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We’ve spent decades making everything faster, easier, and more convenient, but what if we optimized away some of the things that *actually* make us human?
Srinija Srinivasan is basically a founding mother of the internet. She was employee #5 at Yahoo, spent 15 years there as Editor-in-Chief and VP, helped shape how the early internet was organized, chaired the board of SFJAZZ, served on Stanford’s Board of Trustees, and later co-founded Loove, bringing technology and the arts together. And now, she’s building an entirely new kind of college.
In this ep, we talk about:
→ what it was really like helping build Yahoo! in the early internet
→ what makes the best business partnerships actually work
→ why imagination, creativity, and curiosity matter even more in the age of AI
→ why art is so hard to make money from
→ the human cost of optimizing everything for efficiency
→ why convenience m...