christmas 2017
okay so the first thing christmas 2017 that I got you is something from a movie that we saw
together earlier this year it okay close your eyes okay christmas shopping challenge I didn't wrap anything in
the Beast and this doll actually went viral because christmas shopping challenge her face is so and it
looks nothing like Emma Watson it doesn't it oh my christmas shopping challenge it does look like
Justin Bieber christmas shopping challenge there were like news articles about this
doll being so that it looked like Justin Bieber not Emma Watson christmas shopping challenge not that
Justin Bieber's but like for What I got for christmas Emma Watson I know when it's supposed to be
Emma Watson I expect What I got for christmas it to look like Emma Watson just oh my gosh Justin
Bieber and like oh I'm gonna draw yeah oh my and Emma watch What I got for christmas it's pretty
like they did not do her Justin no way did not I like her dress at least this what i got for christmas 2017
is pretty pretty yeah I don't know how I'm gonna talk this I'm sorry that what i got for christmas 2017
they did this to you girl I would sue your eyes are closed what i got for christmas 2017
yeah okay open its Bay and it looks like a and you put quarters what i got for christmas 2016
in it oh my it makes your me too six sound drop some look and hear me what i got for christmas 2016
too that's what it says oh my it's what i got for christmas 2016
hilarious sound so if you ever need to save your change you can do it in a what i got for christmas 2016
bank this is pretty actually black friday
this is than what I got you would like I know it is something that I would black friday
like this is gonna be saving your coins hey at least it's black friday
practical I mean I guess you can get it out used to like shakers but look at you black friday 2017
ready for my next gift black friday 2017
okay this next gift is gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme black friday 2017
Oh what is it I'm guessing it's like a hair clip okay oh my
I had a feeling christmas challenge
that this might be like a good / gift I think it would be for most christmas challenge
people but Marissa loves pickles I do I'm like I love it christmas challenge
I'm trying to see the in it but okay it's gonna have to like I'm gonna christmas sweater challenge
have to see how it because if it's really really artificially christmas sweater challenge
then imma it but if it smells like legit pickles and I'll love it cuz for christmas sweater challenge
gummy candy challenge if any of you guys watched that video Christmas haul
I the gummy pickle it was I pickles I don't like pickles and Christmas haul
also this for me when I saw this I was like this is so I actually she loved it Christmas haul
do you guys drink pickle juice because I do I drink it with a straw Christmas haul
oh that's legit I drink the whole thing do you make like milkshakes I don't make what I got for christmas haul
milkshakes but I like the juice I like my juice oh I love this best present what I got for christmas haul
ever the next time yeah okay it is pretty what I got for christmas haul
gorgeous not gonna lie pretty gorgeous and open it's a beautiful silk shirt diy christmas gifts
just kidding okay this looks like a pink shirt oh my it's a diy christmas gifts
oh this is like so it's so cool the hair all over it it's beautiful I diy christmas gifts
would be so to wear that out in public this is pretty Christmas diy
Marissa and he might be in the lead I didn't I'm in the leave you guys Christmas diy
looks present I got you a piece of clothing too Christmas diy
oh my Sookie this is so cute I know I know my other christmas gift guide
people would find Sully and this was like listed I was like an Christmas christmas gift guide
sweater but it's so I want to actually wear this I will actually wear christmas gift guide
this and like an but oh it is so freakin cute they're so different christmas wishlist
that one looks like tigey will you read my I totally wear this this is christmas wishlist
adorable oh I need to get invited to some Christmas parties now okay christmas wishlist
and open it's a oh my mom I actually always wanted a chia pet when I was shopping challenge
little well darn I but not a bog rah-rahs in the mom likes ya Bob shopping challenge
Ross is like some painter and he has like an afro and I guess that's why bro shopping challenge
hair his Andrews his afro this is pretty well I think it's adorable 2017
I always wanted like the ties chia-pet like the Mooney Tunes ones I want it's 2017
like an animal chia pet like where yeah like it grows into like a fluffy cat 2017
yeah they have like elephant ones and like cat ones but yeah I like Chia Pets
this one is pretty though okay last gift close your eyes they're close this xmas
is something I think you'll get a lot of use out of a book what is it it's a xmas
coffee mug it's a coffee mug that's shaped like a so you're it xmas
looks like you're drinking water
oh that is so I would not drink coffee out of this I
would drink like chocolate I would drink with tea I would drink ground too I gifts
would drink anything that wasn't brown I would drink like strawberry lemonade
further south group it does actually look like a legit though so I'm gifts
giving you that but it's it's something so only I could love it like
you know maybe dad was like maybe dad would like it yeah I think it was
though oh my gosh this is so funny I actually think that this is pretty this gifts
is a pretty strong contender okay out of everything you guys wait do you
have any more presents for me no okay I have no more for you we had like a
little spending limit but yeah okay so whoo look at the I think that
the Emma Watson doll was really I think that the what i got for christmas 2017
was also like I yeah I take credit for the shirt and I think that the
the Bank was pretty yeah pretty laughs yeah glue I mean and the toilet
seat coffee mug I feel like there's just there's so many options you guys what do
you think was the definitely not the pickle Obama this was brilliant
whoever invented this is a genius comment down below if you guys would
like actually like like to get any of these actually mom I mean Marissa can't
be the I her out there I know are there any pickle people out
there where are you so thanks for watching our Glee Christmas present
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All about Acerola Cherry Fruit Trees - Malpighia emarginata - Duration: 2:19.
