Who Profits When Everyone Is Recording? (ft. Kyla Scanlon)
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Who Profits When Everyone Is Recording? (ft. Kyla Scanlon)

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 7, 202634 min
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  • Technology

A new show in the Prof G universe by writer and investor Jack Raines! Each week, Jack takes a big story in tech or money and asks what it means for your life and your wallet. In today's episode, Jack Raines explores the surveillance economy, from AI glasses and viral videos to police camera networks. What happens when someone else trades away your privacy – and who benefits when everyday life becomes content and data? Writer and economic commentator Kyla Scanlon joins him to discuss the tradeoffs between privacy, convenience, and safety, and whether AI is...

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Support for the show comes from Alumni Ventures. We've said it before, diversification is our Kevlar vest. But do you know how concentrated your public stock fund actually is? A handful of mega cap stocks with an AI story are doing most of the work. That's not the diversification you think, especially

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when so much value creation is happening before companies ever go public. Alumni Ventures, ranked a top 20 US venture firm by both time and CB Insights, gives accredited investors a smart, simple way to assemble a blue chip venture portfolio and participate in the value creation that is occurring in private markets.

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You can sign up for free, see the weekly deal flow, and decide for yourself. Or write one check into the Alumni Ventures Foundation Fund for a diversified portfolio of about 25 private venture deals. Go to av.gc.prog.

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