I find this very interesting too. Firstly, let's be charitable and assume PG can look beyond any investment he has in judging this. I think he'd look at it then

I find this very interesting too. Firstly, let's be charitable and assume PG can look beyond any investment he has in judging this. I think he'd look at it then as some potholes on the way to an eventual smooth highway. He likes disruption of old, flawed ways. He likes motivated sorts doing the disrupting. Airbnb and Uber and the like are not without their own bumpy roads. And the potholes here are lay-offs for people who otherwise saw employment for a period with Lambda. Or payments to Lambda that trigger only when you're making money yourself. He might think of those as reasonable downsides en route to a more polished, future Lambda service. The model itself (pay if you earn) isn't outrageous. We had something similar (but government-based) with HECS in Australia, that's evolved a bit since.