Thomas Edison

“Vin Mariani, the like testimonies in the Rolex parlance. Thomas Edison. Buffalo Bill Cody, United States President William McKinley, gets even better, Queen Victoria of England, and not one, but three consecutive popes in the Vatican. All swore by Vin Mariani.”

“Someone once said Bill wants people to think that he is Thomas Edison when he is really Rockefeller. If he was Edison, he would be less dangerous. He is utterly relentless. He is indefatigable. He is absolutely focused, and he wants it all.”

“And it's one of the things that, frankly, I anticipate doing. I don't know if I should do Thomas Edison. That's an interesting question. But I think I will do A discussion like that this calendar year.”

“Really, the way I think about a founder is like, you're developing skills that you can't hire for. You, you're going to hire for everything else, but you shouldn't be hireable.”

“Later on, he meets, like, a young Thomas Edison, because he's gonna wind up buying Thomas Edison's, one of Thomas Edison's first inventions, which is a way to send multiple messages across telegraph lines, and Thomas Edison thought Jay was just one of the weir…”

“The difference between him and the 20 other people who invented the light bulb around the same time is that he was prepared to put in the slog of testing 6000 different types of plant material before settling on Japanese bamboo for the filament of his light bu…”

“You rerun the tape without Sergey Brin meeting Larry Page, without Thomas Edison, and you still get light bulbs, you still get search engines.”

“Because a lot of visionaries from Thomas Edison through have lied at various points in time and have said things that weren't true in order to keep their employees and their investors believing in them so they can keep getting the money to fund their dreams.”

“Vision without execution is hallucination. And so it's a reminder that vision is important, but execution is more important. And that comes down to people and priorities and creating that team dynamic.”

“Thomas Edison invented the phonograph, and like literally they didn't quite know what it was going to be for, and they made a list of the use cases and applications. One thing is music was not on the list.”