Davos

“I am now on record as a fan of the boondoggle known as Davos. Because I did a shit ton of business there this year. So I am like, I was so productive in those three days. That I said, I helped so many parts of my team by being there for three days.”

“And so at Davos a few weeks ago, I think both Demis and Dario said some variation of, yeah, like if we were the only two groups building this technology, We would find a way to get together and figure out how to slow down this frantic pace. Like it's going too…”

“The things I walked away from Davos with is that the last time I was there in 99, it was about e-commerce, and the U.S. Brand was capitalism consumption and Bill Clinton. Now it's about AI. Everyone was talking about AI, and it's about the American brand is ch…”

“I probably met 20 odd CEOs, CIOs, lots of partners. And my sort of SOPs, standard operating procedure for each of these meetings would be, I would ask our sales agent for information about the customer. What's the state of our relationship with? Take your pick…”

“There is another element where, you know, Davos is sort of a non-defense oriented. They don't like you to talk about defense here.”

“Davos makes half a billion dollars a year in revenue. It's a non-profit, an NGO, a think tank”

“I don't know how relevant Davos is now versus it was five years ago. I think Davos is becoming less relevant as an organization in itself, but you do see chief ministers competing there.”

“We have, you know, more elected reps that go there than attend Davos.”

“I think it's a counter indicator now.”

“Mark Benioff has been going for 15 years. And, you know, he, I didn't understand why for a while. He's like, I sit at the top of this one. He said, Mark Benioff said, I sit at the top of this one staircase. And I just meet a hundred customers in person. It's t…”

“Last year, everyone at Davos was talking about AGI. This year, no one at Davos was talking about AGI.”

“Davos, you know, at the World Economic Forum, a third of the businesses there were saying that they have suffered financial impact from significant cyber threats in the last 12 months.”

“It's been a slow unraveling from this being something that people used to flex about going to Davos. Now people are literally apologizing on social media, ex Twitter, et cetera, explaining why they're going because they're kind of feeling shame and going to th…”

“What is it probably more than anything else now? A glorified enterprise software sales conference, where the reason to go to these conferences for a lot of these companies, I suspect, is that it allows you to close very big deals.”

“Nobody building anything really gives a shit about Davos. Nobody is thinking what's going on. Nobody even knows when it happens.”

“We received an invitation from Davos and I think it was the year, And we all just trashed the invitation thinking it was an invitation from the University of Davies, not understanding the import of this invitation. And it's funny. And if you think about that, …”

“I think a big misconception about Davos is is, you know, there's all, The plutocrats and all the wealth and power that's here. But the people who come here they really do seem sincerely interested in changing the world to make it better.”

“You may have seen that Davos, ah, you know, recently they decided that data was a new asset class.”