Podbit · The a16z Show
In digital AI, workers fear displacement. In physical AI, operators in mining, agriculture, and trucking will give you everything to solve their labor problem. There are not enough miners, truck drivers, or farmers — and nobody wants those jobs anyway.
Automation pushes prices down, and robots don't have bank accounts. That surplus flows back to humans, who spend it on new things — creating entirely new job categories that don't exist today. Kalanick is firmly in the pro-abundance camp: as long as humans can do things robots can't, it's go-go time.
Jacqui Losco is a self-described introvert who finds networking her worst nightmare. On camera she can follow a script, but unscripted socialising — even getting past small talk — is a genuine struggle she has never fully solved.
Jacqui's philosophy on internet trolls is simple: don't read the comments. 'Ignorance is bliss' is her personal motto, and she argues that most negative commentary says more about the commenter than the subject.
Before television, Jacqui worked as an air hostess and loved the human connection it offered. But she also speaks candidly about what it takes to show up professionally when you are personally having the worst day of your life.
Being a public figure in a small island means every critic is potentially someone you know. Jacqui unpacks why online negativity hits differently in Malta's tight-knit media landscape — and why choosing not to read the comments is an act of self-preservation.
Jacqui's relationship with her mother is warm but shaped by a visible generational gap. Her mother's 1980s parenting style — strict, disciplined, culturally traditional — contrasts with how Jacqui sees herself approaching parenthood, and the conversation reveals the unspoken love underneath the difference.
Jacqui speaks warmly about her husband Sam and the excitement of building a family. She shares that Sam is genuinely enthusiastic about children and family life, and hints at her own hopes for what the next chapter looks like.
Mark hands Sam an angle grinder and lets him cut through a wall on a live Brooklyn construction site. Sam holds on for his life, the workers watch nervously, and Mark declares him hired. Peak blue-collar tourism.
Ashlyn is 20, debt-free, has $10,000 saved, earns $65K/year, and feels behind. The median homebuyer is 40. She has a positive net worth. Comparing yourself to older siblings is not a financial strategy — it's a trap.
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