Mark

“Mark is one of the rare leaders that actually is in a position as a founder at a trillion dollar scale, who already has all the people on his platform who can try to tell the light side of the story”

“The principles here, Mark and Ben included had been served by more traditional wealth management firms. And they looked to the LPs of A-sixteen Z and saw, you know, the big sovereign wealth funds, the big pensions have very high end professional investment tea…”

“I think when Mark was on, he said they have about a point of anthropic going into this round, if I remember correctly.”

“And Mark's got 2000 folks doing this at Salesforce now.”

“Mark knows everything that's going on in the company, but Ben operates it, and Mark's very comfortable with that.”

“Very few people follow the A-sixteen Z Twitter handle compared to, like, or the X handle versus who follows Mark, or who follows Chris Dixon, or who follows you, or who follows me.”

“The very best CEOs, and I put people like Barton and Vinny off in there. Even Mark at Meta has said this. They believe being public makes them run sharper. And one other negative of these companies staying private forever is they're not getting that feedback.”

“One of the things that, that Mark and I used to do a lot in the early days was Basically try and convince the entrepreneur to do what we wanted. And then if they did that, we would not invest because they didn't, you know, they're coming in with their beliefs.”

“I think Mark's taking the opportunity here to return to his original values to some extent.”

“Politically, I'm very surprised to find Mark on bended knee at this moment.”

“Mark, who's now running a over a hundred million dollar revenue business called Go Bold. He had a one 800 line for like, you know, kind of problems, right? 24 seven. He's the one answering it. He's picking up at two in the morning.”

“Many of their most popular products were copycats of other products that were succeeding. Yet simultaneously, if you look at the red book, he has had this sort of like decades long vision for his company that only a generational ideas guy could actually have. …”

“And Mark has said so much in so many words to you and me personally that he's not optimizing for financial outcome here. He's optimizing for impact.”

“Mark was actually two for three on, he was forecasting, like, in 2015, what are we gonna Be focused on 10 years from now. That was one of them. Or the other two were augmented reality and AI.”

“I said to Larch again, like I really wanted that job. And he said, not only will I not give you that job, you know, I'll, you'll never have that job at this company.”

“It seems like Meta is performing really well, right? Like, it seems like they've got, you know, their ass in gear on a lot of stuff, not everything, but like a lot of stuff, you know, post COVID and like, you know, Mark set a tone and the organization set a to…”

“Meta and Mark are both underappreciated. Like, incredibly underappreciated.”

“Mark's ability to understand risk adequately is just probably unparalleled in business history.”

“If you're a closed model company, the question first is, okay, I'm going to have to compete and keep up with this frontier level competition. That's hard enough. It takes a lot of resources, but number two, Mark's going to give it away. You know, meta is going…”

“As, like, Mark announced, we have more and more GPUs, so the next generation will be bigger.”

“Salesforce, by the way, doesn't need three X more pipeline. They need a better conversion. Just advice to Mark.”

“I think the pendulum is thrown so far, and there's a point now where the quiet middle start, finally starting to speak up, because it's affecting the quality of their life on a massive scale.”

“One of the things Flo is doing, which also was an encouragement for Mark early on, we are the property manager. We are the technology. We are the brand. We're the payments company. Very important because we said it's 34% of our residents' full income wallet sp…”

“I think it might've been my second or third day at Corriente and Mark just told me to whack up the phone and buy two billion dollars of notional Greek protection, which was somewhere around five or six basis points over Germany at the time.”

“Like Mark didn't start Facebook. I'm going to be a billionaire. It's like, ah, let me see if I can meet some chicks online. If we're honest. Right. And I worked for him. So I know that stuff.”

“These are all folks that we've all been close with and partnered with in the past, Mark's an LP.”

“Archer, Mark and I came in sub a hundred million dollars. Mark was a big, big investor there. I came in a little bit later and we took Archer from a hundred million dollars and it went public at 3.6 billion. And all this happened in less than two years.”

“We are decidedly not a consensus organization, so When we started, and Mark and Ben have been very true to this over time, is we said, look, we worry that if you go around the table and you ask people to vote, you end up with reversion to the mean type thinkin…”

“I'd say to Mark was on my board. I'd say, Mark, look, if you need to fire me, You don't even have to sit me down and tell me I'm fired. You just, like, tap me on the shoulder and, like, we don't have the conversation. Like, I'm done. If you think I'm not the b…”

“Clearly both Larry and Sergey and then Mark did a good job of truly empowering really, really smart people, because you cannot keep really smart people if you kind of just tell them what to do.”