Large Companies

“I think you have to assume that if you're a big, large company that's not AI native, you're doing a turnaround to some degree.”

“So alignment won't go away. It's just, it's not going to have as much theatrics. And I think a lot of companies that are larger do have theatrics that I think the eyes are going to remove.”

“Essentially, every large company is overstaffed. It's at least overstaffed by 25%. I think most large companies are overstaffed by 50%. I think a lot of them are overstaffed by 75%.”

“And now they all have the silver bullet excuse, right? Ah, it's AI. Right, and I know this for a fact, because number one, I talk to them, but number two, I know this for a fact, because AI until, like, literally until, like, December, right, was not actually …”

“Maybe 10 or 15% of large companies have really figured this out. And the rest of them are kind of fumbling around.”

“What most people think in large companies is large companies don't experiment. That is in fact, not true. Large companies experiment a lot. What large companies don't do is when an experiment works, They don't go all in and double down. They try to keep hedgin…”

“If you have never taken something from zero to one and you've only ever actually worked in large companies, Then you are at a disadvantage in trying to navigate the early years of your own company. It's just way harder to know what good looks like.”

“So I'm not sure I really buy in the next couple of years, you will see people in large companies actually just working half as much”

“I thought that large companies can do a lot And so startups, the startup will fail, that startup will fail, and that was a stupid mistake that I did for many companies. I think large companies move at their own pace, and that's why entrepreneurial energy is im…”

“I think large companies are very good with running many experiments. What they're bad at is doubling down on an experiment works.”

“And almost certainly, most of this won't be done by large companies.”

“These companies have an incumbency of sorts, right? They have data, they have customers, they have brands, they have IP, et cetera. But if they don't move quickly to re-imagine their businesses, given all this technology, they will be destroyed by new companie…”

“Slowness is the special defect of large companies and a cause of their ruin.”

“Realistically, I think most companies large companies take like 12 to 24 months to respond to Competitive threats in the market.”

“And that actually is a feature, not a bug. Like part of the benefit you have is take this AI revolution we're in. Like it's because you have these large companies that can invest in multi-year risky projects that can create things that are massively valuable f…”

“I think one of the biggest challenges with local is that you have to go really deep into neighborhoods and into cities to build a useful product in local. And it is very difficult to go deep and Broad at the same time, it can be like boiling the ocean. And I t…”

“We saw no statistical significance between Small companies and large companies, the only statistical significant, statistically significant difference was with retail.”

“I think this is a knock on, I think sometimes folks have only worked at large companies is you have so much tailwind, you have so much momentum, you're so much distribution. You don't learn how to manufacture that from scratch, or you don't know how to turn th…”

“I mean, I think just like large companies have concerns around like launching products that can say anything. I mean, it's probably just a matter of like I w I would guess it's just like a matter of how much you're risking versus how much you have to gain from…”

“So actually these large companies for, since a few years ago, since actually five years ago, they have people in the company who are basically tasked with finding startups, which can up their game.”

“It is very hard even for large companies to understand that behavior that would be That would be condoned when they were a small player is in fact illegal once you become a monopoly. Companies like, especially people that have been in the same company for 15 y…”

“So estimated in, like, this year, over a hundred billion dollars will be invested in cybersecurity from large companies.”

“In a very large company, they're, they, they're hired to run the existing playbook, rather than do a transformation and build the playbook. And so, if you're hiring somebody who only worked at large companies one, they can make a great hire, but be careful and…”

“And more often than not, that big deal that you're going to do kills you. And you almost never want to do it. You should almost always walk away.”

“There may be a power shift happening from on the one hand, large companies to small and medium companies that can now more aggressively adopt technology faster. And then from companies in the U S and Western Europe to companies all over the world that can also…”

“And increasingly, they're not coming from the large companies improving their business. They're coming from the startups that are really working really hard to take a set of values and to honor those and execute those every day with every customer.”

“And those are exactly the kind of ways how large companies slow down. Because on the name of efficiency, they create a massive dependency graph, which is invisible but slows everything down.”

“So what I'm saying is that with globalization, with the internet, for large companies, it blurs the lines of what is a Chinese company or what is a U.S. Company. These companies in the long run are all going to be global companies.”

“I would say most companies, while they may begin thinking this is core to their business in terms of developing some of the drone technology, really realize this is context for them, and it's best for them to partner with a company who really brings that aeria…”