This Is Leverage

The most interesting and the most important form of leverage is This idea of products that have no marginal cost of replication This is the new form of leverage This is only invented in the last few hundred years It got started with the printing press It accelerated with broadcast media and now it's really blown up With the internet and with code So now you can multiply your efforts Without having to involve other humans And without needing money from other humans This song is a form of leverage This album is a form of leverage Not long ago, I would have had to sit in a lecture hall And lecture each of you personally and I would have maybe reached A few hundred people and that would have been that 30 years ago, I would have to be lucky to get on TV Which is somebody else's leverage They would have distorted the message They would've taken the economics out of it or charged me for it It would have muddled the message And I would've been lucky to get that form of leverage Today, thanks to the internet, I can buy a cheap microphone Hook it up to a laptop or an iPad and there you are, all listening This is leverage This is leverage This is leverage There you are, all listening This is leverage This is leverage This is leverage There you are, all listening This newest form of leverage is where all the new fortunes are made All the new billionaires The last generation, fortunes were made by capital But the new generation fortunes are all made through code or media Now, the beauty is when you combine all of these three And that's where tech startups really excel Where you take just the minimum But highest output labor that you can get Which are engineers and designers, product developers And then you add in capital You use that for marketing, advertising, scaling And you add in lots of code and media and podcast And content to get it all out there That is a magic combination And that's why you see technology startups explode out of nowhere Use massive leverage and just get huge outsize returns This is leverage This is leverage This is leverage There you are, all listening This is leverage This is leverage This is leverage There you are, all listening The most interesting things about the new forms of leverage is They are permissionless For labor leverage, somebody has to decide to follow you For capital leverage Somebody has to give you money to invest or turn into a product But coding, writing books, recording podcasts These kinds of things, these are permissionless You don't need anyone's permission to do that This is leverage This is leverage This is leverage There you are, all listening This is leverage This is leverage This is leverage There you are, all listening This song (is leverage) This album (is leverage) This media (is leverage, there you are) This song (is leverage) This album (is leverage) This (is leverage, there you are) (This is leverage, there you are) (This is leverage, there you are)