Codie Sanchez
Founder & CEO, Contrarian Thinking. On 5 shows, 168 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Codie Sanchez is the founder and CEO of Contrarian Thinking and Contrarian Thinking Capital. She previously worked at Goldman Sachs and Vanguard, and advocates for acquiring small, cash-flowing businesses.
5shows
168appearances
1,055statements
282resolved
146supported
73contradicted
52%fully supported
66said about them ↓ Everything Codie Sanchez said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Sanchez: Khosla backs open borders while suing to block public beach access
“He is going out there saying that we should have an open border when he has a private mansion on a beach trying to block public access to the beach for normal people, is in a lawsuit for like five or seven years while trying to say that we should have open bor…”
Sanchez: Anyone Saying Elon Musk Harms Economy Is Lying or Dumb
“Anyone who thinks he's bad for the economy is either lying or so dumb as to be irrelevant.”
Sanchez: Manifestation acts as anesthesia, draining the drive to do work
“So your brain books the fantasy as like a partial payment on the real thing. And it actually gives you the reward before you've done the work. So the drive to do the actual work drains out of you. Fascinating. So in other words, manifestation is actually anest…”
Sanchez: US Unemployment Is Racing Toward 10% or 20%
“I think America is racing towards a 10% unemployment rate, maybe 20.”
Sanchez: Crying at work guarantees you will stall in middle management
“I'm sorry to say this, but don't listen to anybody else who says, oh, you can cry if you want to. Oh, you can just say your truth out loud. Oh, it's fine. No, no, no, no. Those people will forever rent apartments and at most get to middle management. They will…”
Sanchez struggles to find women founders building sufficiently large businesses
“I actively look for women to invest in, and I have a really hard time finding women who are building big enough businesses.”
Sanchez: Mark Cuban is wrong that teaching business online proves it fails
“His clip basically said, if they're telling you about how to do it on the internet,
It doesn't work because if it worked, they'd just go do it.
And I thought that was so funny.
Sounds great.
Except it's wrong.
Because what actually happens is when you give mor…”
Sanchez: Men negotiate better, closing deals faster and on better terms
“I actually do see it First hand that men are better at negotiating than women, that men make more than women often, even with a similar skill set, that's partial negotiation, and that men, when they are in a deal, let's say arguing for a business to buy, they …”
Sanchez: Fired podcast vendor who refused to work on Joe Lonsdale episode
“So, Joe Lonsdale was gonna come on the show, and we had a vendor that was working on our podcast. They do some, what's called pre-production stuff, like come up with thumbnails or their interesting tidbits on the internet. And this young gentleman reached out,…”
Sanchez: Western Sanctions on Russia Ended Up Hurting Europe More
“We had a sanction on Russia and Europe that we thought was gonna hurt Russia, but actually ended up hurting Europe more.”
Sanchez: Balaji Srinivasan predicts 70% chance of economic crisis within two years
“His point here was, I'm concerned about the chance of a crisis, and so Balaji thinks there's a 10% chance of a crisis happening soon, a 70% chance in the next two years, which is scary because he's very smart.”
Sanchez: VCs repackage retirement homes as 'reimagined living' to raise millions
“I feel like this is what Venture has done since, you know, the last bull run of 2009 in Venture is they've been like, the thing is, We're reimagining the way that we live and what they're doing in actuality is retirement home, but for young people, but it's th…”
Sanchez: Grant Cardone's fundraising terms are one-sided against retail investors
“I looked at some of the fundraising docs on Grant Cardone's stuff, and I don't think it's that great for retail investors. I think it's pretty one-sided.”
Sanchez: Angel investing is dumb for 99.9% of people
“I think angel investing is dumb for your first dollars. You're going to lose 80% of your takes. So I still think angel investing is dumb for 99.9% of people. Don't play a game where you bet on other people's ability before you've bet enough on your own and sta…”
Sanchez: Tim Cook is purely a systems executive with no innovation
“And then obviously brought in people like Tim Cook, who are pure systems guys, no innovation.”
Sanchez: Working from home is a tragedy unless someone has made it
“I think it's a tragedy, actually. Unless you've made it. If you've made it, work from home, maybe.”
Sanchez: Remote human assistants deliver higher ROI than AI for her company
“I just told my team today that we found that hiring a remote assistant has a better ROI for my company than using AI.”
Sanchez: Ignoring Musk's lessons because you dislike him makes you an idiot
“If you don't like him, you know, Elon talks about the idiot test, but I think the other idiot test is, if you don't like Elon Musk, you're the idiot, because there's something to learn from him, no matter what.”