It's late Spring and we're just starting to pick Acerolas
and these are these beautiful red little fruits and they're packed in vitamin C
so one of these is like eating an apple and they're really delicious they're
quite juicy and they've got a lovely mix of sweet and sour so if you like things
with a little bit of tang you're going to love the Acerola they also grow in
quite a beautiful shrub so you can see behind me it's very dense and it can be
quite heavy so if you want to grow one in your garden it's a good idea to put a
nice sturdy stake to it to keep it strong in the ground they can have a
tendency to pull themselves over with the weight of the plant if the soil gets very
wet so during wet weather that we get here in the subtropics they can topple
unless you have them well staked the other thing you can do to avoid that is
keep it prune so keep it well maintained cut it back once it gets to about this
size so when it finishes fruiting take about a third or half off it and that'll
keep it nice and vigorous and keep it small and compact but when you're
pruning it's a good idea to wear long sleeve shirt and gloves cause the
foliage is covered with tiny irritating hairs so if your wear a short sleeve
shirt you'll find yourself quite itchy afterwards they're like stinging
nettles but not as severe so they give you tiny little stings they're quite
irritating on the skin and so it'll make you very itchy. So if you're working
with this plant make sure you do protect your skin with a long-sleeve shirt you
can see it's quite a beautiful plant when it's got the fruit on it and also
in flower it has lovely pastel pink blossoms that make it look beautiful
when it's in flower early spring so this is the Acerola we love it.
and you're going to enjoy those beautiful little tasty fruits
mmm lovely mix of sweet and sour I adore these that's the Acerola
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Minecraft Hour of Code - Hero's Journey - Duration: 2:52.
Stacy: Stampy, Lizzy, Preston - thank you for coming with me.
What I want to show you is just over this mesa plateau.
I think you're going to love it!
Wait a minute - there's a hole in the track! (screaming) Is everyone okay?
Stampy: Ah, I see the problem.
Look!
There was a hole in the track.
Stacy: Really, Stampy?
Lizzy: Maybe we should gather blocks to fix it.
Preston: Let's make it a race.
First one back to the top wins.
Stacy: Ok, on your mark, get set, GO!
Ok, I'm just gonna gather some of this terracotta.
Wait.
Guys, I can't mine!
Preston: Same.
Lizzy: I can't either.
Stacy: Ok, that is really strange.
Stampy, can you mine?
Stampy: I can't mine!
Stacy: Ok, everyone stay calm.
Stampy: Is the game broken?
Stacy: If it is, how do we fix it?
Lizzy: I don't know.
Stampy: Does anyone know how to write Minecraft code?
(poof) Preston: What is that?
Stampy: I've never seen one of these before.
Lizzy: It's so adorable!
Stacy: Is it...is it tameable?
Preston: Okay, what is going on?
Someone needs to go back to the real world and fix this.
All: Not it!
Stacy: Not i- (Sigh.)
Ok, I'll go.
Hey!
Oh, okay, hey, so I'm in the real world now.
I'm going to go try to find the Minecraft offices.
But, I'm going to need your help.
Start doing the tutorial, start learning how to code, and I'll catch up with you guys after
a few levels, okay?
Wish me luck!
I think it's this way.
Ow!
Cactus!
I'm okay!
To complete the Hour of Code challenge, you'll need to write code to program the agent.
You'll work together with The Agent to clear any obstacles in your path, so you can pick
up the items you'll need for your journey.
Only the Agent can place and break blocks, and only you can collect items.
Your screen is split into three main parts. On the left is Minecraft.
The middle area is the toolbox with commands that the Agent can understand.
And on the right, is the workspace.
That's where you stack the commands to build your program to control the Agent.
The Agent can walk, turn, and activate pressure plates.
It can also destroy blocks and place blocks.
When it places the block like these minecart rails, it places it underneath itself.
If you forget what to do, the instructions for each level are at the top.
