Episode of My First Million with Sam Parr and Shaan Puri.
Topics
- Introducing Demis Hassabis: The Prodigy Behind DeepMind
- The Chess Prodigy: A 10-Hour Match and a Pivot to Science
- Bullfrog Games and Turning Down a Million Pounds at 17
- DeepMind’s Early Days: Peter Thiel and Elon Musk’s Contrarian Bet
- Training AI with Games: From Pong to AlphaGo’s Move 37
- The Google Acquisition and Demis’s Mission-Driven Mindset
- The Royal Road to Self-Confidence: Passion and Resourcefulness
- AlphaFold: Solving the 50-Year Protein Folding Problem
- Isomorphic Labs: Google’s Quest to Solve All Disease
- The Importance of Documenting the ‘Come Up’
- Future Outlook: Computational Biology and AI Opportunities