Wall Street

“When money is available at will at great valuations for these companies so that they can experiment and do autonomous vehicles and You know, when you spend five hundred million on a project that Wall Street just like, this is stupid, and why are you doing this…”

“Well, I actually don't really view other crypto funds as competitors. The reason being that this is not a zero-sum game like much of Wall Street feels like it is. If you're a derivatives trader on Wall Street, if you win, somebody else loses directly. In this …”

“I'd look for people that have been in this ecosystem for a long time. I'd look for people that have deep technical expertise in this subject matter. I'd look for people that have solid networks among relevant people in this ecosystem. I would avoid Folks that …”

“I think just in the same way that Wall Street has been transformed by technology over the last decade and platform businesses have built, I think you'll see the same thing in Silicon Valley, where technology will transform it and platforms will be built.”

“And we're seeing, you know, not since oh one, we're seeing unprecedented valuations, you know, these SAS companies, 20, 30, 40 times revenue, which hasn't happened since, since 99, 2000.”

“I think short, short sellers are an important part of the market. I go after one specific one who's like a, like short and distorted bad faith actor, who is like this end to a left fool, who is like just unbelievable, that guy. So I, this is just like, Hey, if…”

“I think the progress of AI applications in utility for society will go on a steady pace based on technical capability and entrepreneurial interest in it, not what Wall Street or investors think about it.”

“If you think about the type of funds and capital managers and people you deal with at a late stage growth startup, I mean, there's probably as much space to have that mental health conversation as there is on Wall Street in general, which is not a lot, right?”

“We told the street we're going to pull back on revenue growth, but we're going to improve our profit profile.”

“Knives were never sharper in terms of, you know, the politics, whether it's inside hedge funds or at the top of wall street, because the pie is big and people in those cultures want as much of the pie as they possibly can. And I just found that culture corrosi…”

“This is where Google got it wrong because asymptotically they couldn't achieve that alignment between the user that is you using Google and the shareholder. Wall Street loves it when Google puts more ads. You hate it.”

“We shouldn't be just comped to dating apps when they talk about kind of what the multiple on the stock should be. That we should be comped as much as to social network products and comps as much as we're comped to dating products.”

“If you're a founder and you like big teams and you like scaling, but you don't want to do the IPO, leaving 12 months before the IPO is the right time, right? The market's not going to be shocked, and you like scaling, you like people, you just don't want to de…”

“The current financial markets, they don't relate to a lot of people like, you know, trading stocks or options or futures, like people don't really understand them. And the game is sort of rigged. It's rigged on behalf of like for Wall Street against Main Stree…”

“When wall street lets you spend, it doesn't punish your stock. You should spend every dollar on the balance sheet. They'll let you because you'll build it back up, but it's trapped when growth slows”

“And also, they took the rare step of projecting 70% revenue growth for next fiscal year, ending Jan 20 28, way above the 44% street expected.”