Am I going to invest in Bitcoin? Is Elon Musk the greatest innovator of the century? These are two questions that I am asked too frequently for my liking, usually with the presumably correct answer of yes and yes. We live in a period where we want to disrupt everything, and at unprecedented scale: taxis, restaurants, mattresses, healthcare, how long your dog lives. Everything is fair game. Marc Andreessen has told us that It’s Time to Build, and we are. We’re building factories in space, we’re sending rockets to Mars and we’re flying commercially supersonic aircraft. Want to launder money?…

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