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What Have Marriage and Fatherhood Taught Fred? What Has He Changed His Mind On?
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Harry's quickfire round opens with the question of what Fred has changed his mind on most in the last twelve months. His answer is striking: a year ago he would have said there are workflows current models simply cannot handle. Today he believes every single back-office flow at Curative is within reach of today's models — it's purely a matter of deployment, configuration, and policy-setting. On Europe's competitiveness problem, Fred proposes something almost politically toxic on the continent: regulations should come with a tax penalty. Every new regulation passed should impose an additional burden on the country, creating a real cost for adding rules without reforming existing ones. The incentive to regulate addictively needs a counterweight. Fred's final reflection on the best advice he has received is a lesson from COVID-era Curative: the more radically different perspectives you can gather on a problem — former military logistics experts, Silicon Valley developers, research scientists — the closer to ground truth you can get. No single perspective is the truth; the truth lives in the synthesis. Harry signs off with genuine enthusiasm, calling it the most wide-ranging conversation he has ever done on 20VC, followed by a second full sponsor read for AlphaSense, MongoDB, and Framer to close the episode.
Each Subcritical nuclear deployment is expected to cost approximately $1 billion in construction for a 300-megawatt facility, financed through a mix of equity and infrastructure debt.
