William Hockey
18 statements across 1 episodes · 6 bullish · 5 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Dec 3, 2022 by William Hockey · said 4 times in 2 episodes since 2019 · across every show →
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2022 1 mention in 1 episode
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Dec 3, 2022 bullish
Hockey: Column will slowly reach $100M ARR but can hit $10B-$100B long-term
“It's not gonna happen in my space. I'm a bit the slowest company to like ever get to a hundred million dollars an hour ever. But I think if we look at it from a 20, 30 year perspective, the ability for us to generate 10, fifty, hundred billion dollars, I think…”
Dec 3, 2022 negative
Hockey: Silicon Valley disguises mundane practical products with grandiose, world-changing language
“I think we definitely celebrate intellectual elitism for sure, right? I think we celebrate couching what is probably a pretty boring practical problem in like large language, gonna go change the world, but like, I don't know, maybe like building like an API fo…”
Dec 3, 2022 positive
Hockey: US dollar strength makes America's financial system the world's best
“The US has a massive, like the US has the dollar, right? Which is probably the strongest implement. And so that probably inherently bar none makes the US the best financial system, but it's really because of our currency.”
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Hockey: B-players are often better long-term fits than A-players
“Not every role needs that a plus player. Sometimes it's actually the opposite, right? If you get an a plus player and they're in a role, they're not going to be super happy. They want to move quickly. You can have attrition risk or they want new responsibiliti…”
Dec 3, 2022 positive
Hockey: Co-founding a company with a spouse creates perfectly aligned incentives
“I think the best thing is, or you have aligned incentives. I think incentives, you know, they, it's the kind of the cause for most of our decision-making framework. And when you start it with a spouse, you have perfectly aligned incentives. And I think that's …”
Dec 3, 2022 bullish
Hockey: Restricting legit crypto companies drives consumers to harmful black markets
“I'm probably a hopeless optimist, but I think what it shows is actually, if we don't allow the good players, like a Coinbase, et cetera, to move quickly and actually be able to innovate, those people, like those people are gonna go somewhere, right? People wan…”
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Dec 3, 2022 negative
Hockey: Fast hiring and execution speed are false goals for startups
“I do generally think that this desire for speed and this desire to, like, move quickly and hire a lot is a little bit of a false lie. I think companies can be built much more slowly than people think. As you look at value creation over a five to 10 year period…”
Dec 3, 2022 neutral
Dec 3, 2022 negative
Hockey: Building on traditional banks takes 9-18 months and limits features by 90%
“However, anytime you build in financial services, you have to build on top of the bank. And to do this right now, it takes nine, 1218 months. It's extremely painful. It's extremely expensive. And you can only probably ship 10% of the products that you want, ri…”
Dec 3, 2022 negative