Sanchez: Many VC investors lack skin in the game and operating experience
“A lot of these investors are salaried investors. They got no skin in the game, and they've never actually run anything.”
Sanchez: Peter Thiel rejected Replit, saying it would never be big
“I remember when I told Peter Thiel that he should invest in the company and Peter said, it's never going to be a big company. This vibe coding thing is sort of ridiculous. And he put it in an email”
Sanchez: Harvard and Google credentials have almost zero correlation with job fit
“Resumes and history has so little correlation to good and a fit. There's almost no correlation. And it used to be that if you worked at some of these big companies, you're like, There's a pretty high indicator that you might continue to have like a certain out…”
Sanchez: Applicants must complete unpaid audition projects to prove authentic interest
“Now we make everybody do a creative project, and I don't like to pay people for it, not because of the expense. I don't like to pay people because I want to know how they feel about Doing work with us. Are they really interested? Or are they merely kind of cur…”
Sanchez: Naval Ravikant is mathematically wrong about not getting rich renting time
“He talks about how you know, you'll never get rich renting your time. And I actually don't agree with that. I mean, mathematically it's not true. Like Sheryl Sandberg, quite rich. Always been an employee.”
The other half of the tape: Codie Sanchez's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 36 times in 18 episodes across the shows. 30 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →
Who brings them up most Shaan Puri 10Greg Isenberg 8Sam Parr 4Tiago Forte 3James (The Boring Marketer) 2Charlie Hoehn 2Sophia Amoruso 1Sahil Bloom 1
Statements about Codie Sanchez, by other people (30)
Gary Vee: Financially supporting adult children signals they are losers
“Because parents don't realize if you're paying for your kid when they're a grown adult, you're telling your kid you don't believe in them. Through your actions, not your words. They know they're a loser. Yeah. That shit hurts. You know?”
Adelman: Scaling to $10 million is much harder than $100M to $1B
“That first 1,000,010 million are much harder than the hundred million to a billion.”
Brooks: Two-thirds of men prefer electric shocks over sitting in silence
“Two-thirds of the guys Would prefer to shock themselves painfully. One guy shocked himself a 190 times in 15 minutes, had to be thrown out of the experiment for being a sick and twisted freak.”
2 Chainz: Children should unashamedly leverage their parents' fame to get ahead
“I'm trying to get that in my little nepo babies. They don't want to say my name. Like, you should, Totally use my name to. To the best of your ability to get whatever you need.”
Senra: Marriages of the Greatest Entrepreneurs Are Typically Terrible
“Terrible. They're terrible. I mean, there's very few people because you tend to be obsessed. Like I also think like it's important to note. So the people that appear on founders podcasts, right? They were so good at their jobs that somebody wrote a book about …”
Vivian Tu: Couples Should Split Expenses Equitably Rather Than 50/50
“I think every couple should split things in an equitable fashion. That can be proportional. Doesn't have to be. That can be, oh, one partner just says, I'm gonna cover it all because you make so much less than me that I want you to save and invest your money.”
Bernstein: People lacking confidence should lower goals to match belief
“This isn't going to be something that you want to hear because it's a little off brand, but I would say change the goals because we don't want to be reaching for things that we don't believe in. If we have a goal that feels out of alignment with what we believ…”
Bernstein: Personal healing forces a partner to either do the work or separate
“In your self led energetic state, your partner has two choices. They can rise up to the occasion and get to work on their own, or they can stay stuck in their parts. And that's when a relationship choice is made. You know, is this, are we gonna grow together o…”
Poumpouras: Prioritizing personal dress over company culture isolates you from career opportunities
“When you do that, you make it about yourself. So what you're also saying is, I'm not a team player. I just care about me, and I dress for me, and I do me, and whoever likes me. And again, you can do that, but you will be isolating yourself from opportunities a…”
Perkins: Wealthy investors actively seek capable executors over ideas
“The money is easy. It's having an idea that you can execute on. There's tons of money. There's tons of rich guys that don't want to work. They just want to invest in somebody and make a good return.”
Manson: People develop progressive desensitization to fear and financial stakes over time
“But it's, I mean, it's like anything though, right? Like, I mean, it's, you, you've, you climb that ladder with money too, right? Like, it's like the first time you have a five figure deal, you're sweating bullets. You know, now it's like, You don't even, prob…”
Shift Conversations to the Future Tense to Neutralize Resentment
“One of the most powerful things you can do to make a conversation more productive, especially when there's been resentment and hurt in the past. Just focus on the grammatical tense of the conversation. Pain, resentment, frustration, judgment, all of that exist…”
Hussey: Intelligent women threaten men who date primarily for validation
“I think that's what happens is women's intelligence throws a lot of men off balance when they're already coming from a place of insecurity.”
