Businesses

“Most businesses run three to one to one or worse.”

“I think businesses drift towards death quietly. They never run right into a wall on them. You always are kind of like moving your way towards it, but ignoring all the signs. And this checkpoint actually catches it early.”

“Therefore to a large extent in, in businesses, in, in real life applications, you're gonna see kind of the teams that are setting up the infrastructure Really rely also on those specialized models.”

“I can't predict the future. However, I can predict that there will be tons of businesses out there that are going to want an opinionated solution to help them solve real problems for the things that really matter to them.”

“It is very difficult for any company to get even one dollar from you. Very difficult. So the products and services that you're already using means that those are incredible businesses. And then look at, can multiple versions of that exist?”

“Now apply that to a business doing millions in revenue and have employees and to pay and all this stuff. Like it just, why would I want a vibe coded thing, you know, to save like an inconsequential, the downside risk is just way, way too high.”

“I think that there's a, there's just, you know, thousands and thousands of companies that are going to come and do this, set this up and there's opportunity for all of them.”

“Infrastructure is like one of those things that businesses are really bad at making, and it sucks that we committing businesses to have to build infrastructure of this thing because it just doesn't actually fit into the timescales. Like even the long-term focu…”

“I think there are already businesses and we're seeing this in industry where they can build faster than they can distribute. They can build faster than they can get customers.”

“One of the big trends is this 10 trillion dollars worth of these businesses that have to be sold, because baby boomers are retiring or passing away. There's two million that they own, so that's a massive trend.”

“For businesses, AI that just chats is useless.”

“And so then you look at AI agents, and I believe most businesses, it will be their primary digital interface, and it's because it works over WhatsApp, and it works over the phone.”

“And all these businesses are having to look at Maybe I have 50 processes internally that I think are my secret source and unique. Maybe only 20 of them are, but now I have to really consider which of those processes are actually unique and which are not, becau…”

“We've hit some capability that you can do, you can build these much bigger blocks now. And those bigger blocks are not just like the single line of code. It might actually be a business.”

“Businesses that received and accepted capital offers grew, on average, 27 percentage points faster over the following year than the otherwise equivalent businesses who didn't.”

“Most businesses never sell. Most businesses do not have an end date. They just close.”

“Today, most businesses have zero or one agent or AI integrated into their business. If that in the future, I'm sure that they're going to have hundreds of agents running within their business, and that unlocks an entirely new class of problems.”

“I mean, the reality for most businesses is they're never going to be big enough. They either have to sell the, to get liquidity, they have to sell the business because most of them can't go public. And how else can you get liquidity? Either, you're going to ei…”

“Businesses die exactly the same way. Slow deterioration that nobody notices because each day is only slightly worse than the day before.”

“Businesses, as we both know, tend to waste a lot more time than they do money. Those are generally interchangeable.”

“The Netherlands has 12,000 businesses waiting for an electricity connection.”

“I think there's, like, some sort of, like, power law distribution with, like, what social media does for businesses, where for most people having, like, a Social media feed that, like, looks nice. It's like, doesn't do anything. But if you actually have, like…”

“There was an MIT study that 95% Of businesses that are trying to implement AI aren't doing so profitable with profitability.”

“And the biggest mistakes that I see with businesses is not usually errors of judgment, but you just didn't really know what was going on in the organization.”

“Like businesses that show at least one relevant payment method beyond just cards see like a 12% increase in revenue and more than seven percent lifting conversion.”

“I mean, businesses is another way to invest, and businesses usually gives you much more cash flow than real estate does, but the business, in 99% of the cases, you gotta pay cash for the business. Real estate, you put five, 10, 15, 20% down, and the rest is th…”

“No matter how much anyone says AI is not going to be implemented into my business in order to remove humans. Yeah, no, you're wrong or you're lying because everyone, especially in this kind of a climate is going to fire people and look to replace them with hum…”

“If you're running a business or running a movement, like, you're just not gonna do it through the traditional method. You may still participate to some extent but you're gonna primarily tell your own story and you're gonna go direct and you're gonna have your …”

“Roughly three quarters of all businesses that have exit opportunities fail to exploit the exit opportunity well, or even at all, because they find out at that point that they weren't aligned on what counts as success.”

