The Future of Work with Zoom CEO Eric Yuan and Reid Hoffman

Hey, everybody. This is Ben Kesnoka, cofounder and partner at Village Global, a network driven venture firm. And this is our podcast where we go deep on all things business and technology with world leading experts. Good morning. Good afternoon. Good evening, villagers. My name is Ben Kesnoka. Great to have everyone here, and we're delighted to have two of our Luminary LPs, Reid Hoffman, Eric Yuan, with us today to talk about all things AI. Reid, Eric, welcome. Thank you. Pleasure. Thank you. My prayer. Thank you. And, Eric, we must start with the obligatory thank you for creating, of course, the platform that's bringing us all together today. So awesome. You've said a few times that you think we'll be able to send digital versions of ourselves to most meetings so that we, the humans, can focus on what really matters. Could you share a bit more about that vision? I'm curious, Reid, If you buy that or how you think about a world in which we're all sending our bots to meetings, what does that look like, and what's the timeline for that, Eric? That's a great question. So when you look at the number of meetings, is a external meeting or internal meeting. For external meetings, I never wanted my digital for myself, a digital twin to join. I no matter how good or smart it is. But most of the meetings may be internal meetings for all of us. Right? For all those internal meetings, some meetings you must need to join. Some meetings you do not need to join, you will cancel. But a lot of meetings in between, you do not know if you needed to join or not. You're not sure. Quite often you join a meeting and after ten minutes you realize, gee, why should I join this meeting? I should leave. For those meetings, what if you send a digital version of yourself to join those meetings and summarize everything and assuming you are in a meeting. Or maybe that meeting becomes so important, we send you a note. Hey, Eric. Please come to this meeting. You better join. Talk with the game. Something like that. I think this is very important. And furthermore, as AI technology advances further, imagine even for external meetings. See, when you and I maybe will negotiate a contract. I do not wanna send my digital twin to talk with you, but you can send your digital twin. I can send my digital twin. Those two have a conversation. How many license you want to build, you want to buy, and what's the current use and so on and so forth and come up with a preliminary contract. Then we can and just have a signature. So those, cases, a digital version of yourself can truly help. So, Reid, does that resonate? Broadly, yes. Among other things, I already have a digital twin of myself that I send the things. Yeah. You have Read AI. …