Episode · This Week in Startups · 2025-10-22
Books mentioned on Amazon's "Age of Efficiency," LLM distribution, AI wearable worries, and more with Elad Gil | E2197
Today's show: *Amazon's dropping a LOT of employees for AI and robots… are Jason's darkest predictions coming true? Legendary investor Elad Gil joins Jason and Alex for the full show today!
Elad Gil discussed Accelerando by Charles Stross. Jason Calacanis discussed Virtual Light by William Gibson.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Accelerando
Discussed“I think um Have you guys ever read this book called Accelerondo? I have not. It's like a book. It's like a it's it's it's a book with wonderful concepts.”
Where to get it
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Virtual Light
Virtual Light by William Gibson is a seminal cyberpunk novel that established the author's renowned Bridge trilogy set in a dystopian future San Francisco.
Discussed“William Gibson had a similar concept with um in his um virtual light the bridge series of like San Francisco dystopian future.”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing The big short
“They make them very complicated which for the people who are the sharps who are constructing these between the poker sessions where they drop them out. It's like those option traders you know they're coming up with some really interesting synthetic thing they want to do like Michael Bur and the big short or whatever”