Gautam Mukunda
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 3
- Latest publication
- Aug 7, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for SiliconValley.com
- Top 5M sites
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- Jul 16, 2026
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Mukunda: What Elon Musk doesn’t understand about abundance (opens the original)
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Elon Musk, the world’s first trillionaire, told The Economist editor-in-chief Zanny Minto Beddoes in a recent interview that money won’t matter in 2036. He invoked a Star Trek-like future where robots and artificial intelligence will make us so wealthy that work will become a hobby like gardening and not a necessity. We’ve seen such predictions before, and we don’t have to read science fiction to know what people who don’t have to work are like. Abundance can abolish want. It can’t abolish the h
Mukunda: AI can create start-ups, just not good ones (opens the original)
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The U.S. Census Bureau said July 9 that it received 531,423 business applications in June on a seasonally adjusted basis, capping what was for the first half of the year the highest sustained rate of such applications in the 22-year history of the series. The surge is being interpreted as the first real evidence of an AI-driven entrepreneurial boom. Not necessarily. Artificial intelligence has made the mechanics of starting a business nearly free, and the mechanics were never the barrier that ma
Mukunda: Why voters (and corporate boards) keep falling for charming outsiders (opens the original)
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Maine oysterman Graham Platner suspended his Senate campaign amid a hurricane of revelations, culminating in a sexual assault allegation credible enough that his own national political party abandoned him within hours. Before the scandals, his appeal, blue-collar affect, and progressive policy positions had catapulted him to stardom. Platner’s meteoric rise and fall is a lesson in the potential dangers of charismatic, unfiltered outsiders that’s just as relevant in business as in politics. Platn
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