My First Million

Story Of The Most Important Founder You've Never Heard Of

January 19, 2026·59 min·6-min readconversationaltechnology
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This episode dives into the life and groundbreaking work of Demis Hassabis, the visionary founder of DeepMind, whose relentless pursuit of artificial general intelligence (AGI) has reshaped AI, gaming, and biomedical science. From childhood chess prodigy to building AlphaGo and solving pr

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Mentions

Books, people, and resources mentioned in this episode.

People

Demis HassabisPeter ThielElon MuskLee SedolEric SchmidtVlad Tenev

Books

The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speakingby Dale Carnegie

Companies

DeepMindIsomorphic Labs

Products & Tools

AlphaGoAlphaFold

Research & Papers

AlphaFold: A Solution to Protein Folding

Topics

Artificial IntelligenceDeep LearningEntrepreneurshipMachine LearningScientific MethodStartupsTech IndustryVenture Capital

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