Fidji Simo

“Fryer stopped reporting directly to Altman in August last year, and instead began reporting to Fiji Simo, who had joined as head of OpenAI's applications business”

“That's sort of why I've always Sort of had in the back of my head that I would not be shocked if Fiji Simo is eventually sort of overall CEO and they just sort of have Sam Altman there because he's a vital still obviously from a fundraise perspective from so…”

“This is from Wired. Fiji on the call said the company now plans to roll out its adult mode in the first quarter of twenty-twenty-six. Altman had previously indicated users over 18 would be allowed to have erotic conversations with ChatGPT.”

“Instacart would be a complete disaster if all the people running around as executives being founder mode. Like, you need them to, like, sign up for goals and hit them and turn cranks and take incredible joy out of hitting their metrics, right, so that you can …”

“I joined Instacart in 20, 21, and it was a very interesting time because the company had forex the year before.”

“I built a lot of my management tools before I got pregnant. And so, in fact, I feel like I have applied a lot of my management tools on my daughter rather than the other way around.”

“I spent my entire Thanksgiving weekend inventing a new product called Facebook Stores, which is very close to a product that we've launched recently called Facebook Shops, and I built all of the marketing materials around it.”

“Fundamentally you are not going to crack a hard Problem on a series of bad days. You're going to crack a whole problem when you're absolutely at your best as a leader. And therefore you are inspiring people to be at their best.”

“And a lot of the products that I launched, we went through, you know, four, five iterations of the product before we got the user need right.”

“Even at Facebook, when I was leading the Facebook app, you know, it's fundamentally 25 companies like wrapped into one.”

“When I end up having to dig into the details and It really means that this, one of these two things has broken down. Either I haven't really communicated the strategy in a way that empowers the team to make good decisions, or I just don't have the right people…”

“My chief of staff had come to the interview, having read everything about me, having already having a point of view on the things that I needed to change, the types of like challenges I would have. And you know, that totally convinced me way more than years of…”

“I don't think mentors are That's critical. I think sponsors are, and there's a very big difference there. I mean, mentors are the kind of people who sit down with you, have coffee, give you some really, really great advice, and kind of walk away. Sponsors are …”

“That's actually a kind of a big difference from my prior role, which was a lot more internally focused. This role is a lot more externally focused”

“And I think, you know, I went through this transition at Facebook when we went IPO and I had a great role model in Mark where, you know, his decision-making wasn't affected by being public. It was really all about how do we sell people best and how do we sell …”