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Technology should pursue dramatically better products and services
Technology should pursue dramatically better products and services
Tan says the objective of technological progress should extend beyond reducing costs toward making products and services radically better, and he frames the broader technology industry as earnestly attempting to improve the world.
- Interview
- Garry Tan: New Rules for Founders
- Speaker
- Garry Tan
- Source timestamp
- 32:00
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