Tech Founders

“I think everyone's out securing their bags before it all falls apart.”

“I think this is controversial. I think founders who burn all the money, I think that's not cool. I think it's kind of lame because why did they run out of money? Why didn't they just cut the bun? And obviously some founders fail because of some like black swan…”

“I think if you really want to be taken seriously, you need to show up looking serious with them. Because they have a lot of people coming at them, and again, earlier there was not many of these companies, so they kind of maybe thought it was cool. Today there'…”

“I think as you're describing, what's really clear to me is that the incentives between the leaders of companies and founders and their teams more broadly are about to take a big divergence.”

“You don't want to be marked as a supplier, because as soon as you're marked as a supplier, you're gone. Especially nowadays where there's a constant decline in trust for Any sort of online presence, and I think it's very, very important to, yeah, make sure tha…”

“This is my whole thesis on, like, why twenty-year-old, not usually very attractive men do so well, right? It's because, like, they have access to nothing else, right? And so they just do computer stuff.”

“Build your own distribution to avoid distortion, ok? That is to say, any content you have, it should be posted on your feeds. Why would you go and feed it to some journo? You've got some scoop. You don't need them for distribution anymore.”

“Nothing. I had founders start with an idea, and usually nothing else. Let's put off to the side a technical founder who may have come up with a fabulous algorithm that no one else has, but he still has to have an idea for it. What's he gonna do with it? What's…”

“You fit, like, all the characteristics of, like, successful founders that I have on the show. It's like, number one, made money early, number two, excelling gaming both very, very clear archetypes.”

“I'm obsessed with, and it's the biggest frustration for me, because our friends will make a lot of money, and they have no idea about these enlightenment values, and then they try to apply things to fix our society. That are completely missing the wisdom of wh…”

“So I felt like a boot off the throat. Like every morning I wake up happier than the day before because all of these forms of repression that I just had gotten used to. You're under this level of repression for this long. When it's relieved, it takes you a litt…”

“Every leader that you just referred to, every single one, when I'm right, and they're wrong, and I can convince them of that in whatever scenario, they understand that. They go, yeah, well, yeah, shut up. You're right. Stop. I got it. I got it.”

“And often this is the first time in a really long time that I've seen Certain founders come back and start coding again. You know, they'll have a multi-hundred person company and they'll get so enamored by what's happening that they'll just dive in.”

“It's just a sign of what you're focused on. And so when folks are really involved in the scene, in the drama, in the characters and are obsessed with the startup scene as opposed to their own thing and solving customer problems. That's usually a sign of like c…”

“I think tech founder sometimes has a, has an issue with only hiring technical people and believe that all the issues are technical. And I think for tech founders need to learn how to do marketing.”

“You know, tech founders have like a real apprehension about sales. There seems to be this point of view that we're all coin operated. We're all effectively like car sales people. Right. And that's just really not actually true.”

“If your happiness is tied up in your business, you're never going to be happy because it's nothing but problems, whether it's customer problems, whether it's Employee problems, whether it's just frustration, like, you've got to find happiness outside, and it's…”

“The kind of very special person who's going to conceive of an original idea and then be able to build a team and be able to prosecute the idea is going to be a very extreme person.”

“We need so much of that because a lot of the folks here, they are running large companies, but like, they've never run a thing. They're out of a dorm into their new dorm with kombucha and massage tables.”

“Well, I think either the tech founder lacks humility, and they're arrogant, and they only hire people that would be subservient to them, so they don't hire people that are daring enough, and they're going to challenge them and push them.”

“I think it's just that MBAs, because of their nature, may be more likely to fall into the spinning too much research time mistake as compared to a tech founder who's going to be more likely to jump right in and build something.”