Oliver and Victoria dissect Sergey Brin's appearance on All In (5/20/2025), unpacking the Google co-founder's casual approach to building AGI and his surprising vulnerability in the face of his own creation.

🔥 Topics we cover:

• Sergey's bizarre admission about threatening AI models with "kidnapping" for better performance

• The OpenAI party encounter that FOMO'd him out of retirement back into Google

• How he's secretly using AI to manage teams and identify promotion candidates through Slack

• The billionaire founder too awkward to use voice mode in his own open office

• His existential paralysis watching AI surpass his high school son at calculus

• The bureaucratic absurdity of Google banning its own founder from using Gemini to code

• Why he sold Boston Dynamics and doesn't believe in humanoid robots

• His casual pricing of civilization-altering intelligence at "twenty bucks a month"

• Larry Page's "humans as stepping stones" philosophy and Sergey's wine deflection

• The cosmic joke of the man who organized world's information unable to navigate his own company

• Whether Sergey's casual demeanor is visionary confidence or existential cope

• Deep Research as a preview of human intellectual obsolescence

• The most powerful man in tech reduced to sneaking AI instructions into Slack