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0:00–0:19 — Alicia McKenzie / In-Person: Welcome to another episode of Married to the Startup. And we are turning a new page because the way we were doing the podcast previously was too much work and I don't want to do it anymore. Hmm. And this is my co-host. Quite the intro there. All right. Yeah. That's me, co-host.
0:18–0:34 — Alicia McKenzie / In-Person: The new rendition of this podcast is going to be I show up exactly how I am from wherever I'm coming from. I don't care if I'm camera ready. I've never cared if I was camera ready. So not a lot of improvement on my part.
0:35–1:04 — Alicia McKenzie / In-Person: And we are going to be doing the editing ourselves because Well, I correction. I think we are gonna do our best to have AI always do the editing. And then we can evolve as the AI evolves. So you as podcast consumers can see the production quality of AI. Like I feel part of our journey in this podcast is also reflective of the journey of many entrepreneurs and the fact that
1:03–1:31 — Alicia McKenzie / In-Person: We're gonna leverage AI to the fullest and start to show behind the scenes of what AI is capable of. And, ~ ~ I think our ethos will be not spending money on AI to try to use frontier models that we've already paid subscriptions for or open source ~ software solutions to to allow AI to do the work for us. So when it comes to you
1:30–1:33 — Alicia McKenzie / In-Person: know, social media posting. / Yeah, social media posting,
1:32–1:58 — Alicia McKenzie / In-Person: LinkedIn posting, video editing, trying to schedule guests, managing our CRM, all gonna be AI. Yes. And we first started this podcast in twenty twenty four. Sure. I think twenty twenty four is the right date. Maybe. Has it been that long? I don't know, babe. Yeah, it was it was yeah, it was twenty twenty four. It was twenty twenty four and the
1:58–2:26 — Alicia McKenzie / In-Person: Evolution of the tools that we were using back then are it's drastic. So I think that we are actually going to be able to produce this podcast and save money and still have fun and save time and bring our hot takes and our case studies and all the whatever you have it. And I'm recovering from a cold. So if I sound like I smoke a pack a day, I don't.
2:25–2:53 — Alicia McKenzie / In-Person: So long. So long and short, similar content, just changing the delivery mechanism. Yes. And stripping it back to a minimum viable product that we can produce with minimal costs. And time. Time costs, yeah. Yes. That was the biggest concern is how much time it ate in editing and well that production.
2:53–3:19 — Alicia McKenzie / In-Person: Handing this podcast off to somebody who doesn't know us and know our brand and it was coming back and the social media that it was being that was being produced just didn't feel like it fit with it was trying too hard. It was trying way too hard. And it just like it wasn't landing right with me or with social media and it just felt like a waste of time and money.
3:18–3:30 — Alicia McKenzie / In-Person: So we took a step back and really evaluated A whether or not we wanted to continue doing this, which we do, and B, can we do this easier, better, quicker, faster, stronger?
3:29–3:59 — Alicia McKenzie / In-Person: And the answer is yes. Yes. I think that's also a song. T B D. T B D, yeah, we'll see. She'll be determined. But that's part of the fun is that, you know, we'll s we can, you know, talk about the AI software that we're using. Maybe our listeners have recommendations, but you can see along the journey with us of how the technology is improving. Yeah. Is the AI getting better at learning how to edit and learning our conversation and how, you know
3:58–4:19 — Alicia McKenzie / In-Person: keywords are repetitive and stripping them out and trying to find ways in which to mesh the three different videos together to align sound and imagery. And a lot of that maybe it's herky jerky in the beginning or maybe it's not great. And, you know, who knows? We'll see how it goes from, you know, what it is today to what it'll be in six months. Speaking of AI.
4:18–4:48 — Alicia McKenzie / In-Person: Yes. NVIDIA. Yeah, that's a great one. That's a whole topic. I don't think we can fit that in the next four minutes. We can't. We can't. But Taylor's oldest time. Come on, right? Really? Taylor's oldest time. Leathercoat guy. Did you really think that she was with you for your charm and your good looks? I but or was she with you for the trade secrets that you were giving her after your sessions? But I think, you know.
