Andrew Yang’s 2020 presidential campaignwas based on awarning that automation and AI would hollow out the labor market and concentrate wealth in the hands of a few. At the time, ideas like Universal Basic Income felt fringe. Now Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, and Bernie Sanders are allsaying versionsof the same thing.
An entrepreneur at heart, Yang has found a new way to put money back into the hands of the people—one phone bill at a time. On this episode of TechCrunch’sEquitypodcast, Rebecca Bellan talks to Yang abouthisstartupNoble Mobile, which pays you to use your phone less, ways to combat the“attention economy,”and what startups can do when the governmentwon’tmove.
Listen to the full episode to hear:
- Why Yang thinks the$100 billiongap between what Americans and Europeans pay for wireless is a startup opportunity.
- How a partnership with theLight Phonefits into the growing “together tech” movement, and why Yang has been throwing no-phone parties in LA and NYC.
- What heactually thinksof Bernie Sanders’ proposed AI sovereign wealth fund, and whyhe’sskepticalthe money should flow through government at all.
- Why UBIisn’ta salary replacement but a “landing pad,” and what Noble Mobile’s $600-a-year savings has to do with it.
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