Chris Yeh (https://chrisyeh.com/) is the co-founder of the Blitzscaling Academy, which teaches individuals and organizations how to plan for and execute on hypergrowth. He’s also cofounder of Blitzscaling Ventures, which invests in the world's fastest-growing startups. Chris has founded, advised, or invested in over 100 high-tech startups since 1995, including companies like Ustream and UserTesting.com. 

He is the co-author, along with Reid Hoffman, of Blitzscaling: The Lightning-fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies, and the co-author, along with Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha, of the New York Times bestseller, The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age. Chris earned two degrees from Stanford University, and an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he was named a Baker Scholar.

Chris has practical experience working with AI, including co-authoring a book called Impromptu with GPT-4 and Reid Hoffman in early 2023. As an investor, he is interested in AI companies automating tedious and routine tasks, not just the "sexiest" ideas.

In this episode:

• Yeh says self-awareness is critical for founders to build positive impact companies. Understanding your own impact allows you to build sustainable products (04:43 ).
• Yeh says at the highest level, we need to track whether AI actually creates greater value than the status quo, because at the end of the day, all of the civilization around us is the result of surplus added value (11:10 )
• Yeh thinks mindfulness is lacking from current AI. AI should be more aware of human emotions and mindful like Inflection AI's "PI" model (15:38 ).
• If AI was to be built with compassion and mindfulness it could provide a tremendous benefit to humanity and help people going through difficult situations (16:35 ).
• Overall there's need for AI to be designed thoughtfully with human values like mindfulness and compassion in mind, not just pure productivity.

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