Dmitry Gurski
23 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 5 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Sep 23, 2024 by Dmitry Gurski · across every show →
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Sep 23, 2024
Sep 23, 2024
Vinod Khosla: Business building is like marriage, demands choosing one model
“Business and product building is very similar to your marriage. You have many opportunities before your marriage, but to be happy, you should choose one and really focus. And my advice to you, choose one business model and be really focused.”
Sep 23, 2024
Gurski: Great CEOs focus on self-awareness over pursuing unattainable perfection
“They should be almost kind of gods, but theos are just like the same people, and they can't be so perfect as people think they should be. You should just understand your Weaknesses, your strengths. You should understand why you're useful, and you should just m…”
Sep 23, 2024
Sep 23, 2024 neutral
Gurski: Rational smart people join McKinsey while startup founders are crazy
“And my personal opinion is that founder must be crazy. Because if you are smart and you may understand your odds, like, How would you do that? Why would you decide to start something with chances of success, like one, two, three, four, five percent? Like, it's…”
Sep 23, 2024 neutral
Sep 23, 2024
Sep 23, 2024
Gurski: Innate talent is a myth; brain processing power is equal
“I don't believe in talent. I believe that all people are approximately the same. We have the same processor, and what makes people different is just hours of hard work, hard focused work, and when people say to me that I can't accomplish something, asking very…”
Sep 23, 2024
Gurski: Building a startup requires the non-fakeable deferred gratification of farming
“You just can't fake farming. It means that you should take potato, not eat it immediately, even if you're hungry, and you should put this potato to ground, and then you must not eat this potato next day, and even one month after, you should wait, and then you …”
Sep 23, 2024 negative
Gurski: Conducting layoffs is emotionally easier for founders than venture fundraising
“Even layoffs are simpler, because layoffs is like computation. Cut, and you're just in two or three weeks, and you continue your work. But fundraising, it's like, just like, it's each day you're getting no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, and you're starting to lo…”
Sep 23, 2024 positive
Gurski: Successful founders have a duty to return wealth to society
“You should create something valuable commercially, but then it's your duty to return this money for society and to do that very efficiently. And I believe that if you are really successful, second part of your life should be not to earn money, but to spend you…”
Sep 23, 2024 negative
Gurski: VC junior screeners favor elite Harvard and Stanford alumni profiles
“Investors, they, especially in big funds you usually start your conversation not with, like, partners or mentioned partners, but with analysts or with principles. And this people usually have profile kind of Graduated in Harvard, MBA in Stanford, or graduated …”
Sep 23, 2024
Gurski: Imposter syndrome and insecurity are my startup superpowers
“It's pretty natural because of my imposter syndrome and inferiority complex, and I'm not even playing. It's my pretty natural state, but also I think it's my superpower because I'm always so insecure about My position, position of the company that I'm always t…”
Sep 23, 2024
Sep 23, 2024 negative
Sep 23, 2024 negative
Sep 23, 2024
Gurski: Super apps maintain focus by giving teams independent segment ownership
“You may create teams which solely focused on own part of the product, and for them it's a single product, and they have full focus on this product. And in our company, each team has own part of product to own... But it's the way how to have focus in the case o…”
Sep 23, 2024
Gurski never flies business class to save money for hiring developers
“I never use business class even in my trips to United States, even to Seattle or San Francisco because all the time I'm thinking, okay, five, 10,000. I would better to pay one month of salary to developer in Lithuania Then she raised this money for my comfort,…”
Sep 23, 2024
Sep 23, 2024 negative
Sep 23, 2024
Sep 23, 2024
Gurski: Early startup success requires resource conservation, not pure speed
“The most significant early days is not to die too early, because usually you need to iterate several times to find something that works, and you increase speed, but you waste your resources on the way, probably it's a bad advice.”