Graziosi: Give failing business partnerships full attentiveness for 90 days before quitting
“What I always thought about is, what if you're in a relationship, you're not sure, like, should this be over? Business or personal? And you just treat it the next 90 days like the first 90 days. You were a little more respectful. You actually did active listen…”
Graziosi: Delegate low-rate tasks to reinvest time into high-earning core competencies
“Get somebody to do that, but replace that time immediately with the needle mover. And then as you get more and more in business, you get closer to the ring. There might be a time where Something's 300 dollars an hour, but you know you're making 3000 an hour, s…”
Fisher: Firing comebacks to insults escalates conflict until the last speaker loses
“When somebody is insulting you, where you lose, is you send the Zynga right back. So let's say you're at a three, and they send you something that puts you at a five. We have a choice. Do I rise to the level of it, or do I keep it there? Because if you rise to…”
Fisher: Complainers will not listen until they exhaust all grievances
“You have to let them get it all out or they're not going to listen to you, period.”
Levesque: I Reject Any Opportunity That Conflicts With My Five Values
“Cody, if there's something on my schedule that doesn't lie with one of those fives, a person, a place, a thing, a business opportunity, an investment, I'm just not doing it. I don't give a fuck. I'm not doing it. I'm just not doing it. It's, that's how stubbor…”
Alexander: Holding warm beverages causes people to perceive others as warmer
“There was research done with people holding a cold beverage versus holding a warm beverage. If those were holding, this is very clever. I mean, you guys didn't do this intentionally. But me holding a warm beverage Right now, based on the research, would cause …”
Dial: Pushing through six minutes of task anxiety unlocks focused flow states
“So all you have to do is fight through on average the first six minutes. And that's it. And you fight through those six minutes and your brain will actually start to become more focused. That's one of the most interesting things that I think is when we feel st…”
Dial: People only change when staying the same becomes more painful
“The only time that somebody will really make a change in their life is when the pain of staying the same is more painful than the pain of change.”
Van Edwards: Wiseman Study Shows Product Demonstrators Sell More Making Clumsy Mistakes
“There's studies on this where Dr. Richard Wiseman had a model try to sell a blender in a mall, ok? A blender. And he did two trials of this experiment. One where she did a demo of the blender. Hi, good morning folks. We're going to demo this blender for you. S…”
Voss: Summarize opponents' reality until they confirm it to resolve conflicts
“Summarize to how they see things until they say that's right. Because there's the underlying assumption of that is that your perception of reality is accurate. So while it may be accurate, it's always incomplete. There's no such thing as perfect information.”
Every mention by year
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My First Million 16
the Startup Ideas Podcast 16
Founder's Journal 2
the Knowledge Project 2
2025 5 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode
2024 14 mentions in 8 episodes 2 per episode
- 8 startup ideas backed by data/trends to get you paid (steal these $1M+/year ideas)
- Brainstorming $1M Business Ideas with Tiago Forte
- Charlie Hoehn: Write Something People Want to Read
- How to get 145k followers on LinkedIn in 1 year (it takes less than 1h/week)
- How I Went From Broke to $7 Million With An Airbnb Business
- The Simple Newsletter Making $20M+ A Year With 1 Employee
- 4 startup ideas using viral loops and memes to get you paid (steal these $1M+/year ideas)
- How To Find MILLION DOLLAR Business Ideas That WORK | Noah Kagan
- every mention in 2024, scene by scene →
2023 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2022 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Codie's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 BIGDEALLEDGER | Founder & CEO, Contrarian Thinkinghost | 158 | 898 | 52% 133/257 | full record on BigDeal → |
| FOUNDER'S JOURNALLEDGER | Founder & CEO, Contrarian Thinking | 6 | 57 | 33% 2/6 | full record on Founder's Journal → |
| KNOWLEDGE PROJECTLEDGER | Founder & CEO, Contrarian Thinking | 1 | 49 | 40% 2/5 | full record on the Knowledge Project → |
| MY FIRST MILLIONLEDGER | Founder & CEO, Contrarian Thinking | 2 | 34 | 70% 7/10 | full record on My First Million → |
| STARTUP IDEASLEDGER | Founder & CEO, Contrarian Thinking | 1 | 17 | 50% 2/4 | full record on the Startup Ideas Podcast → |