Bureaucracy

“It's like, if I ask you to build something that you don't know how to build, it requires a ton of experimentation. But if you have a bean counter along the way, where every time you try and run an experiment, they're introducing three to five to 12 weeks of pr…”

“Frankly, if you look back at history, the only shit that ever worked, the things that helped us win all the wars, were the things that the heretics actually did. Nothing that went through the machine delivered anything. I think all change comes from these here…”

“The Democrats are really good. The left is really good at government. We, our side, is really good at raising families and building business, and so this happens every time that we're put into government. We have a team of people that have the best intentions,…”

“AI will, you know, unlock a lot of capacity and capabilities. So more smaller companies which got struck at 5000, few hundred people, today can actually grow, become Few hundred to few thousand people. I think they will create a lot of jobs while big companies…”

“Bureaucracy is a means of decentralizing care in a way that deemphasizes focus on an outcome. And so what happens is you care so much about every single step that there is no outcome.”

“And so I think that the reason why things have become so bureaucratic and bloated is that there is just this propensity to run towards software because you think it's a solution. At best, it's a symptomatic aid. It doesn't address the root cause, and in fact, …”

“Everybody has the ability to insert a friction. Nobody has the right or obligation or duty to go in there and remove the friction.”

“A lot of the true bureaucracy in companies comes from a lack of process or people can't get anything done and they don't know how it works”

“Larger companies, they tend to become their own worst enemies. It's not what the world does to them. It's what they do to themselves and introducing bureaucracy. In other words, undue process, you know, a lot of friction in terms of getting things done.”

“Essentially, we lose our way because we believe in a false choice. So most people believe that the pattern of organizational evolution is from chaos to bureaucracy.”

“We got accustomed to a very low risk environment. We have a culture of safety that has become all pervasive in most Western civilizations. We have a bureaucracy that's principle objective is to minimize risk.”

“We turned the keys in America over to bureaucrats and engineers 30 years ago. We, I mean, it's like, we basically pump all of the money and resources and time and affection and energy into bureaucracy, which is massively expanded, and to engineering and tech, …”

“Companies that know how to deal with the bureaucracy have an advantage over ones that have the best technology.”

“When you're scaling a company, Bureaucracy, which is bad process, creeps in each and every day, and to be able to have mechanisms that celebrate the destruction of bureaucracy that's just as important as things that celebrate frugality”