General Electric
also referred to as: ge
6 statements across 6 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Chris Dixon · said 55 times in 34 episodes since 2019 · across every show →
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brought up most by Alex Rampell (20), Steven Sinofsky (5), Eric Ries (3), Stephanie Cohen (2), Russ Fraden (2), Margit Wennmachers (2), Marc Andreessen (2), Benedict Evans (2)
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2025 8 mentions in 6 episodes 1 per episode
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2024 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2023 1 mention in 1 episode
2019 24 mentions in 20 episodes 1 per episode
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Everything said about General Electric, oldest first
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Kasireddy: GE's smart jet engines reduce aviation costs via automated maintenance
“GE with their aviation, they have the smart jet engines, which the mechanics don't need, don't even need to check the plane once it lands and that they just know if it needs maintenance or not. That saves a ton of time and ton of fuel and ton of just money for…”
Jan 2, 2019
May 25, 2023 positive
Nov 26, 2025 negative
Most executive business books are fancy resumes rather than practical guides
“Most books, like whoever the guy was from this and that, GE, whatever, they were all kind of fancy resumes and victory labs. They weren't really. Where you could learn something, particularly for our audience, that, like, it's so rough and tumble to be in a st…”
Dec 3, 2025
Rampell: Greenfield software success requires patient founders avoiding locked-in buyers
“When you look at Greenfield opportunities, you need two things to be true. You need the entrepreneur to be very, very patient and say, I'm not going to try to sell to everybody who's, if I'm starting a net new payroll company, I'm not going to try to sell to G…”