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Levchin: I focus on building business fundamentals over public market AI storytelling
“The storytelling hour of like, oh, by the way, we have this shiny item that we're so excited about, that feeds the voting machine. And I'm sure some of it is important, but I spent a lot more time feeding the weighing machine.”
Affirm maintains a postmortem repository covering all incidents since founding
“We literally have a postmortem depot where people can go and review every major or minor Nothing we did going back to the beginning of a firm time and learn from it.”
Levchin removed Affirm's stock ticker from his computer to maintain focus
“I've gone through some great lengths, by the way, to make sure I don't accidentally stumble on my ticker. So, you know, my Apple desktop, if I click in the top right corner and stocks drops down, I cannot see my stock ticker. So I don't accidentally discover t…”
Levchin: After two years reading AI papers, I'm nowhere near expert status
“I decided two years ago that I was just gonna read the attention paper and become an expert in LLMs, and, you know, just read all the papers after that, and I'm still in the process of getting anywhere near expertly status.”