Ernest Garcia
23 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Apr 7, 2025 by Ernest Garcia · across every show →
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Apr 7, 2025
Garcia: Peer respect matters more in hiring than prior experience
“I would way rather take a person in any role that is respected by someone that I respect than someone who's done it before. Like, I don't, my personal view is like, I don't care that much if you've done it before. I really don't, and I don't care that much if …”
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Garcia: Public market pressure is essential for driving maximum company success
“If success is the, is more important to you? I think you want to be public. I think that the things that people say about being Public are true. Like there are bad things, right? People are short-sighted and they focus on things that don't matter that much. Bu…”
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Garcia: Executive job-hopping during adversity is driven by status anxiety
“I think that it's a group of people that are not motivated by status as much as most are. And I think that that matters because I think that like a lot of times what creates the moments of change, like where people bounce from company to company, I think is it…”
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Garcia: Competitive sports are the best tool to teach wealthy kids ambition
“I think that the best answer in my opinion is sport. Not everyone loves sports, but the thing about sports is someone wins and someone loses every single time. And it doesn't matter where you started. It doesn't matter you know, where you woke up this morning …”
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Garcia: Spot true leaders by watching who answers unscripted meeting questions
“You know, you sit in a room where you're getting kind of like readouts on what's going on with the project and you ask questions and you figure out who's answering all the questions. And there tend to be a subset of people who everyone in the room, their heads…”
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Garcia: Physical operations create defensibility as AI makes software easily replicable
“I think that like, as it sits today, I think you want to have. Meaningful physical processes where things are moving and ideally different business processes where the dots are connected in different ways. And then the software layer like makes all that happen…”
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Garcia: Leaders must be extra cautious when strategy matches their default instincts
“It's hard to manage in that direction that you believe is right when you also know that it's your instinct. It's your default. It's the error that you're most likely to make. You have to make sure that you're, like, being really careful in those moments, I thi…”
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Garcia: Very few investors will back businesses requiring ten sequential risks
“When you have to solve 10 problems in a row, there's just not that many people that want to take that risk. I think there's people that'll take You know, two or three risks in a row, but when you've got like 10 in a row, it's just, it's very hard to find that …”
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Garcia: Childhood financial instability harms happiness but drives ambition
“My guess, without confidence, would be Knowing that you could lose it all every night is not good for your happiness and for your, you know, like mental daily wellbeing. It's probably very good for your ambition. It probably hardens you and creates character t…”
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Garcia: Stock surges are cheap dopamine; true satisfaction requires difficult battles
“There's superficial happiness and there's deep happiness. There's cheap dopamine and there's expensive dopamine. You know, stock goes up, cheap dopamine, you know, like jump on Twitter, read that you're smart, you know you know, cheap dopamine. Then there's li…”