Kaz Nejatian
31 statements across 2 episodes · 11 bullish · 9 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Aug 14, 2024 by Kaz Nejatian · said 2 times in 2 episodes since 2023 · across every show →
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Aug 14, 2024 negative
Kaz Nejatian: Forcing information through org charts causes major failures
“The biggest mistakes I have made in my career have all been of the same shape, unfortunately. And it's just, it's very, I'll tell you the shape. And I like, and it's a lesson I will perpetually learn. I need to relearn every single time. I have a limited the i…”
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Nejatian: Most growth tech companies only pretend to value learning
“But let's be honest, most even growth companies just cosplay as learners. They have a whole bunch of things you're not allowed to say. A whole bunch of companies have like these religious things they believe that you're not allowed to question.”
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Nejatian: Every Great Product Starts with a Clear Vision to Fix a Misguided World
“Everything good ever created started with someone saying, hold on a second. The world is wrong about X. I will fix it. The initial thing of saying, I have to create a thing to fix a problem for me or for someone else, requires you to know what you want at the …”
Aug 14, 2024 bullish
Nejatian: V1 products must be constrained visions, not visionless experiments
“It is totally okay to ship a V one of something which is constrained version of your final vision, right? That's totally okay. In fact, everyone should do that. But what a lot of people do is have zero vision. They just ship something to see what happens next.…”
Aug 14, 2024 neutral
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Nejatian: Sequenced education, work, and marriage predict male success best
“The data behind this is undeniable for men, specifically for men, graduating from high school, getting some job experience and getting married in that order as soon as possible. Is more indicative is more indicative of success, including health, wealth, and ha…”
Aug 14, 2024 negative
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Aug 14, 2024 positive
Nejatian: Keith Rabois and Max Levchin are exceptionally aggressive in execution
“And I think it may come out of how they grew in tech, is that they are, I see this with admiration, more aggressive than anyone you can imagine being. They're incredibly kind, but very aggressive, ah, in their execution, in their ambition.”
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Aug 14, 2024 bullish
Kaz Nejatian: Meta Ray-Ban glasses are almost an iPhone moment
“If you have used the new Ray-Ban glasses, you have seen what the future will look like. It is very clearly how it's going. Like, it's just very clear that, like, this is, like, I think Ray-Ban glasses are just, like, not quite the iPhone moment, but they're, l…”
Aug 14, 2024 positive
Nejatian: Tobi Lütke overruled my opposition to remote culture software
“We were starting to build internal software. Shopify is a remote company. We're starting to build software to manage our culture remotely. I thought this was just the nuttiest thing to do. Like, this is just, like, total waste of code. Like, this is a bad idea…”
Aug 14, 2024
Nejatian: Most companies only care about building the right thing
“If the user is not better off, it's because we say the job of PM at Shopify is to build the right thing the right way at the right time. Most companies don't actually care about the right way part, or the right time part, they care about the right thing part, …”
Sep 18, 2025 bullish
Nejatian: Opendoor will launch a long-term ecosystem of free and paid real estate products
“We will create a network for buyers and sellers, homeowners, home buyers, and home sellers, where they will have a long-term relationship with us over a series of products we will launch. Some of them will be free, just because they're good. Some of them will …”
Sep 18, 2025 negative
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Sep 18, 2025 neutral
Nejatian: Personally audited every Opendoor invoice from the past 12 months
“Like, I, one of the first things I did was I got the board member, and I went through literally every invoice the company had paid for the last 12 months. Like actually every single one of them. Like I've reviewed like every line item.”
Sep 18, 2025 bullish
Nejatian: AI has solved automated home pricing without physical inspections
“I think three years ago, this was an incredibly difficult problem that required human beings to visit homes and look around and look at the shape of the cart. Like, that's the real thing. If you're one side of the street that has a slope, the other side doesn'…”
Sep 18, 2025 positive