Governance

“Someone put it to me well, they said that, you know, the long term is really just a succession of short terms that you either survived or were not kicked out of. And actually I realized over time there isn't, at least in politics, maybe it's more broadly in bu…”

“I think a lot of data cataloging companies ended up focusing on, like, discoverability when perhaps, like, the real market opportunity was in governance.”

“In the enterprise, you almost have every time you think you have one use case, you really do, which is how do you make sure that the feature works well and there's governance of the feature, right? If you think about like even something as simple as sharing a …”

“If you want your organization to be trustworthy, the promises it makes, if you want to win the public's trust by making promises they can believe, you have to embody those promises in the structure of the organization itself, so that even if you weren't there,…”

“One of my main takeaways of that entire process is that it's always too early until it's too late.”

“The most important determinant of long-term success for any pool of capital is the quality of its governance. And that starts with the investment committee chair.”

“Too often people spend too much time preparing for board meetings where the real question is, is the right balance of cost to reward in governance and helping the company, right?”

“What you find out in a lot of these firms, what happened is individual people ended up making decisions and there were no governors around them. They just sort of all went, whether it's even the top person or they went in different directions and went the wron…”

“And in some ways, governance and human involvement is almost a bug. It's not a feature. You want these systems and networks to stand on their own two feet, almost as public utilities.”

“There's a lot of agreement over the fact that the governance part is actually the hardest part when it comes to solar geoengineering.”

“I guess the other observation about a good board, in my opinion, a good board member is that they understand their role in the process, and it's one of oversight. It's not one of execution and management. You know, their job is to make sure the organization is…”

“And without fail, that active-passive conversation inside a pension fund actually boils back to governance.”

“The other thing I would point out is there is an opportunity in a restructuring to hit the reset button. You have this moment in time where you can completely rethink governance and put in place best practices in terms of governance and executive compensation.…”

“And I have gotten raked over the coals a couple of times because people are like, why would you say that governance is the most important thing? And I'm like, guys, how can you build a portfolio without starting with governance? So it starts with an enterprise…”

“These problems have become replicated in crypto as well, and they are, therefore, like, fundamentally difficult problems that have been unsolved for millennia. So, so it's not as if crypto will solve any of that. It'll just have to figure out the right mechani…”

“But now really for the first time, the governance is actually built into the code”

“There's some things that I fundamentally believe just will not be completely decentralized governance being one of them.”

“I believe that governance is where most of the value is going to accrue in crypto at the end of the day, precisely because of what Kyle pointed out, features, functionality can be copied, and the thing that you can't copy is a community, and the thing that Kee…”

“If you have a Data catalog, which is really like a listing of all the data sets and attributes, dictionaries that are out there, without governance around it, it's just like a phone book. It doesn't do anything, it's not controlled, it doesn't work, it's gonna…”