Speculation
topic on 5 shows · 5 statements across 5 episodes
American Optimist 
My First Million 
the Neon Show 
the a16z Podcast 
All-In
5 statements about Speculation, every show
Ross: Market speculation creates real business value by attracting top talent
“I think the funny thing about America is that we love speculation and speculation actually creates real value. People think of speculation as this bad thing, but in the case, in this case, we sort of got really lucky in that there was this meme stock moment fo…”
Tenev: Financial markets cannot function effectively without speculation
“And it's because speculation is just critical to the functioning of every financial market. You can't have a working market without speculation.”
Andrew Ross Sorkin: Innovation cannot occur without speculation
“There is no innovation without some speculation.”
Chopra: Investing should be boring; deriving joy from it is speculation
“I think investing should be the most boring thing that you should be doing. If you're trying to derive joy from investing, I think that is speculation and we should call it speculation and it's okay to speculate, but don't call it investing.”