Technologists
topic on 8 shows · 13 statements across 13 episodes
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13 statements about Technologists, every show
Monk: Pension funds fail to explain their operations to technologists
“I don't think we do a great job of explaining to technologists what we do as pension funds.”
Casado: Academia and startups were silent during early AI regulatory debates
“But nobody was saying anything. You know, it's like academia was silent. The startups were silent. And if anything, like, The technologists were kind of supporting it.”
London: Non-tech small businesses are eager to talk to product builders
“You would be surprised how many people actually are excited to speak with technologists. Most people outside of Silicon Valley, like small businesses and real, you know, industry and people don't get to speak with technologists often that can build products.”
Sam Lessin: Pure technologists mistakenly view socioeconomic issues as tech problems
“People who, you know, went to Stanford and did CS and did no, have no economics real footing or sociology or things like that, the pure CS people, they think of all these things as pure technology problems, and they're not. They're actually economics problems …”
Simkin: Susquehanna employs more technologists than traders
“The greatest pool of employees that we have is not traders, it's technologists, because so much of what we do relies on good quality technology infrastructure and business infrastructure that our technologists are able to build out for us.”
Argenti: Pitching client technologists is as critical as pitching executives
“Like for example, some of the hedge funds or some of the quant funds, as you know, I mean, you know, it really, really well that, you know, we're talking to the technologist is just as important as talking to the business people.”
Caldwell: Silicon Valley founders often build cool tech before finding markets
“This happens a lot with technologists. That happens a lot with Silicon Valley, where they start with the technology I think is cool, and they try to find a market for it second.”
Rushkoff: Technologists treat technology as a new religion to meet unmet psychological needs
“Right now, oddly enough, I feel like our technologists, they're looking at technology to be that.”
Balaji: Technologists Seek a New Government, Not More or Less
“The Democrat wants more government, the Republican wants less government, the Libertarian wants no government, and the technological progressive technologist wants a new government. That's to say a new state, right?”
Barton: 'Beta' is a tech euphemism for releasing buggy products
“We figured we'd open it up as a beta, which was a cute way that technologists have of releasing buggy products.”
Thompson: Selling novel products requires making them familiar
“To sell something familiar, the key is to make it surprising, but to sell something surprising, the key is to make it familiar.”
Brynjolfsson: Smart contracts cannot cover every contingency due to world complexity
“One of the blinders that a lot of people, especially technologists have, is they say, hey, we can just write everything down to an engineering mindset. We'll write a complete contract that covers all contingencies. And the reality is, is the world is just too …”
Gil: Technologists are often better CEOs for technical products than business founders
“You know, I think if it's a very technical product it's often better to have the technologist in charge. So say that you had a business person and a technologist, because if it's two technologists, I don't know how to differentiate between, you know who they, …”