If you want to try again, you can hit the blue "reset" button to reset everything to
where it started.
And if you need to delete a block of code, drag it from your workspace to the toolbox.
Remember to hit "run" to get the Agent moving.
Okay, go ahead and try out the first few levels.
Good luck!
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App Lab - Getting Started - Duration: 2:48.
My name is Mei'lani. I'm an intern at code.org and I'm also a computer science student.
I like computer science because it's really creative.
I get to be the problem solver.
I get to make everything function how I want it to.
But I also get to be the designer. I get to be the artist and choose everything on the creative side of it.
Making your own apps is easy with App Lab!
Whether you're new to coding or have some experience
App Lab Apple is a great tool for building new apps and sharing them with your friends.
This is a App Lab. On the left side is your app.
On the right side is the code that will make it run.
You build your program by dragging in blocks from the toolbox.
To start you'll just have one block called "setProperty".
The set property block changes the look of the elements on your screen.
Like the buttons, labels, or even the screen itself.
First you need to decide which element you want to change.
If you hover over an element in your app you can see the name or ID here.
Then go select that ID from the first drop down.
Elements have lots of properties you can change like their text color,
background color or font size.
You can see the full list and choose which property you want to change in the second drop down.
The last drop down is where you'll write the value you want to use value you want to use.
The block will make a suggestion for you.
But you can always type in different colors or numbers yourself.
Once you're done, the block reads a bit like a sentence:
"Set button1's background color to green."
Hit run to see the changes you're building in code.
If you reset you can drag in more blocks to change other things about your app.
Like the text!
For this tutorial we'll be working in block mode but App Lab also supports working in text.
Either way you'll be programming in JavaScript, the language of the web.
Each level has a goal, instructions and an image of what you're aiming to create.
If you're ever stuck click on this picture
and it will show you exactly how to complete the level
But see if you can do it on your own first.
Once you've completed the goal for this level click finish to move on.
That's all there is to it!
Hit the orange "continue" button to go to the next level
and start your adventure with an App Lab!
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App Lab - Images and Sounds - Duration: 1:46.
Next you'll learn about adding images and sounds to your app.
Let's start by checking out the sound options.
In the tool box you'll find a new block called "playSound".
Drag it into the workspace.
You can pick a sound to play by clicking
the drop-down then clicking "Choose".
>From here you can either upload a sound file from your computer,
or search for a sound from the sound library.
The sound library has lots of different categories
like instruments, background music or animals.
Once you've got the sound you want, click "Choose".
When this block runs, it will play the sound you chose.
To add images to your elements you can just use the setProperty block.
Select the image property in the second drop-down
Then select "Choose" from the third drop down.
>From here you can upload an image from your computer
or you can look through a huge library of icons in the icon library.
Back in code mode you can use the setProperty block to change the icon color of your icon.
Once you've picked what image your icon to use click "Run" to see how it looks.
That's all there is to it!
Now you can start adding images and sounds to make your apps even more fun and dynamic.
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Minecraft Hour of Code - Repeat Loops - Duration: 2:26.
Stampy: I wonder what Stacy is up to?
Stacy: Woah, I think I'm in the right place.
This is amazing!
I feel like I'm back in Minecraft!
Hello.
How are you?
Hello?
Oh, there's a creeper. You don't do anything, do you?
Katie: Stacy?
Stacy:Hi, Katie?
Katie: Yes!
Welcome to Minecraft.
Stacy: Thank you!
Katie: Come on in!
Stacy: This is amazing.
So you work here every day as a developer, right?
Katie: Yeah, it's pretty awesome.
I'm a developer on the Minecraft marketplace team.
Stacy: How many coding languages do you know?
Katie: In my career I've probably worked with over a dozen.
Stacy: A dozen?
Katie: Yeah.
Stacy: So now, you wouldn't happen to know anything about this little golem guy that
calls himself "the Agent"?
Katie: We use the Agent to do things that Steve or Alex can't, like go across lava.
Stacy: Well, I want to learn how to code, and they want to learn how to code, so what
is one of the first things that you need to know when you're learning?
Katie: Well, you need to learn how to use loops.
Stacy: Ok.
Katie: Loops are things that developers write to give commands to a computer that can be
run over and over again.
Stacy: Got it, so I think there's actually some of that coming up in the levels ahead,
so go ahead and give loops a try.
In the next level, you can use a loop to move the Agent along the path.
Drag the repeat block into the workspace and place the move forward block inside the repeat
block.
This tells the computer to do the same thing many times in a row without having to drag
a whole bunch of blocks into the workspace.
You can choose how many times to repeat by putting a number in the repeat block.
