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D 5 · C 5 · P 5 · Cm 4 4.85
Q No, absolutely. But I do want to talk about that kind of team inherent element there. Because, uh, I've got a question from Josh Ellman. So he asks, how do you view growing one's tribe and then growing together through all of your careers? Very much like you have done throughout yours, and I'm sure will do continue to with Greylock now.
A I got a piece of advice from a professor, like, right after I got out of school from Stanford. He said, look, you know, you should look around and figure out, like, who you want to be on your team. The people who have values that you believe in, people who have ethical and moral frameworks you believe in, the people who you just want and get energy from and want to work with. And look around and sort of start treating them well. Start spending time with them and going to breakfast and dinner and lunch and, like, just investing in those relationships. Because 20 years from now, you look around and, like, you'll be the fabric of Silicon Valley. And that was, I mean, really thoughtful and smart feedback. And, you know, sure enough, you know, 20 years after I got out of school in 95 is, you know, this was now. And you look and you have friends and leadership positions really across the, across the valley. And you collected people along the way. I mean, it shows up in tons and tons of ways. You know, one, one of the ways it showed up is that I went to a board meeting, um, a few years ago at telepart, which is my friend, Josh McFarlane's company. You know, I went to the board meeting cause my partner, James was on the board and I walked to the board meeting. I knew every person in the boardroom and I'd known each person for more than 10 years because Josh McFarlane, I knew when he wa…
AI assessment note: “investing in those relationships. Because 20 years from now, you look around”
Answered raw tape
D 5 · C 5 · P 5 · Cm 4 4.85
Q No, absolutely. But I do want to talk about that kind of team inherent element there. Because, uh, I've got a question from Josh Ellman. So he asks, how do you view growing one's tribe and then growing together through all of your careers? Very much like you have done throughout yours, and I'm sure will do continue to with Greylock now.
A I got a piece of advice from a professor, like, right after I got out of school from Stanford. He said, look, you know, you should look around and figure out, like, who you want to be on your team. The people who have values that you believe in, people who have ethical and moral frameworks you believe in, the people who you just want and get energy from and want to work with. And look around and sort of start treating them well. Start spending time with them and going to breakfast and dinner and lunch and, like, just investing in those relationships. Because 20 years from now, you look around and, like, you'll be the fabric of Silicon Valley. And that was, I mean, really thoughtful and smart feedback. And, you know, sure enough, you know, 20 years after I got out of school in 95 is, you know, this was now. And you look and you have friends and leadership positions really across the, across the valley. And you collected people along the way. I mean, it shows up in tons and tons of ways. You know, one, one of the ways it showed up is that I went to a board meeting, um, a few years ago at telepart, which is my friend, Josh McFarlane's company. You know, I went to the board meeting cause my partner, James was on the board and I walked to the board meeting. I knew every person in the boardroom and I'd known each person for more than 10 years because Josh McFarlane, I knew when he wa…
AI assessment note: “just investing in those relationships. Because 20 years from now, you look around”
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D 4 · C 4 · P 4 · Cm 3 3.85
Q Now, I, I'm just intrigued kind of, we said about the plateauing, but I want to be cheered up. So, so how does that then kind of lend to your thinking on a potential next boom? You said about potential positivity there, the potential next booming in mobile apps themselves brought about potentially by sensors in phones.
A Oh yeah. Right. So, I mean, if you look, Horace did you from a Simcoe has this beautiful chart of 1977 to now. And so if you imagine years on the bottom on the X axis and on the Y axis, it's logarithmic in terms of number of units shipped per year of different platforms. And you can see like this, the late seventies, early eighties were this jumble of things. And then, and then out pops the PC and the Mac that are basically a 10 to one ratio. And that, that climbs and climbs and climbs until the early nineties when it plateaus. And then it plateaus a lot like what it looks like in mobile today. And then a couple of years later, it starts to grow again, a secondary boom in call it the mid nineties, windows, 3.1, the windows, 95, that kind of thing came out and starts to enable more growth. And then it starts to plateau again in the late nineties. And then you'd say a tertiary boom. It's not as big as the other two booms, but it's big. And that's, that's the, when the web came out sort of the, and so we started to figure out how to use the web and, uh, into the, or 2002 1001, that kind of timeframe. And so, But now, you and you play forward, you can start to see, in in in,, in in in in in in in,, in in in, in, in,,, in in in,, in in, in, in in in,, in,, in, in in in in in in in in, I know that I am on my phone kind of all the time, embarrassingly often, but you know, that's not r…
AI assessment note: “a couple of years later, it starts to grow again, a secondary boom”
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D 3 · C 3 · P 4 · Cm 3 3.25
Q Now, I, I'm just intrigued kind of, we said about the plateauing, but I want to be cheered up. So, so how does that then kind of lend to your thinking on a potential next boom? You said about potential positivity there, the potential next booming in mobile apps themselves brought about potentially by sensors in phones.
A Oh yeah. Right. So, I mean, if you look, Horace did you from a Simcoe has this beautiful chart of 1977 to now. And so if you imagine years on the bottom on the X axis and on the Y axis, it's logarithmic in terms of number of units shipped per year of different platforms. And you can see like this, the late seventies, early eighties were this jumble of things. And then, and then out pops the PC and the Mac that are basically a 10 to one ratio. And that, that climbs and climbs and climbs until the early nineties when it plateaus. And then it plateaus a lot like what it looks like in mobile today. And then a couple of years later, it starts to grow again, a secondary boom in call it the mid nineties, windows, 3.1, the windows, 95, that kind of thing came out and starts to enable more growth. And then it starts to plateau again in the late nineties. And then you'd say a tertiary boom. It's not as big as the other two booms, but it's big. And that's, that's the, when the web came out sort of the, and so we started to figure out how to use the web and, uh, into the, or 2002 1001, that kind of timeframe. And so, But now, you and you play forward, you can start to see, in in in,, in in in in in in in,, in in in, in, in,,, in in in,, in in, in, in in in,, in,, in, in in in in in in in in, I know that I am on my phone kind of all the time, embarrassingly often, but you know, that's not r…
AI assessment note: “starts to grow again, a secondary boom... society takes a little time to digest stuff”
