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There is no free pizza. There's no free beer. When somebody like Sam Walman comes to you and says, "Here's some free
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tokens." Your alarm should go off. If you follow the Microsoft example, Lotus 123, Word Perfect were their partners.
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They were replaced with Excel. They were replaced obviously with Microsoft Word.
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You don't even know those other two. That's exactly what they have to do. And they have no choice but to do that now
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because they have a trillion dollar market cap. They must win the application layer. And Sam Alman went to
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Y Combinator and he said, "We'll give you $2 million worth of free tokens." And I came out and I said, "Listen,
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there's nothing personal against Sam. Sam's a very aggressive dealmaker and he wants to get access to those startups
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cuz he knows having run Y Combinator that if he can get their innovations, those founders latest thoughts about
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what's around the corner, he can incorporate them into the platform." Zuckerberg did the same thing. He said,
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"Hey, I'm going to give people a bunch of access, going to give them money. come to the Facebook platform. Nobody
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who went to bed with Microsoft in the 80s, Facebook in the 2000s, or Sam Alman now in in the 2020s did not wake up with
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their throat slit. This is a message to founders. If you partner with any of these people, they will slit your throat
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and take your business wholesale. There is nothing to discuss here. Don't trust them. Use your own models.