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“I think that we would happily take a bet on a product that doesn't have a quote unquote moat or durability story. If it has, you know, a lot of momentum, a lot of craft, a lot of, you know, sort of growing engagement.”

“We're, I don't think we'll touch audio for a very long time.”

“We are probably the largest provider of coding data to all the labs.”

“Those are the things that are being developed, and like we're working on some of these things as well”

“We have placed the largest bet in American history on the proposition that this country will win the next century of technology.”

“In practical terms, we are not the biggest dog at the party, and so we have to acknowledge that there's some strategic changes we have to make to stay relevant.”

“We are Totally transparent with our diligence issues and concerns, and we don't dance, like, we'll literally share it after the investment, like, here's the readout, here's what we heard, here's, you know, here are the really red flags.”

“We had probably like six people working on it at the time.”

“We've been able to essentially reconfigure Claude Cowork to do an outbound sales motion to property managers in the area, increase the number of bids out on a weekly basis and win rate.”

“You have to kind of commit to, we're gonna really care about what goes down through the old channels, or we're not gonna give them both. Sorry to use language. And we're just gonna, you know, say interesting things and flood the zone. And we're doing the latte…”

“One of the things we've never done, but has always been on the idealist is to actually just have an in-house bank.”

“18 is good. Like, you want like 90%. Anything less than 18, we won't touch.”

“There is a great gain We are seeing internally in extensibility of software using things like VibeCoding.”

“So there's about 17,000 cities in the U.S., and we have all the big ones outside of Manhattan at this point.”

“So we use a lot of startup, but again, I would say, We use them in a very tactical way to say, oh, you made a solution, we'll use it.”

“As we under have kind of underwritten future rounds of open AI or later rounds of open AI is very much, you know, with the mind of consumer.”

“Well, we spent about 750,000. A million. I keep working in pounds. Half a million. Half a billion pounds.”

“You know, if and when we get another chance, a lot of the things that he has burned down just aren't coming back the way they were. Why would we put him back the way they used to be if it was full of problems anyway?”

“I think we actually have the best financial system in the world. It's the most trusted, the most robust, the best regulatory environment for what it's worth as well.”

“Where China now has a bigger Navy than we have. Not a better Navy, but a bigger Navy.”

“And obviously, you know, we're very involved with EU Inc., which is this initiative to have one kind of single unified status and a super simple way for companies to expand across Europe. And I think that could be an absolute game changer.”

“I mean, we do something like 15 trillion requests every day”

“And so we currently don't have any AI researchers hired out in San Francisco.”

“If you're truly gonna have a breakthrough, you have to, Kind of get to something that the world doesn't understand that, that, that you see. And like, if we can see it, you know, like that, it's not a breakthrough.”

“We've now grown to over 1500 hospitals. We work with a lot of hospitals in the U S and the largest, you know, we work with the largest health systems, including Ascension and Trinity and HCA.”

“COVID was a metabolic health crisis. We were 16% of COVID deaths. And four percent of the world's population”

“We got three times the audience after they tried to cancel Chamath.”

“In fact, we can't, and why we buy uranium.”

“We grew from six million of ARR to 18 the year after, and then from 18 to 50, and 50 to 120, you know, in three years.”

“Strategically, we're focused on people who are like going to drive their own health journey, independent, not Without, but independent of the kind of clinical infrastructure”

“We export about 150 and sixty billion dollars worth of services IT services today also.”

“We're literally spending 10 to a hundred times more for the same old results, which is, becomes a problem.”

“We're not either long or short Google”

“There's a lot of uncertainty, but we've been more active than we've been since 2010 and 2011.”

“For a little tech we think Donald Trump is actually the right choice”

“Yeah, I mean, we are thinking, we are looking into, like automating partnership manager negotiations, because suddenly you can scale it up to a million partnerships managers.”

“We would have ended up, if I didn't do that, we would have ended up in a depression.”

“We've funded, of course, you know, portable nuclear energy.”

“We are a nonpartisan firm. We are 100% focused on tech politics and policy.”

“And then we're deploying a, you know, a really significant amount of money to basically pushing innovation forward, making, you know, getting to the right regulation on tech that preserves America's strength, and we are not only committed to doing that this ye…”

“I think we try to do both. And I, that's the way I think about it. And I think about it explicitly, like this is a heat seeking investment. This is a, Truffle hunting investment.”

“We're often creating one product per month, just as an experiment.”

“Guy from sneak we funded him three times before he got his A round done.”

“Really at the end of the day developers look at performance and latency. And so that's why we think that as a company, we need to be very much on the frontier if we want to be relevant.”

“Yeah, we don't use Corby because we decoded a very high pricing to us and like we decided not to use them.”

“We don't believe in the OpenAI plugins vision.”

“For instance, we sell to all the Tada Hotels, right? The Taj Hotels.”

“And so we are working and I know others are working to create competency signals, credentials, that if you do it, employers will recognize it.”

“The moment we realized that we can charge universities some marketing fee, we dropped a hundred percent of our cost to our students.”

“You know, we lost 85% of our volume overnight, and the business was already losing two billion dollars.”

“Because there's a good chance we could have avoided This disastrous war if we had just been willing to close NATO's door.”

“So the two things we said is we're never going to run our commitments faster than three years. And we want to make sure the vast majority of our companies have fully funded plans.”

“And that's actually a problem with being big. We can't really just try things. We have to license them first, which means we take the cost up front.”

“The fact of the matter is we never were willing to negotiate at all on those two demands at all.”

“I think there's a very high probability that we actually end up in a war with China.”

“We were offered the opportunity to trim our positions in secondary with our winners, ah, from people who wanted to buy secondary shares. I did it probably four out of five times.”

“And so, I mean, as I said, we are highly undercapitalized for the success of YC companies.”

“We do a lot of forecasting and calculated Breyer scores around like what are short, medium term endpoints that we can try to forecast and see how good we actually are at reading the market and measuring the market.”

“A year ago, we had zero customers”

“Yeah, I think in the next three months we'll be over a thousand.”