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by mbaytas 1469 days ago
Branding.

Member of elite institution (MIT) - check. Expert in hot field (AI) - check. Famous guests - check.

Anyone who checks these boxes can attract a large following for a podcast, youtube, etc.

MIT is perhaps the magic ingredient with the most brand power, through which he was able to attract initial famous guests. From there, snowball.

This is not to say that Lex is not hardworking, intelligent, consistent, etc. But being a MIT AI researcher is a vastly leveraged starting point.

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>This is not to say that Lex is not hardworking, intelligent, consistent, etc. But being a MIT AI researcher is a vastly leveraged starting point.

One might even conclude that "being an MIT AI researcher" is more-or-less equal to "hardworking, intelligent, consistent, etc"