Tech Industry

“This is the era of bag securing. Everyone is trying to get their bag right now, and whether that's like a big amount of private capital, or selling your company, or whatever, everyone is in a desperate, it feels like musical chairs. We're in a musical chairs e…”

“Yeah, I think our industry did a shitty job of engaging the community properly.”

“I think the industry made a mistake in the beginning of these fights, focusing on the jobs that were going to be created, building them, because as important as they are, they're kind of temporary.”

“We've really seen the tech industry kind of come to the side of free speech in ways that it hadn't before, Catalyzed significantly by Elon's purchase of X”

“I think it's the latter today because the former is still yet to take full effect at most companies”

“I think that the Travis Kalanick mindset has been missing totally when he kind of left. There was, there's been a Travis sized hole in the industry, in the culture.”

“They were in the mid-eighties, they were 80% of the market capitalization of the entire tech industry, right? There's nothing even close to that.”

“I will say I've never seen The perception of the truth be further from the truth industry-wide ever. Like, I guarantee you for any of these gossipy things, I guarantee you it's way off. Way, way off.”

“And I think there's so many, especially in the tech industry, where they're just They're personality deficient.”

“My biggest political loser of 2026 is the tech industry.”

“This idea that within a couple years, the current AI technology will turn into artificial general intelligence or super intelligence”

“If SVB would not have been bailed out by the government in, in, in, You know, like, it wasn't just, like, the government's obligations. They were bailing out well beyond FDIC limits. If they wouldn't have done that, it probably would have wiped out half the te…”

“About every 10 years or so, something comes along and just completely expands the opportunity set for the industry.”

“There is a trend where, if you go to the absolute cutting edge of tech, they're so sort of wilderness people that they don't have the conscientiousness. They, you know, go flying instead of turning up to the meetings. And it's almost like you get a second gene…”

“We're very honored for the tech industry to be the first one that you've brought to do a Rose Garden dinner.”

“For the tech industry, the R&D. Treatment where you can depreciate R&D now in the same year instead of spreading it out over 30 years.”

“I think, I hope it's not the case, but I think there might be more fracturing in the months ahead.”

“I think that the people in the room there, it was remarkable, even though A lot of these companies are competing with each other. They were largely on the same page with respect to what was happening in the economy, in the world, and with the kind of support t…”

“We're in a field where the number of runs you get for hitting a home run in baseball isn't one. If you slug it out of the stadium, you can make a million runs, not just one run. And so, at bats really matter. At bats really matter, and you don't want base hits…”

“One of them is the traditional media just turned on tech and it hates tech.”

“After the 2012 election, right after Obama's inauguration, you can date it to right after that, because even in 2012, like, New York media and so on was saying there's no such thing as a brogrammer, ok? You can google that article. So 20 12, tech was part of t…”

“The journals only get traffic for their articles when they get rage views from us.”

“I don't think MAGA can exist successfully without the tech alignment. I don't think tech can exist without MAGA because of the government alignment and the importance of the government allowing these new technologies like AI to come to market and to proliferat…”

“And I do think that both sides have heads that are going to be cooler that will prevail here. And I do think that these two are going to recognize the importance of being codependent, if you will, in being able to progress their respective agendas.”

“I don't think it's five years to Rory said, I think it's, I think by the middle of next year in tech, almost every single person's job will have changed by the middle of next year.”

“Having spent 30 years in tech, we never used more than one percent of the nation's electrical production.”

“So the tech industry will spend more on power generation than the power generation industry, because the power generation industry in the US is largely regulated, slow moving, crawling along, you know, have broken markets.”

“I think we've actually gotten much better in the last couple of years at separating storytelling from just charlatan bullshit. And like, there was a period when we weren't like, we were not very good at that. Probably, you know, late, late twenties, early twen…”

“And the tech industry will be the natural place to target. It's our best industry, our best companies. And if you wanted to retaliate against America, that would be the place to hit.”

“If you look, you know, backdrop, we're in a second cold war during the first court war, we won because of our technological industrial prowess and government was a huge partner to the tech industry and really was helped fund the beginnings of the tech industry…”

“For decades, it was very taboo to say you were building only for one country. Tech was by its nature global.”

“I mean, in the, I would say, in the tech industry, you would expect 20%.”

