DROPS E45: @0G_labs - How To Get Paid By AI Instead Of Being Replaced By It @michaelh_0g is the co-founder of @0G_labs. A year after the 0G token launch, he's back to talk about what went wrong, what he'd do again, and why he thinks compute is the next financial asset. Timestamps 00:00 Intro 03:06 Two Highlights Before 0G 04:11 Was Garten A Failure? 04:43 What Failure Teaches That Success Can't 06:42 Inside The 0G TGE War Room 08:38 What Happened To ZeroStack? 09:13 Delay The Launch Or Ship Anyway? 10:34 Would He Make The Same Call Again? 11:32 Conviction Or Momentum? 12:07 Multi-Billion Valuation, Unready Ecosystem 13:08 What Happened After The Token Launched 14:41 When People Tie Their Ego To Price 17:22 Newborn Daughter vs. A Business In Crisis 18:39 Why 0G Didn't Disappear In The Bear 20:34 Reviving 0G: Is AI The Answer? 23:03 How Is This Different From Venice AI? 24:39 ComputeFi, Explained Simply 25:22 Why Not Just Buy Compute With Yield? 26:35 Financializing Intelligence Itself? 26:59 Intelligence vs. Useful Intelligence 27:46 Why Compute Becomes A Financial Asset 29:07 The World If ComputeFi Wins 30:26 How ComputeFi Could Be Wrong 31:47 What People Still Miss About ComputeFi 32:56 Everything Gets Tokenized: Who Stands Out? 36:29 What A Decentralized Anthropic Can Do 38:33 Why Decentralized AI Matters To You 39:52 How Normal People Can Contribute 41:50 The AI Truth That'll Be Obvious In 5 Years 43:57 The September 2027 Prediction 45:48 Closing thoughts

Driving (well, getting driven) home tonight, I discuss with Grok in the car what to do about the latest increase in our Hulu subscription. He enquires what we really want, finds the solution and sends an email to my email with all instructions. Blown away!