![]() ![]() And I think that that just goes against the sense that we have in this country that people should have equal opportunity. And basically some of the research that he’s done shows that the zip code in which you were born and raised is highly correlated with your future mobility and what your income is going to be. And one of the people I think has done the most interesting research on this is this guy, Raj Chetty, I think he’s at Harvard now. One of the big issues today in society is inequality. I also think it is really important for economic opportunity. I think that that’s probably quite compelling and positive. Not just in the sense that a version of me growing up today wouldn’t be stuck playing Little League, that I’d get to find people who are interested in the same things, so I could explore coding and have a much more vibrant community around that, or surfing, or whatever the thing is that you’re interested in. The Traeger story is fascinating: the company was around for 27 years and not growing very much when Jeremy bought it with the help of a private equity firm and became the CEO. I think one of the things that is most magical about the present, and that I think is going to get even more so, is that flattening out distance creates a lot more opportunities for people. And in VR, people can pull up as many screens as they want so you can share as much context as you want during a meeting. She is an experienced entrepreneur who has built two successful companies. So it’s no more of this, “Oh, I can only share one document at a time,” because everyone, you presume, only has one screen. A: QA Revathi is the CEO and founder of Flexpatel and TheVerge. ![]() You can project and different people can share as many documents as they want. You look over to the head of the table and there could be a screen there, where people who can’t be in VR or AR can videoconference in and be a part of your meeting from outside. If you’re sitting in a circle, everyone can kind of remember what order people were in. So if someone is sitting to your right, you’re sitting to their left. Even though the avatars aren’t as realistic today as they will be in a few years, in a lot of ways it already feels almost more real, and more like you have a sense of space, than a Zoom call, because you have the shared sense of space. Vimeo was always YouTubes weird, flailing, artsy cousin until a thirty-something CEO stepped in and figured out how to make it a cash cow. ![]() And I already do a bunch of meetings in VR. The other area that I think is going to be pretty exciting is basically doing meetings. ![]()
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