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)
Abdaal: Default mode network activation is vital for business creativity
“Especially if you're in anything creative, which all businesses to some degree, actually having that time for rest, having that time to allow the default mode network in the brain to Activate, which is what happens when you're doing nothing, or when you're in …”
Sam Parr: Viral Cuts hit seven-figure revenue in 60 days via Twitter.
“It got to seven figures in revenue in like, 60 days. Most of which came because at first I tweeted it and then Cody Sanchez, another partner involved, she started sharing and so now it's like well into the seven figures.”
Hussey: Prioritizing truth over being right allows couples to evolve together
“If I instead say, I just care about finding what's true, then I can change my position on anything at any time. And there's something very powerful about that. And I think that if you can bring that to a relationship, Then you have a relationship between two p…”
Lieberman: Sanchez grew from 3,500 to 409K YouTube subscribers in eight months
“March meaning eight months ago.
I don't guess.
20,000 or something.
3500.
Today you're right around 409,000 subscribers on YouTube.”
Callen: Public Speakers Avoid Bombing by Distilling Ideas to Their Essence
“What I would say to you, though, maybe the way to avoid that in the future is to really dial down on what you're saying. Sometimes when we're not quite sure, we get into this gray area. And I would, it feels like, I didn't see the speech, but it feels like whe…”
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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 → |