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“I mean, I've never met someone who's so smart, who's so stupid. I don't know how else to say with him. He's such a small minded person.”

“I think he dropped the ball on innovation at the company. I think he alienated most of his natural buyers by being such an asshole.”

“I think everyone should be able to be sued, because then you do a lot better at your business if you have the threat of lawsuits, essentially. So that's not happening, and so they're never going to be good at it until they can be sued”

“I mean, he's certainly better than Larry and Sergey, that's for sure. I mean, those two. Like, okay, that would be a disaster. Why a disaster? Because they're just, they've lost the narrative, the two of them.”

“Just like Elon taking credit for everything, like, you can't do anything without taking credit. It's so Trumpian, like, I, Only I can do this”

“They're shoplifters, they've been shoplifters forever. So no, they're not just pointing to me, they're taking my things.”

“You remember when Andreessen Horowitz was doing his media up or whatever. When they did that, they're like, one of them called me, and they're like, we're going to beat you. It's your own game. I'm like, one, you'll suck. Two, it's a shitty business. Enjoy. I …”

“I think the government should be running it. I just don't understand why our government allowed this to happen, just like a lot of, I believe in public-private partnerships, but at some point, these are in the public interest. The public part should be driving…”

“Musk is like playing a Bond villain. It's like, he's moving into Bond villain territory, but and Mark was sort of adjacent Bond villain adjacent kind of thing.”

“Why they have to partner with someone. They don't collect information the way the others do. They're not information thieves the way the others are.”

“Like, V.C. Is talking about Ukraine. No thank you. They're idiotic beyond belief, most of them.”

“You know, it's obviously at the white hot center of everything, but I don't think it will remain there. No, I don't. No. I mean, unless he's the best business person in history, but I don't think he is.”

“The screens are, have a deleterious effect on especially girls. I think there's no, I think directionally he's correct.”

“These people think that money and inventing a browser gives them license to say anything they want about everything, and honestly, they're experts at what they're experts on, and the other stuff, I'm a little less inclined to have to listen to their blather.”

“There's no one you could give more credit to than him in pushing forward the electric vehicle thing. Google tried a little bit, but he really did it, right? And so a lot of people tried and he did it.”

“Well, no, let me just tell you, there are 10 companies like Neuralink. He's not the only one.”

“He, if he had the right people, they would have said AI is where we need to focus mark a long time ago.”

“I remember when Sheryl Sandberg called me and she's like, come on Facebook Live. I'm like, why? She goes, well, you'll be bigger. I said, I'm plenty big. Like, what do you, what do I get? And they go, well, we'll give you some money.”

“I think he probably doesn't know what to do with Whole Foods. Like, what are we doing this for?”

“Oh, I think he's super aggressive. I've met him when he was 19, so I have a long history with him. You know, he's like the rest of them. He's super aggressive. He's much more thoughtful. He has much calmer voice and everything else. He at least, you know, lean…”

“I mean, you have subscriptions, but I suspect it's not a very big business.”

“And I think those who resist it and just sort of, you know, bemoan their fate or destined to fail, that's for sure.”

“I think the CNNs will figure it out. It's a Global Information Network. They'll come up with a business in line with its costs. I don't think they're out at all.”

“I have a lot of people close to Elon who are texting me, which I'm like, oh, I don't want to hear about this, you know, about his personal problems.”

“You know, I've never met a group of people that actually talk about their disdain for the media that never stop thinking about the media. That's my interesting little... They're just very obsessed with the media in a way that's, I'm not obsessed with them for …”

“There's like a few studies that you string together, or, you know, I just interviewed Jonathan Haidt, for example. You have a premise, then you string a few studies together, and then you get in arguments with people. That seems to be the way to do it.”

“Tim Cook has managed to get over that, like, because the stock is so hot, you know, it's, it goes up and down, but it's about 10 X from when Steve Jobs ran it, right?”

“I think you'll, you'll see, it'll be something so subtle. I know you're expecting some like beautiful, gorgeous thing, but yeah, I think your phone will talk to your AirPods better and then it'll all coordinate.”

“No, I think they've got a, I think that was a smart move. I think he's got to do it himself. I think picking up great information and great computing resources, that company sure should be right in the middle of this. No, I thought that was smart. He affiliate…”

“I told him Elon was gonna fire him the minute that interview came out, and he did, and I was like, you're wrong, and I'm like, okay, I'm sorry.”