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Your gross margin problem is my revenue opportunity for my Colossus cluster. Pessimist sound smart, optimist die rich. Only a fool denies that Elon Musk is wildly effective. I would much rather initially work for Elon than for Zuck. I think it'll be like the scale acquisition. I don't even think this product will exist in five years. You can't add expenses below the line fast enough to stop yourself making money. The only thing that matters will be the growth rate and the twenty seven and twenty eight projected revenue. Someone who was hired with a million dollar package in twenty three ended up making fifty one million four years later. A billion knowledge workers in the world, absolute bollocks. I think we'll give each of our best engineers a hundred thousand dollars of tokens. I had two board meetings in the last week where they finish the roadmap for the year. They're into twenty twenty seven. If you're not into your twenty twenty seven roadmap, deep into it by August of twenty twenty six in the agentic world, your team is not good enough to survive.

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