Brad Jacobs: Building a Business Empire [The Knowledge Project Ep. #190]

Shane Parrish: Ray Kurzweil, who wrote The Singularity, is one of your heroes, and you recently met him. I’m curious what you took away from that conversation and what it was like.

Brad Jacobs: Well, I did recently meet him, and it was like meeting Albert Einstein or meeting Michelangelo. He’s looking at the history of the universe going back 13-point-something billion years and how we got here and then looking at trends. He identifies the most important trend of all, which is that Homo sapiens have created technology, created tools, starting with stone pebbles over a couple million years ago, and then fire and then settlements, and over the last couple hundred years, so much more, and in the last 20 years, accelerating. And now with AI, it’s accelerating even more.