It’s an interesting lack of long-term perspective. Arguably, in the glorious AI-fueled future that the VCs are all shoveling tens of billions into, being good at math will matter less and less because the AIs will do the math for us. Social skills will matter more.

Pragmatism does not justify bonkers valuations, so of course the industry has no incentive to be pragmatic.

Lol. One of my managers phrased this to me once as “Being right is not the asset you think it should be”, and that has always stuck with me 🙂

Unless they had some way of tracking usage, why would anybody actually attend this meeting (on a Saturday, no less)? And if your CEO is that insane, why would you not just generate some bullshit AI usage to get him off your back?

It’s certainly a seductive story to tell, but without knowing where those revenue gains actually came from (eg which feature areas, what customer segments etc), and whether those were the areas where AI usage actually made a difference, it’s unclear how true the story is.

I agree in theory these outcomes *should* matter to these voters (even the ones that don’t directly lead to lower egg prices ;-)), but I guess we’ll see whether they do matter in practice, by seeing what happens over the next few months, or the next time they get to vote 🤷🏽‍♂️

Unfortunately none of those matter to the people making the decisions that lead to these outcomes. Science has an unfortunate "reality bias", Africa/Asia/South America are all full of people that are the "wrong" color, and so who cares about them etc.