Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
· Ben Horowitz, Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Well, it's really a 2008 Hyundai that's green, but we pull a guy over in a 2004 Hyundai that's blue. That person has had bad experiences with the police. Now, he's got a gun in the car, and all of a sudden we've got an incident, and an innocent citizen gets harmed or police gets shot. With an AI camera, we know that's the car. That's it. And we know there's a baby in the car, so we're not sending one guy with a gun to see if that's the guy. We're sending a whole squad, and we're apprehending them safely. Policing is inherently dangerous, but intelligence makes it dramatically safer. And so I'm a huge believer in this technology for making everybody safer. Suspects, criminals, citizens, police, everybody. The other knock-on effect is it's put the pride back into policing. We used to have a big problem in Vegas where, because nobody wanted to be a police officer, we were lowering the standard. But now the standard is really high. So between the drone center, which is like super state-of-the-art, and then you have these Cybertrucks that look so amazingly futuristic and cool driving around, everybody wants to be police now. Las Vegas happens to have the highest concentration of veterans in the country. Plenty of super qualified people to choose from. They all want to be police. That's all gone well. [00:00:00] S0: The last question I ask everyone is the same. What is the kindest thing that anyone's ever done for you?
· Patrick O'Shaughnessy, Ben Horowitz
[00:00:00] S0: The last question I ask everyone is the same. What is the kindest thing that anyone's ever done for you? [00:00:00] S1: There's a mentor of mine, a fellow by the name of Ken Coleman, who was a big executive at Silicon Graphics. And when I was a sophomore in college, I got an introduction to him, and he gave me a job as a summer intern. Without that job, I don't know that I ever get to Silicon Valley. That was the highest impact. He didn't have to do that thing that he did for me. [00:00:00] S0: It may interest you that that is the most common form of answer across 500 of these, someone that like took a bet when they didn't need to. Ben, pleasure to finally do this with you after a couple years of watching you and learning from you. So thank you so much for your time. [00:00:00] S1: Thank you, Patrick, it was fun.