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theory: engineer hobbies go mainstream

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You can't ignore a market with a lot of IQ working on it

Daniel Gross invokes Chris Dixon's 2012 crypto point: if many smart people are working on a problem, something will emerge, citing Deloitte's $43B revenue (with ~$12B in software consulting) as a market no-code/RPA could eat.

“Chris Dixon made this point about cryptocurrency in, in 2012. You cannot ignore a market if there's a lot of smart humans working on it. You cannot laugh at it. Like, something will emerge. There's just too many There's too much IQ working on this problem.”
EP 38 · 50:27 · DANIEL GROSS
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What engineers do on weekends, everyone does on weekdays

Shaan cites a Chris Dixon theory: the hobbies of Silicon Valley engineers and nerds eventually go mainstream. It's a lens for spotting future-mainstream trends early.

“There's another theory here that I think Chris Dixon wrote about, which is what the engineers do on the weekend, everybody will do on the weekdays eventually. Yeah, that's like what the nerds and sort of Silicon Valley people do as their hobbies eventually go mainstream.”
EP 26 · 5:04 · SHAAN
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