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Books mentioned on Thomas Laffont: The $4T AI IPO Wave, 2026's Unicorn Economy, and the 10X Paradox

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Thomas Laffont discussed Foundation by Isaac Asimov.

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   Foundation

   Isaac Asimov · at 24:29

   Foundation by Isaac Asimov is an epic science fiction masterwork that chronicles the collapse and rebirth of a galactic empire through the lens of psychohistory and predictable social trends.

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   “So one one event completely dented the trajectory of almost that entire industry. So it's hard for me to know whether that's truly, you know, whether these companies were like the mule in the Foundation series, something that could never be predicted and just came out of nowhere and it was just a one-time thing.”

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