tech industry

“I think that's the beauty of the tech industry above any other. It's entirely a meritocracy.”

“So you pretty much can't own a home in California unless you make it big in tech or parents own a home.”

“The tech industry's averages is 75 days. I think we average about 45 days”

“There has long been a drug and alcohol problem in tech, not just in tech, but in lots of different parts of business and society, acknowledging it and then understanding what's at the root cause of it, and then some set of people deciding to change, change the…”

“And they're in a hurry, but I think we could end up 20 years from now without really well-trained executives leading businesses, because the foundational companies that used to do that for the industry are not anymore.”

“I've watched people who have acquired tremendous wealth, certainly beyond what I have and still be among some of the most dissatisfied, unhappy people.”

“Like, especially in Germany with the car industry, if that might be gone at some point, I think the tech industry will take over, and it will be the backing bone of Germany in the future.”

“Oftentimes, we bring board members in who life's only gone good for, and it's one of our problems in tech, is like, we need to bring people in that, you know, have some battle wounds, and like, maybe there was some successes that happened, but also some things…”

“We really aren't embracing failure anymore, right, in anywhere to the same degree that we were.”

“Alright, so in, in the tech industry, and especially in Silicon Valley, I think we have a very unhealthy practice where our identities are aligned with our work.”

“And then on the flip side, I find the tech industry is extremely ageist. Things advance so quickly that most people end up fearing being irrelevant. So if you take your foot off the pedal or you take a break, you kind of need to start from ground zero all over…”

“When you're in tech it's if you're relentless, you don't have to work with mediocre people, but in the events industry, almost everyone's terrible, literally terrible.”

“I don't think it's five years to Rory said, I think it's, I think by the middle of next year in tech, almost every single person's job will have changed by the middle of next year.”

“We're in a field where the number of runs you get for hitting a home run in baseball isn't one. If you slug it out of the stadium, you can make a million runs, not just one run. And so, at bats really matter. At bats really matter, and you don't want base hits…”

“I think it's the latter today because the former is still yet to take full effect at most companies”

“Yeah, I think our industry did a shitty job of engaging the community properly.”