McKinsey and company

“McKinsey or whomever will put out reports on, ah, you know, what mobile commerce will be or what mobile usage will be. And all of them have been beaten and been off by orders of magnitude over the last few years”

“I'd like to thank some somewhat misleading research that was put out 10 or 15 years ago by McKinsey and some other academics that suggested that the largest companies in the country were turning over at a very rapid pace. You can find a lot of articles, and yo…”

“One of my rules is if McKinsey could have written this, that might be B or B plus work. It's not good enough for APC. It has to be something that's out there enough that McKinsey would have been maybe uncomfortable publishing it or writing about it.”

“My chief of staff had come to the interview, having read everything about me, having already having a point of view on the things that I needed to change, the types of like challenges I would have. And you know, that totally convinced me way more than years of…”

“In fact, most of the industry is adopting that now. They hire Bain and Company McKinsey to do what we do internally at Bain Capital.”

“Spent two years at McKinsey. I absolutely hated it.”

“It was a very rigid environment intellectually. There was a way to do things, and if you didn't do things that way, you would fail, right?”

“The greatest entrepreneurs I find of all time when I look at pattern recognition on the people we've had on the show is all the best entrepreneurs made money or showed entrepreneurial signs in some way in their childhood. I made websites. I sold lemonade. I so…”

“It's why whether I'm hiring you or I'm investing in you, I will always go back to your early childhood. No great person who was hugely ambitious fell out of McKinsey and Bain and thought, oh, now I'm going to be really ambitious and courageous.”

“That's the kind of exceptionalism that we're looking for in some area of their life. And it might come out through the application, it might be the interview video, or the interview itself, but we're looking for that spark that they are not average, like they'…”

“I've been talking to students for the last few days at our top universities, and the high status thing to do as a university CS undergrad is to go and work at Jane Street or Goldman Sachs or McKinsey.”

“You know, like that's what you're looking for is this founder market fit around the problem, not somebody who's like a McKinsey consultant who said like, if their first slide is here's the market map and here's the market size and, you know, here's the niche w…”

“And I think the consultants like Accenture and McKinsey are the leading edge of this. But I think it's going to come into software very, very quickly.”

“The fastest growing business inside of McKinsey is software.”

“No great entrepreneurs came out of Harvard, Stanford, Oxford, Cambridge, Went to McKinsey and that's where they made their first money.”

“One of the most clear signs for me of an exceptional entrepreneur is they always start early. They always sold Nokia mobile phones on eBay. A lemonade stand at school, you know, whatever that may be. You never came out of McKinsey or Bain and made your first e…”

“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…”

“And sometimes people, they're kind of, they're trying to find, like, a perfect solution, but the truth of life is that nobody knows future, and nobody may make, like, perfect decisions just based on information or analysis, because if it were the case, then Mc…”

“I think MBAs make a lot of sense for people who are trying to break into a specific industry. Like if you are trying to break into private equity or you want to be a PM at Amazon or go into McKinsey, then MBAs have like your preset path and you just follow you…”

“I think the best background to enter as a PM is either being an entrepreneur, which teaches you to think about things that matter, or being a very good analyst of some kind, like somebody who's done very deep, thoughtful analysis over how something works at Mc…”

“When I started, we had about a hundred engineers total in firm. By the time I left, we had 7000.”

“We announced today a big project we've done with McKinsey, you know, focusing on European public sector work.”