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Memon: Visual Polish Without Experiential Fidelity Simply Creates Gold-Plated Garbage
“Craft is not just visual polish. Visual polish helps you create a better poster. But it could just be gold-plated garbage at the end of the day.”
Slotowicz: 150 to 250 annual flight hours justifies private jet ownership
“Somewhere between a 150 hours a year to 250 hours a year is when you want to start thinking about owning a plane.”
Slotowicz: New generation of wealth prefers chartering over jet ownership
“And I think actually, like, that's one of the big differences in this new generation of wealth. These people don't want complexity. Most of them are able to book well in advance. They're not last minute people. They're, they are willing to book seven days in a…”
Slotowicz: There is no cheap or economical way to fly private
“I think, like, the truth is, like, flying private is not economical. There is no real economical way to do it. It's a very expensive thing, and it's really a matter of, like, priorities, and it's something that is important to you if you see, like, the utility…”
Kanye West entered a private jet cockpit to photograph co-pilot's shoes
“I had Kanye West fly with us and take a picture of my co-pilot's shoes. What? Walked into the cockpit and said, can I take a picture of your shoes?”
Slotowicz: Craft strictly refuses night flights into Aspen
“Aspen has its own unique, tricky set of constraints. We don't fly into Aspen at night. We won't do it.”
Slotowicz: Five Years Ago, SF Was Not in Craft's Top 10
“San Francisco is, I would say five years ago was probably not even in our top 10.”
Slotowicz: 90% of Craft private charter missions prefer no flight attendant
“90% of the missions we have, like, people prefer no flight attendant.”
Private jet clients prefer DoorDash and fast food over expensive catering
“Everybody just orders DoorDash. It's, like, way better. It is. You get, like, In-N-Out, or you get, like, Chick-fil-A, like, people just prefer that. Like, you, you'd be surprised if you think you're flying, you know, flying private is all about, like, you kno…”
Weinstein: Product craft is dessert after solving a burning problem
“And I think craft is kind of a. Dessert that you get after the meal of does your thing solve a real problem in the world? And are people clamoring, needing it badly?”
Ries: Founders fail when using craft to avoid customer feedback
“Where people get into trouble, I think, is when they want to use craft as an excuse to not get any feedback.”
Ries: Writing bad code for speed backfires via future firefighting
“Compromising that in the name of going fast is stupid, right? Like write crappy code. You spend more time firefighting than you do writing code in the future. So a certain amount of craft is just about keeping your options open. And actually it's very much lik…”
Ries: Respect for craft increases the necessity of testing everything else
“Having a respect for craft, for design, for perfection, that increases the need for experimentation and testing for all the other stuff.”
Batchu: Lead VCs share pre-diligenced deal flow with operators, not rival funds
“So I get deal flow from other investors all the time, especially ones that are like, you know, if Sequoia or craft or whoever are like, you know, we're leading this round. We're really excited about it. Do you want to be a part of it? That's great. Like a lot …”
Kortina: Immersing in craft silences overthinking and existential despair
“It's very meditative to like, one of the things that's awesome about writing software is you can just like go into this, you know, state where you're just, you spend 10 hours and you're like, whoa, that was so fun. It's like playing a video game, right? Or, I …”