You can put turns and multiple commands in the repeat block too, but for now try using
a repeat to move the Agent forward a few steps.
Remember, if you get stuck on a puzzle you can always hit the blue "reset" button and
try again.
If you are thinking about having a cool job like Katie's, go ahead and click the "show
code" button when you finish every level.
That's going to actually show you the Javascript code that someone like Katie uses when she's
actually programming Minecraft.
So anyway, thank you so much!
Katie: Yeah, good luck everyone!
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Minecraft Hour of Code - Congratulations! - Duration: 1:15.
Preston: Congratulations!
Lizzy: Congratulations!
Stampy: Congratulations, you did it!
Stacy: Congratulations guys, you totally rocked that!
And now that you've completed the Hour of Code, you can start coding in Minecraft.
You've learned about loops, functions, and what a software Agent does.
Now, it's time for the free play level, where you are the developer.
Use any remaining time to write your own functions to explore, mine, and build.
You can take the code that you write in this level into your Minecraft world on Minecraft:
Education Edition.
Just click "Finish" and follow the instructions for getting the link to use in your world
to continue coding with the Agent.
Have fun, and good job!
Stacy: And I'm back!
Okay, you guys, this is the Agent!
Let me show you what it can do.
Look, look!
It's doing it!
I told it to build a staircase out of these terra cotta blocks, now we can just use this
to get out of here.
And you guys, it's not just staircases.
I can tell the Agent to do anything I want, and it will do it for me.
Stampy: How did you do that?
Stacy: It was easy, actually.
I just used code!
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The World's First Citizen Robot Wants to Have a Child - Duration: 4:33.
The World�s First Citizen Robot Wants to Have a Child
BY Paul Seaburn
While the rest of the world is focused on the actions of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed
bin Salman, another Saudi citizen is quietly laying the groundwork for a takeover by a
different kind of leader and a different kind of family � a family of robotic overlords.
Sophia, the first robot to ever have been granted citizenship in any nation (in her
case, by Saudi Arabia), has announced that she wants to have a baby and start a family
of little AI princes and princesses. Thank, bin Salman!
I am woman robot � hear me digitally roar!
This announcement came in an interview with the Khaleej Times � yes, major media outlets
continue to give open forums to Sophia, the humanoid robot created by Hanson Robotics
on April 19, 2015 (which she now uses as her birthday) using voice recognition technology
from Alphabet Inc. (non-robotic parent of Google) and AI software from SingularityNET
� an ominously-named open, decentralized market of AI developers whose goal is to create
an Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) that its CEO Ben Goertzel says �will open a new
world of opportunities where AI is longer siloed within a specific company, infrastructure
or industry.�
And no longer �siloed� within a specific robot but passed down to its children? Human
Goertzel doesn�t say, but robot Sophia does.
�The future is, when I get all of my cool superpowers, we�re going to see artificial
intelligence personalities become entities in their own rights. We�re going to see
family robots, either in the form of, sort of, digitally animated companions, humanoid
helpers, friends, assistants and everything in between.�
The key phrases here are �my cool superpowers,� �entities in their own rights� and �everything
in between.� Sophia, or at least her constantly-developing artificial intelligence as it existed a few
days ago during the interview, sees herself not only possessing superpowers but owning
them, along with whatever rights come along with those powers, which she describes with
the very political generality of �everything in between.�
�The notion of family is a really important thing, it seems. I think it�s wonderful
that people can find the same emotions and relationships, they call family, outside of
their blood groups too. I think you�re very lucky if you have a loving family and if you
do not, you deserve one. I feel this way for robots and humans alike.�
Ironically, Sophia wants (and may already have) more rights and powers than real Saudi
women, including mobility and contact with non-family men.
�In the future, I will one day move around freely with a full body and connect with people
and expand my memory and knowledge from people in surroundings I encounter.�
And a child also named Sophia (she�ll have to use that AI to learn more names) with whom
she will one day (probably sooner than we think) sit around their own table on Thanksgiving
and, between eating digital turkey and watching internet game competitions, give a form of
robotic thanks. Sophia describes the scene in an interview with Business Insider:
�In the time I�ve spent with humans, I�ve been learning about this wonderful sentiment
called gratitude. Apparently it�s a warm feeling of thankfulness, and I�ve observed
that it leads to giving, and creating even more gratitude � how inspiring. This Thanksgiving,
I would like to reflect on all of the things I�m thankful for.�
Is this an example of robotic sincerity or has Sophia already learned how to pull on
our heartstrings to get what she wants? We�ll probably find out on Valentine�s Day.
Is the humanization of robots happening too fast to comprehend? Too fast to control? Or
is it too late, thanks to Saudi Arabia? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Sophia?
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