The most important truth-seeking is finding valuable unknown truths, which creates change, and the faster the change, the more resistance from nature — you must overwhelm that resistance with progress and build trust to have more advocates than adversaries.
Kalanick articulates a framework where finding valuable unknown truths accelerates change, which naturally generates resistance from the system — so innovators must bring enough progress to overwhelm that resistance while building trust to win more advocates than adversaries. ✦ AI generated
Travis Kalanick · a16z Podcast · 2026-07-22 · original ↗
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the most important truth seeking is the seeking of valuable unknown truths. But if you're good at finding valuable unknown truths, you're creating change. Then you know things other people don't know, which means you can do things that other people can't do. And the better you are at it, the faster the change comes. … The faster the change comes, the more nature will do what it does. It's called resistance to change. … You have to figure out how to bring big time progress to overwhelm resistance to change. And you also have to build trust … so that you have more advocates versus adversaries.
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76:34Yeah. >> Uh in a way that it >> wasn't really before. >> Yeah. >> Well, or you think of it this way. We could go to a data center. That's real estate. Yeah, right. >> How much h how many how many tops are now happening at a data center today versus 20 years ago? >> Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. >> So, and how much value is coming out of
76:54those tops, right? >> So, the value of a data center in terms of what it provides society is going up >> over time dramatically. >> And there's a lot of happy data center owners right now because of it. >> No doubt. Yeah. No doubt. my friend Rob Roy. >> Yeah, shout out to Rob. >> Yeah, we'll get him on soon. So, speaking of, you know, painting this
77:16vision to talent and just talking about where the future is going, talk more about the emerging category that Adams sits within you're calling industrial AI. >> Yeah. So, look, I I did a a vision letter when we launched Adams that outlined sort of vision for like physical AI, where we sit in it. um and even went into like what a physical AI stack is and it's really in some ways I
77:46it was like it was philosophy about where the technology world in the in in the the the tech industry in the physical world where it's going to go. But what I didn't do was get to the brass tax and sort of when you look at okay well there's software there's bits that are affecting how atoms what happens to atoms like how they're assembled where they go what function do
78:21they do in the physical world um we basically we started I'm all over the place right now cut edit But um we wanted to create we wanted to create an easy way to understand what it means. And I would I said okay Adam's mission physical automation to transform industries. You're like okay okay kind of gets me there but what does that mean exactly? Well, it means we take entire