Eugene Wei
person on 7 shows · 5 statements across 1 episodes · said 14 times in 10 episodes since 2018
Lenny's Podcast 4 
20VC 3 
Invest Like the Best 2 
Capital Allocators 2 
Another Podcast 1 
the a16z Podcast 1 
TBPN 1
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Lenny's Podcast 420VC 3Capital Allocators 2Invest Like the Best 2Another Podcast 1the a16z Podcast 1TBPN 1
2025 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2024 1 mention in 1 episode
2023 4 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2022 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2021 1 mention in 1 episode
2019 2 mentions in 1 episode
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Wei: An Amazon recruiter hired him after saving his unqualified cover letter
“I wrote a super long cover letter. This is the era before companies had computers just screening resumes, and I wrote this really long, impassioned cover letter, and a recruiter read it and said, well, he's obviously not qualified for this job, but this cover …”
Eugene Wei: Decision-making mediums dictate outcomes and must match decision type
“I've come to think that the process or medium you choose to make a decision actually can affect what decision you make, and so it's really important, in my opinion, to choose the right process and medium for the decision. And different processes lead to differ…”
Eugene Wei: The Feed Is Social Media's Most Consequential Architectural Choice
“The idea of the feed is probably the single most consequential architectural decision that we have in social media.”
Wei: Disrupt incumbents by directly inverting their primary core strength
“The way that you want to attack an incumbent is typically by going after their biggest strength and doing something that's the reverse of it because they derive most of their power and revenue from their biggest strength. It's also the thing that they're most …”