“Return to office has become like a scapegoat for businesses. Through a down cycle to basically blame everything that's going wrong. Like effectively, like if you're a bad business and things are going wrong, return offices scapegoat. If you're a good business …”

“Like the bulk of OpenAI's revenue, I believe will ultimately like come from businesses”

“And I think, you know, the businesses that you run also shape you as a person. It's not just the other way around.”

“The bulk of open AI's revenue, I believe will ultimately like come from businesses”

“It will become a really important component of making a business more productive, but it will be really hard to measure exactly how it does that in numbers.”

“Your businesses are going to be reflection of your ability to take care of yourself.”

“Try and use those three things in parallel, because I think what most businesses do is they try and do things in series and businesses borrow an awful lot from the kind of Ford is Taylor is production line mentality of the process. Okay. And the process, we …”

“Businesses have to actually make money, and so by 20, 22, a lot of businesses were rolling it back. They're saying, whoa, this stuff is terrible. This is not making life better for members of minorities. This is actually just turning everyone against everyone.…”

“There's like 11 times as much money that moves hands between businesses than moves hands between consumer and business in the global economy.”

“And by the way, this is the way that businesses typically die. It's not one spectacular implosion. It is cut by cut that slowly bleeds out of business, but because they are small cuts, you don't realize how big of a problem they are.”

“Businesses are inherently boring at some level, right? So you have to make sure that there's a 30% excitement, which is solving a new problem creating a product feature or one of those things. But 70% of it is just ops, right? Like doing the same job a little …”

“The real problem the vast majority of businesses out there have is that nobody cares, right? Like they have a wonderful product that could really improve people's lives, but people aren't using it.”

“Don't give things away and think that volume is going to help you. Like, you know, the pizza shop in the corner is not giving away pizzas for free.”

“I think that'll be, I think that's the entry point. I think businesses are probably the entry point as well as individuals who are going to seek out, you know, a better quality of care.”

“Which is the same formula that I think businesses should follow. Literally talk about most people start with a pain point. Most people start with building their company because some should happen to them or a friend of theirs or their kid. They saw something. …”

“That's a real risk because businesses have gotten caught with data that's five or 10 years old that violates laws, and that's data that they weren't really using anyway, which is kind of a tragedy to get suffer fines for data that you weren't really using.”

“Let's say the business is on a major downslope. You might get like one times profit. And so you're basically making a bet that it's going to die before a year, which very few businesses die that quickly. And so usually it's better off just to hold forever.”

“So I think that there's going to be these biological Patriot acts, unfortunately. And then the second thing that I'll say is that I do think that it will get litigated to the Supreme court. And I think that narrowly what will come down is that businesses will …”

“I mean, for businesses, you pretty much, it all comes down to the same tool, which is money. So if you're not spending money on it, you're not serious about it.”

“The barriers to creating businesses are enormous. And I thought businesses are one of the ways people can break the cycle of poverty. So is home ownership. And there's a big tie between the two. So if you can create a home or buy a home, you can leverage that …”

“One of the things we've tried to do is to break things up into six week periods. Because you can't really anticipate what the virus is going to do beyond a six week period. And so, and then trying to work out within that six week period, what do we think is go…”

“But it seems to me, you know, we could move a lot more away from right and left And in the direction of right and wrong, and businesses could do that without jeopardizing their commercial relationships.”

“The inbound from businesses, from organizations was up over 400%.”

“So if you do have that money, if you do, if we make sure that everyone gets 2000 dollars a month for the rest of this crisis, Then first of all, you prevent a lot of those businesses from failing that would otherwise have failed. You grow and stimulate these b…”

“So do I think right now there is an awful lot of, you know, amazing opportunities To buy businesses? No, I don't think so. I think typically they come later in the cycle, to be honest with you.”

“About 95% of all businesses in North America are in this size.”

“Today is at a point where the technologies are becoming mature, but the businesses are still quite nascent.”

“In businesses, whatever your business is, text is actually the thing you produce the most of.”

“I still don't believe that businesses have done much. In terms of putting data to work.”

“There needs to be financial privacy, especially in the case of businesses, right? One business doesn't want its competitor to see what it's paying or charging customers, and that's where Zcash comes in for that really commercial use.”

“We recently conducted a survey, this is like within the last four or five months, asking how many businesses really, really believe that customer centricity was really important, and it was about one in three.”