Berman: WorkMoney scaled to nine million SMS members in five years
“Zero to nine million in, in five years basically is a pretty impressive number, and these are people who have a text relationship, an SMS relationship with not just people like nine million visitors to a website or, you know, an Instagram or something”
Hoffman: You will never become a billionaire unless you need to be
“You know, I said to Reid Hoffman once I don't need to be a billionaire. And then he smiled and said, then you won't be.”
Berman: VCs dismissing introspection ignore thousands of years of philosophical history
“We live in a world where at least one prominent VC believes that introspection is worthless and an indulgent product of the 1910 rather than timeless, going back to Socrates, to Plato, and even Jesus Christ himself.”
Host Jeff Berman: Apple, Nike, and the NFL are the hardest dealmakers
“The three hardest companies I've ever done deals with are Apple, Nike, and the National Football League. And I worked at the National Football League.”
Berman: Employees refusing to voice disagreement in meetings will be fired
“And I'll fire you if you do that here. The way we work is, you say it in the room, you push back, we have the argument Ultimately, I'm either gonna say, shoot, you're right. You're right. We should do it that way. I'm not sure that's interesting. Let's pull so…”
Berman: The best corporate boards are managed by founders, not vice versa
“The best boards are actually managed by the CEO and founders. The board isn't managing them.”
Berman: Liquid Death has no invention, succeeding solely on branding and packaging
“I mean, liquid death is a great example of this, right? It's water. It's water. There's no invention in this. It is entirely in the packaging and the marketing and the branding”
Masters of Scale will deploy and disclose Reid Hoffman's AI voice clone
“We are going to use it. And we are going to disclose it. Whether that's in the episode audio, the show notes, or some embedded metadata option that comes along, we don't yet know.”