Nat Friedman

Um, there's also, um, this is, this is maybe one step further than quantified self.

Um, but there was the group that I think, I think was m-majorly funded by, by Nat Friedman and some other, um, like bigger names in, in tech who Took samples from, you know, a bunch of different food products, a bunch of different, like, delivery items from restaurants, and, like, tested them all for microplastics.

So it was like-

Mm-hmm

While we wait for the interview to begin, the press handler I'd known from Menlo Park says hello and introduces me to a woman seated in front of me who turns around laboriously.

This is Vanessa Friedman, as you know, chief fashion critic of the New York Times, she says.

Vanessa, this is Jeremy Stern from Colossus.

We shake hands, and Friedman nods and smiles at me, with the polite confusion and quiet pain of the queen being introduced to a plumber.

I immediately took a liking to her.

She is smaller but grander and more sensible-seeming than the influencers who fill in the seats around us, many of whom she appears to know.

The next day, the press handler who's been shepherding me asks where I'd gone after the interview finished at the terminal warehouse.

She couldn't find me when Zuckerberg materialized again later in the evening with Kylie Jenner and Timothee Chalamet, and speeches were given that it should not have been physically possible for me to have missed, but of which I had no memory.

First of all, it, it's Meta taking a page out of Apple's book, and that's partly from the people who they hired about a year ago.

Nat Friedman I think was one of the people who's, uh, really instrumental in this app in particular.

But also, it seems like our digital lives have gotten far more cluttered over the past decade.

So many emails, so many text messages, and this is almost like the decluttering of that, so maybe that's the bullish case for AI use case, at least in a consumer standpoint.

Tell us the Kilo founding story.

So Kilo was originally founded, uh, by JP Posma, who was working on the Vesuvius Challenge with Nat Friedman and Sid Sibrandi.

Uh, and JP had a family circumstance come up and had to step away.

I was in the, uh, Sid orbit at the time.

And I'm Richard Campbell.

Our friend, uh, Don XML...

I mean, Don Demsak is here.

Oh, geez.

Uh, Trump and Kim Jong Un still crazy after all these years.

Nice.

Still friends.

That-