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Weitzman: Google Hires Lack Hunger and Infest Startup Culture With Bad Habits
“Typically we found, this is my personal experience, when we hire folks from Google, they come from a place of a ton of abundance. So the hunger is not the same hunger. And you need to coach them out of essentially bad habits. And that can infest your culture i…”
Weitzman: Bay Area and NY Tech Workers Have Much Less Loyalty Than Europeans
“The other thing is, this is true in general of hiring in the Bay Area, the loyalty is a lot less high than you would get from hiring in Europe. Because in Europe, people really value a good company and a good job, and it's just not the same thing in New York o…”
Weitzman: Speechify favors older hires over younger engineers for AI coding
“I have a bent towards older hires. Because they read textbooks about software engineering When they see what's coming out of the LLM output, they understand it.”
Weitzman: Union Square Ventures has storied name but lacks strong leadership
“What I would do is I would join Union Square Ventures. I would join an institution that has a really storied name, but doesn't have particularly strong leadership. And I would become the leadership for that organization.”
Weitzman: Engineers who cannot orchestrate agents are not worth hiring
“They have to be able to orchestrate agents well, and if they're not doing that, It's kind of not worth to have the person.”
Weitzman: Alex Karp inflates Palantir's P/E ratio while Zuckerberg depresses Meta's
“What Meta doesn't have is what Palantir has, which Palantir has the Alex Karp effect. Alex is really good at pumping up the PE ratio of the stock, and Zuck, I agree, is the opposite.”
Cliff Weitzman: Meta is one of the most underrated stocks right now
“Yeah, I think Meta is one of the most underrated stocks right now.”
Weitzman: Meta is completely eating Snapchat's lunch
“I think they're overpaying creators, left, right, and center. And I just think that the lunch is completely eaten by meta at this point.”
Weitzman: OpenAI fumbled the AI coding space alongside voice
“LLMs are the core, and by the way, they also fumbled AI coding. Now they're trying to cache because it's such a big space.”
Weitzman: Seed-stage hiring is easier than ever, but growth-stage hiring is harder
“The competition for growth stage companies hiring exceptional leadership talent is more difficult. For seed companies, I would say it's the easiest time ever because the impact of even just the founder on their own is bigger because they can orchestrate agents…”
Weitzman: ChatGPT voice AI is too slow and uses a dumber model
“If you use voice AI from ChatGPT right now, It sucks. It's too slow. The LLM is much dumber than the core LLM. The escalation to the higher quality LLM is pretty weak.”
Cliff Weitzman: Mark Zuckerberg is the world's best acquirer
“Zuck also has proven that he is the number one acquirer in the world. Like, no one acquires as well as Meta.”
Weitzman: People under age 45 are unwilling to make phone calls
“And I think that at this point, like, people above 45 are willing to call, and below 45 are not, because everybody's like, that skill has atrophied.”
Weitzman: Live Streaming Is Now the Best Format for Content Creators
“Now, the best place to be a creator is to be a streamer. Partly because streams get clipped, and then those clips can get watched seven billion times in a week on TikTok and Instagram Reels and all these other places.”
Weitzman: Anthropic is running circles around OpenAI in coding
“Anthropic is running circles around them right now, like especially in the coding arena.”
Weitzman: Government should provide free smartphones as a basic human right
“So like, first of all, my personal opinion, the government should give a free Android to everybody who wants one. Like you should be able to go to the social security office and just get a phone. Like it's a basic human right at this point, in my opinion.”
Weitzman: ChatGPT effectively estimates body fat percentage and designs workout routines
“Take photos of yourself and upload them to ChatGPT. Ask it, what body fat percentage am I, and what do I need to improve? And it's so good at giving you information now. And then ask it for the workout routine to take the parts of your body that you think you …”
Weitzman: Agents is ElevenLabs' best product because buyers are C-suite executives
“Then they built their best product ever, which was agents. Agents is amazing because the buyer is no longer a software engineer. The buyer is a CTO, CIO, CEO, executive in the company.”
Weitzman: MrBeast Intuiting Organic Content Conversion Is Driven by Data
“Jimmy knows what's going to convert in organic content. He just like, he has the algorithm in his head and it's just data. Like he has spent between the age of the 13 and today just studying what converts and he just like his dialed in on human psychology is i…”