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Building a unicorn startup and achieving a billion-dollar valuation are verifiable real-world outcomes, but they are long-horizon and expensive to verify.
Thomas Larsen · AI 2040: Plan A report - Daniel Kokotajlo & Thomas Larsen · 8 Sept 2026
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“for example, you know, building a unicorn startup,”
“you know, having a billion dollar valuation,”
“that's a verifiable fact about the real world.”
“It's long, it's sort of like long horizon.”
“it's expensive to verify, but it's sort of a quantitative thing of like, you know, you got on one side, right,”Play from 27:11Report a misattribution
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