#166: Mike Maples Jr. – Why The Robots Are Not Going To Eat Your Job
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Podcast Notes Key Takeaways “Ruling institutions often go from being service providers to rent-seekers”– Mike Maples Jr.The ability to exit is what gives your voice its powerBitcoin provides you an exit opportunity from the centralized financial systemCovid has digitally separated work from location, creating exit power over local governmentsGovernments are being forced to treat us more like customers again rather than assets because more options emerge from the decentralization of products/servicesCategory Design: Trying to be the better choice isn’t credible, being different is believable“I’m not the best, I’m the only. You want to force a choice and not a comparison.” – Mike Maples Jr.Scalable start-ups that design new product categories are the way to defeat your susceptibility to inflationContributing towards existing institutional product categories only creates further dilution of the dollar down the corporate production line – feeding the machine per seThe phrase ‘the robots are going to eat your job’ is political speak to uphold industrial-era social contracts that maintain organizational powerDon’t subordinate your creativity as a trade-off for organizational hierarchySoftware gives people the ability to create a scalable business and participate in a more net positive, competitive, and decentralized business ecosystemCompetition drives innovation, the ‘robots’ are going to create more opportunity for the entrepreneur“The future doesn’t happen to us, it happens because of us” – Mike Maples Jr.
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Mike Maples Jr. is the co-founder of Floodgate (early investor in Twitter, Twitch, and Lyft) and the host of the Starting Greatness Podcast.
In this conversation, we spoke about surviving how an entrepreneur survives near-death experiences, the balance of centralization vs. decentralization, why you should seek to join a breakthrough company, and how to manage your own psychology.
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