Technology Industry
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Varanasi: Most tech workers do not use the products they build
“I think another thing that I found very surprising, but then I'm pretty sure of is most people in technology don't use the products they help build.”
Ellison: The Silicon Valley Tech Industry Mirrors Fashion in Being Trend-Driven
“If you work in Silicon Valley long enough, you can't help but notice how much the technology industry resembles the women's clothing business. Both are fashion driven. Fashionable ideas are hot while others are not.”
Hays: Only Six-Month and 30-Year Timelines Matter in Tech
“In our industry, there's only sort of two timelines that matters. There's six months and 30 years.”
Horowitz: Biden administration was the worst for tech in his career
“It was probably the, I think Unarguably the worst four years in our career in terms of White House policy as it related to technology and, you know, probably to business more broadly.”
Jessica Lessin: Copyright law will bend toward tech in AI disputes
“You know, what I also look to, if you look at last time there were major changes to copyright law and the DMCA and carving out section two 30 exemptions where tech companies were not liable, the law has definitely continued to bend to the will of the technolog…”
Lochhead: The Company That Creates Category Languaging Wins
“The company that creates the languaging for the category wins.”
Luckey: Silicon Valley was the last to understand national security threats
“The technology industry prides itself on being the first to understand where things are heading, but on national security and the rise of our strategic adversaries, it was the last.”
Lütke: Tech should not reflexively impose complex equity instruments on employees
“For something as important as compensation, I think we should not press into service reflexively such highly financialized derivative, like, the instruments of enormous complexity and huge Variance of outcome without there being an agreement with, between both…”
Sloan: Ten million salespeople work in the technology industry alone
“There are ten million salespeople in the technology industry alone”
Bahat: Many financially successful tech industry icons are awful role models
“I think many of the heroes that we have set up in the technology industry are... Awful role models in that the heroes that we have set up are often the people who have been the most financially successful.”
McCullough: The technology industry is currently experiencing an innovation lull
“I actually think we're in a lull right now, if I'm being honest.”
Coleman: Tech hiring managers prioritize risk minimization over maximizing opportunity
“In technology that the average hiring manager is not trying to maximize the opportunity to try and minimize risk.”
Evans: Tech industry is evolving from utility to fulfilling consumer desires
“And I think the progression of the technology industry, I mean, one of the ways I describe this is sort of technology outgrowing tech, is that it moves from selling technology products To selling things that create, fill other desires or kind of other pleasure…”
Andreessen: Post-2009 tech growth represents real value, not a 1999-style bubble
“We think it's all for real. I mean, now, the other possibility of course is that I'm full of it and this is all like just a bunch of hot air and that like, you know, it, it's entirely possible this is 1999 all over again, and you're going to remember this meet…”