Human Capital

“At the end of the day, every company is going to have both the human capital that is still going to be super valuable because humans and their ability to find the gaps that exist at all times is going to be the way we all will create value, right? I mean, so I…”

“Yeah, it should elevate the people who are tastemakers, who really understand the, their craft, to be able to do a lot more with their time, right? So they'll, they'll just be able to produce more, they'll be able to produce higher quality output, they'll, the…”

“All of these other revolutions have been human, have been capital goods that reduce the amount of human capital you need, whereas this is just creating human capital, right?”

“AI, like any other technology prior, provides leverage on human time, and therefore leverage on human capital. And when you get a higher ROI on capital, you generally have more capital flow in, not less. So people will invest more in people. They will pay more…”

“So me and Steve who's from DN Capital wrote the first checks at Sanus. ... No, initially we just wrote a 50 K check each. But then we helped them construct a five million dollar round. And then that's when we had general catalyst, quiet capital, human capital,…”

“Any middleman business right now that doesn't have its own competitive mode can be competed against. Because now you can take all of those input costs that go into human capital, you can defer that, have a much smaller human capital pool, and push all of that …”

“We do not have the full complement of business and worker skills to deploy. And until we do, we're going to be rate limited by human capital first.”

“It has been a stated strategy of all of big tech to use their balance sheets to buy small companies in their incipiency, to use her words, not because it helps advantage their monopoly, but it prevents the leakage of human capital Into other ideas, and it prev…”

“When you refer to a person as capital, you're basically thinking about them as property or as part of the process that helps you get to that profit or to that bottom line. You're not thinking about The heart, the soul, the brain that goes into it.”

“Most of the true innovation that's going to happen over the next 50 years will be technological in nature. And so at a very practical, pragmatic lens, you're going to need to hire product managers and engineers and designers, material scientists, chemists, bi…”

“So I'd been trying to build more long-term strategy within our pension plan, but those plans are long cash and short human capital, so it was difficult to get the origination capabilities that we needed And probably more importantly, the value creation and ass…”

“Human capital is the most unoptimized asset class we've ever had.”

“Where I see it fail, where you line up all the tax incentives, where you've got the public private partnerships, where you've got Everything just right, but it doesn't end up working tends to be a failure of human capital. You know, you don't actually have the…”