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O'Driscoll: Anthropic's $30 Trillion TAM Target Is 'Delusional'
“I just say on Tropic and the Wall Street Journal, they believe their TAM is 30 trillion. And I, and then I say to myself, oh, I remember everyone when they're doing really well gets slightly delusional. Your time is, you know, the entire US GDP.”
Levchin: Explosive statements fade quickly, but rational people retain long memories
“Superficial statements, even explosive or Incendiary even, fall off the news line faster than you would expect them to. I think people's reputations recover and get managed and manipulated, and maybe it's true for companies too, but I think rational people hav…”
Manage crises by setting 30-day truth checks against external media narratives
“What you say to your team is, here's what the rest of the world misunderstands about the truth, and what you're reading in the Wall Street Journal, or what you're reading in any of these publications, Let's be really clear about what that version of the truth …”
Brown: There are no high-quality fintech blogs or newsletters
“There's nothing good on fintech, I gotta say. I mean, I read the Wall Street Journal, and Telus Demos usually hits a lot of the, but there's not a really good fintech one.”
The Wall Street Journal Has Shifted Away From Exclusive Reporting
“And I think the journal and other publications have broadened their focus away from that kind of journalism, but it's something that I've certainly taken from the journal”
O'Donnell: Bob Iger brought Ample Hills Creamery to Disney after ordering online
“I was having a conversation with Brian from Ample Hills Creamery, and he was sort of telling the story of how they wound up in, in Disney World, and they launched a retail location in Disney largely because the CEO of Disney, Bob Iger, Found them in a Wall Str…”