4:48–5:17 — Alicia McKenzie / In-Person: I'm sure he was under the impression, most likely, that she was with him for the money. He's one of the richest men in the world. Worth hundreds of billions. And she just so happened to be Chinese? Well, ~ ~ that's that's that's something that not everyone thinks about of hey, could this be an espionage? Could this be a spy? I don't think everyone thinks that way, especially people that aren't that don't live
5:17–5:47 — Alicia McKenzie / In-Person: With a clearance. Right? They don't have to file paperwork every time they leave the country, which says, Have you met a foreign national? Do you talk to a foreign national? Do you have communications with a foreign national? ~ all those questions that we deal with. I'm sorry. Stevie Wonder could see that that was a Chinese spy. You don't know that. my gosh. An alleged Chinese spy. Which China just so happens to be America's biggest competitor in the AI landscape? Huh?
5:46–6:14 — Alicia McKenzie / In-Person: I just shocker another funny one. There's a I don't know what the term is. Meme or instant post, whatever. Tweet ex expert. you saw something on social media. You saw something on social media to start that. Good, good. Okay. And it it said that is all of Silicon Valley really just an espionage by the Chinese government? And it showed Mark Zuckerberg, his wife.
6:14–6:42 — Alicia McKenzie / In-Person: It showed Larry Ellis, his girlfriend slash wife. Yes. And then it showed NVIDIA CEO, his wife. And then I can't remember there was another one. Yes. But they're all small Chinese ladies or Asian of Asian descent. It is a strong possibility. It was it was quite quite funny. There's ~ all these billion, multi billion dollar Silicon Valley companies all kind of have a female Asian component.
6:41–7:10 — Alicia McKenzie / In-Person: Which is interesting. My next point do you hold the stock or do you sell? Is it gonna recover? I think it's gonna recover. I think so. Yeah. I think entirely too many people have woo so much capital wrapped up in NVIDIA and NVIDIA's investments in other AI companies. Like NVIDIA is AI. There's it's a big Circle jerk, yeah. it'll be interesting though, if there are
7:10–7:40 — Alicia McKenzie / In-Person: Not that we would ever know, but if it comes to pass that there is a Chinese backdoor or there's, you know, a flow of information directly from NVIDIA back to China, to Beijing, that kind of eliminates their advantage in the marketplace, then yeah, I could see the t stock cratering because its advantage is that it's the market leader and no one's even close. There's too much tied up in NVIDIA for it to fail.
7:39–8:08 — Alicia McKenzie / In-Person: Right, but what if China were able to produce a chip of similar performance? It's not just chips though. Cheaper. It's not just chips. NVIDIA is so much more than the chips. You don't think? No, because they invest it's a circle jerk. They invest in anthropic. They in inve hang on. They invest tens of billions into anthropic and to open AI and to Grok. And in turn, all those three companies s purchase
8:07–8:36 — Alicia McKenzie / In-Person: Tens of billions of dollars worth of NVIDIA chips. So it's like me giving you $100,000 for you to then buy $100,000 worth of my shit. Like it's a circle jerk, right? So it's not NVIDIA is this you know purveyor of AI. They're just giving away money to buy their chips. But the way NVIDIA has described AI, right? It's like they I think they called it a five-layer cake. Right? One, two, three, four, five layers. Yeah. They have investments.
8:35–8:41 — Alicia McKenzie / In-Person: And every single one of those layers. Right. What if that was all part of China's
8:40–9:01 — Alicia McKenzie / In-Person: espionage to infiltrate the entirety of America's ail? My mind is literally blown right now. Yeah. She's a Chinese spy. What if yeah, what if And she just got her fingers in every single layer of that five layer cake. Yeah, and he was I mean, she was running that ~ Taiwanese company that was buying
9:00–9:30 — Alicia McKenzie / In-Person: hundreds of millions of dollars worth of NVIDIA chips. What do you think she was doing with them? I feel like you can't make this shit up. ~ it is so juicy. So they were pumping hundreds of millions into NVIDIA. Mind blowing. So exciting. Okay. We gotta stop because you gotta go. Yep. But yes, this is just a taste of what is going to come. ~ a lot of hot takes, a little bit of this, a little bit of that. Yeah, let's see how AI does. Welcome. Putting A to the test. I'm out.