Jake Taylor

The Most Valuable Prize (Ever)

8/31/2025

Sam Altman will become Supreme Leader of the Universe. That is, if OpenAI is the first to accomplish the nebulous "AGI". Three years ago OpenAI shook the world with the launch of ChatGPT. Today, small companies you've never heard of are thr...

The Anti-Startup

8/28/2025

I recently travelled to Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. I found an obvious, but profound truth hiding in plain sight. The world around me operated on a mostly different technology stack. Most of the apps I am used to were obsolete. Clearly I was...

Normative Economics

5/30/2024

Lina Khan's Quest to Regulate Markets Lina Khan is the chairman of the FTC. She has taken a hawkish approach to antitrust law in the US, with a vendetta for large technology companies. Despite the outcries of tech bros everywhere, ...

If Intelligence Was Free

4/1/2024

Artificial Intelligence is just beginning its cambrian explosion; no one, not even employees at the top companies building AI could have predicted how fast AI tools would proliferate. The infrastructure powering this technology has scaled t...