“If we don't get loud about feminine energy, I think, you know, this industry also is gonna, like, take a turn in the wrong direction.”

“And the thing about tech that's interesting is, is it doesn't matter, like, a lot of the most successful people in tech were born far from the golden land of California, and totally made the effort to move here. And so, it doesn't, you know, being born here, m…”

“And yeah, the tech industry hadn't learned to like circle the wagons at all. And so there was just, it was just complete, complete scapegoating and then just ostracization. And you just became an apostate very quickly for doing anything like this.”

“I think overall tech cares less about inclusion and being representative than it did two years ago.”

“Politics in the last four years have had a much bigger impact on, on the tech industry than, Certainly any other period in my life.”

“The product owner role was the third fastest growing role in tech. And this was just in the U S the data I was looking at, but I think it's probably true broadly.”

“If you take responsibility for things, because you think it's a corporate crisis, not a political crisis and your view is like, okay, I'm, like, I'm gonna take responsibility for all this stuff. Like, and people are basically, like, blaming social media and th…”

“Picking the right company and project will be like by far picking the right market to be in the, and then the winner of that market. If you're in the tech industry, Is by far the most impactful thing you could do in your, like, career. It'll, it'll beat your h…”

“When you're in a tech, tech industry, you could be too early, you could be too late. So, and both are equally dangerous. Too late, you'll be too slow in the market in terms of growth. Your growth will be too expensive. Too early, you'll never grow. And like ev…”

“Now the problem is, is like, there, it's very hard to build mafias because there's just too much going on. Like, there are too many good places for talent to go. It's not concentrated the same way”

“Now it's the standard. Now it's the standard.”

“The tech industry has all this knowledge and tools and goals about technology and how it affects your brain and it affects children's brain more that way because of, you know, they're not as developed. And parents have none of it right now. It's a really, real…”

“When you're in tech it's if you're relentless, you don't have to work with mediocre people, but in the events industry, almost everyone's terrible, literally terrible.”

“And I think in some ways our industry would be much better off if there were fewer founders. I think in some ways the, I use the entire category of smart, creative, hardworking, talented, you know, borderline visionary people who Can raise that two million dol…”

“I was paying attention to what was happening in tech, and the fact that so many of these products were being used by women, but women weren't sitting around the table.”

“It's because I think as an industry, we've all kind of assumed that all profitability comes at the expense of growth, and that all growth is actually good quality, that it is worth pursuing. I'm here to debunk this fallacy for you.”

“On the other side of this kind of change, typically what happens is a much larger industry with like way more employment, way more output. And I, I'm a hundred percent convinced that's what's going to happen for sure in the tech industry and for sure in, in, i…”

“I think everyone in tech is somewhat like just injured from the past, like for sure. It's very obvious of just getting like, just beat down for every little thing. And so a lot of people have put up walls and I think that it's time. I agree with you. I think i…”

“I think all the indicators show that the amount of innovation that is going to happen in the next five years will eclipse the amount of innovation that happened in the last 20 years.”

“But if you are trying to get your start and you're trying to break in, I think you find, or you try and narrow in on what you're looking for a bit first, rather than the broad, I want to break into tech, but like what sector do you want to be an engineer? Do y…”

“A lot of the people I am opposing, at least rhetorically on these AI issues are actually people in the tech industry who are showing up in Washington asking for various kinds of things that I think would be, you know, horrifically destructive.”

“This is all public. We published this, but if you look at tech, it's down about 50% year over year.”

“There's so few ways to have a good exit in the tech industry that when you take away M&A. It puts a damper on all risk taking and the deployment of risk capital into the ecosystem.”

“Back in 2013 in tech, growth was kind of like this dirty word and revenue was a dirty word. And so we were like, oh, a good product should sell itself.”

“The tech industry is gonna regret buying into this narrative because the members of the judiciary committee are doing the same playbook they ran back in 2016.”

“The last business cycle, the boom time, the low interest rate environment went on for a pretty historically long time. So there's a lot of people. In the workforce, for example. Who have never seen a high interest rate environment in their career. And that cre…”

“Anybody who tells you they know what's gonna happen next with the media or with professional services firms or in the tech industry or the insurance industry or whatever, like, those people are delusional. We don't know what's gonna happen next.”

“The average tenure of a manager in tech right now is about 15.7 months.”