In AI age there will be unlimited entrepreneurial opportunity; the 'only AI' displacement narrative is wrong.

In AI age there will be unlimited entrepreneurial opportunity; the 'only AI' displacement narrative is wrong. | I think that in uh you know an AI or an AI age um society like for the people with initiative I I just think there's going to continue to be unlimited opportunity to even like set up a a an army of AI agents to go work for you um and do useful things and we'll have lots of consumers and um you know like I I think that the idea that like we're going to out of ideas um and only the big AI is going to do everything. I I just I I disagree with that kind of

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I think that in uh you know an AI or an AI age um society like for the people with initiative I I just think there's going to continue to be unlimited opportunity to even like set up a a an army of AI agents to go work for you um and do useful things and we'll have lots of consumers and um you know like I I think that the idea that like we're going to out of ideas um and only the big AI is going to do everything. I I just I I disagree with that kind of

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