This is way bigger than the last PyCon we talked at. It was 2002. Just a small fraction of the attendance today.
What is silicon valley like?
We are in the center of silicon valley right now, right here
A list of 7 Giant startup ideas (be a billionaire!!)
The biggest startup ideas are frightening
The threaten your identity
Start the next google
The right ideas are just on the right side of impossible
Google may have peaked, but doesn’t mean there is a room for a new search engine
Paul is nostalgic to the old google.
Now results are like scientology results. What’s true is true for you (big laughs)
Find the tiny thing that turns into the giant idea. Find the dinosaur egg.
Email is a to-do list not communication
But it’s a shitty to-do list
Tweaking the inbox is not enough
Make a to-do list protocal
Gives more power to the receipent
People send emails to themselves is proof of this (I do this all the time)
Entreanched protocols are almost impossible to replace
But it’s time
He could justify spending tons of money on this
Is reluctant to suggest this.
The last couple decades universities have went down a bad path
They are like expensive country clubs
Change the way people learn
Huge Applause
Slow to embrace the internet
Hates TVs
Some of the attention people spend watching TV can be stole by other things
Still a residual demand for people who want to watch a story unfold
Two ways delivery and payment can play out
Was talking to somebody who knew Apple well. Asks the question, “Post Steve Jobs can Apple still innovate” Answer: No
Only want to get a product visionary as CEO is for that person to start the company. (And that person doesn’t get fired)
The next Apple is a start up
Who’s going to make the future
Hardware was solving softwares problems
Not anymore
Would be great if a start up could give back something of the old Moore’s Law
Make many CPU’s look and act like one super fast one
Programmers like convience
In world of web services we don’t see processors anymore
Instead of the compiler, build stuff out of smaller components. (hadoop, map / reduce)
Imagine the ways we will seem backwards to people in the future
Surely, in the future this will happen. People will know how blocked their arteries are like their weight
Next example, Cancer
Traditionally you feel symptoms, go to the Dr. Need to start looking for problems pro-actively.
If people are scanned all the time - there will be less freak-out moments
Going against thousand of years of medical history
If you want to take on a problem, don’t make a frontal attack.
Don’t say you’re replacing email, say you’re building to-do list software
Start with small things, make them bigger
Start small for your own sake, not for other people
Columbus “There is something in the West”
Blurry view of the future is the best
The idea of what is property? What is convient to be called property. Land didn’t used to be, but it is now.
Now files move around like smells. Doesn’t make sense to charge people for copies anymore.
Get a degree from people, not institutions
Maybe universities used to be like this