And I didn't have the experience to be running that company. And I grew it to thousands of people. An international business shipping millions of virtual reality headsets [music] all over the world.I started Oculus VR when I was 19 years old, living in a camper trailer and putting myself [music] through school. And I didn't have the experience to be running Android either. I had absolutely no business running this company.People could have made the exact same criticism. What the hell does Palmer know about ...

Whoever gets more momentum ends up winning. And so a big role of a VC is to kind of help you get that momentum. So, oh, I raised money from the best VC.Therefore, [music] like smart engineers, they'll join my company and not their company. So, then I have better engineers and I have better product. Then I [music] pick up more customers and then I have more money and I get raised the next round faster and [music] away I go.And not tell you when. ...

Welcome to Big Ideas for 2026. We'll hear from Mark Andrew on the evolution of AI user interfaces and how the way we interact with intelligent systems is fundamentally changing. Stephanie Zayn discusses what it means to design for agents rather than humans, a shift that's reshaping product development.And Olivia Moore will share her thoughts on the rise of AI voice agents and their growing role in our daily lives. These aren't just predictions. They're insights from the people working directly with the foun ...

Action produces information. So just keep doing stuff. Even if you're like not sure what to do, like just do anything because when you do it, it'll produce some information.Like people liked it, they didn't. This was very true for me. There was times where I just did something instead of debating it endlessly and like just try it, you know.Like all right. So, we shipped it and like there was a couple times where like the minute I shipped it, I was like, I know we we built this wrong, but now I have an idea ...

2018 2019 in fintech was late spring. You get into 2020 and COVID and that was utter insanity of a of a story. >> Like 25% of all venture dollars in that period went into fintech which is >> Wow. 25%. >> The stat after that is not a good stat which is um starting in like the second half of 2022 like basically 0% of venture dollars went into >> drought maybe. >> Yeah. Yeah. Fintech winter was the second half of 2022. Most of 23 and 24 things started to thaw a little bit and like now we're very much back in s ...

all are from dust and all turn to dust again. >> We can create infinite universes. >> This is like the fuel that we need.There's never been a technical project of this complexity and this scale ever. It has all led to this. The past has brought you here.Two paths, two futures, teaching sand to think or being left in the dust. What will it take to collapse the distance between idea and invention. >> This technology saved my voice.to build machines that build with us and wire the earth with thought. It takes ...

If you don't enforce crime, what you end up is with lost generations. >> Yeah. If I woke up in 10 years and all we had done was put a lot of people in prison. It's actually double bad. >> Yeah. Well, we're throwing people away, right? Like, you know, that's the worst possible thing. So, the best thing is to say, hey, look, if you commit crimes, you're going to get caught. And then that kind of changes the societal incentives and the culture and everything else. I mean, look, if I can become a criminal and m ...

If you're an individual contributor and you're doing [music] work, it's very nice to know that your manager is going through more pain than you. If you're a senior leader or an executive, you're 5 days. If you're a manager, [music] 4 days. If you're an IC, 3 days.I think that's also a general principle for shipping fast. It has to [music] start at the top. And you have to be willing to do yourself to an even [music] higher degree what what you ask of of everyone. ...

My big idea for 2026 is the renaissance of the American factory. I think next year we'll see companies approach challenges from energy to mining to construction to manufacturing with a factory first mindset. The modular deployment of AI and autonomy alongside skilled labor will make complex bespoke processes operate like an assembly line.America's first great century was built on industrial strength, but it's no secret that we've lost a lot of that muscle. Some of that has been from offshoring, from the fin ...

be so good they can't ignore you. That remains the best advice I think which is just like quality shows. >> The thing that you want from your venture firm is power.You need the ability to be able to like actually go meet customers and have them take you seriously. >> For most of these people it's years and years and years of of applied effort. The best entrepreneurs of the future I think will probably be like quite skilled at like six or eight. ...