The Ledger, every show
Every statement that passed quotation and attribution checks, across all 44 shows. Pick shows below, then mix any filter with any other.
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Blank: The entire Lean Startup methodology will be enabled by AI
“The entire lean method. Is going to be end to end enabled by AI.”
Steve Blank: Sales leaders will never allow initial in-person meetings again
“If I'm in sales, there is no possible way, or if I'm the VP of sales or CEO, if there's no possible way, I'm ever going to let a salesperson again do a first meeting in person.”
Blank: Stanford was the only Cold War university encouraging commercial spinouts
“Because all research universities in the United States during the Cold War worked on military weapons systems, but it was only Stanford where back by then the term was the provost Who pointed the university outwards. All other universities were focused inwards…”
Blank: SpaceX is the largest satellite manufacturer, surpassing traditional primes
“The largest satellite manufacturer is not Northrop Grumman or Lockheed or Boeing. It's SpaceX, right? Have a factory that makes this at scale at a scale unimaginable”
Blank: DeepMind protein folding accelerated molecular biology by 30 years
“Google deep mind figured out how to do protein folding in a way that basically, you know, accelerated
You know molecular biology probably by 30 years.
we solve, you know, the three D structures of two hundred million proteins.”
Blank co-founded the precursor to Tesla but quit after six weeks
“Well, J.B. And I and Scott Andrews started a car company, which eventually became Tesla. And I did that for six weeks with him until I realized I couldn't get it up again. There was no way I wanted to jump on red eyes like I used to. I had a family, I had kids…”
Blank predicts the Tesla Cybertruck will be another Model X-style misstep
“And I think the Cybertruck will be another Model X”
Steve Blank: Stock market and real economy have never been so disconnected
“There's never been a period where the economy and the stock market have been so out of sync.”
Blank: US was the only WWII nation outsourcing advanced tech to professors
“Then OSR and D is, as some of your listeners and viewers know, basically was a brilliant move by the U.S., the only country who did this in World War II, that outsourced advanced technology to professors.”
Blank: Rathke and Vollmer Created OSC's Billion-Dollar Loan Authority
“The only economists we have in the DOD are the ones working at the Cape. You know, the, with green eye shades and whatever. It took two random guys, Jason Rathke and Eric Vollmer to come up with a billion dollar loan authority at the Office of Strategic Capita…”
Steve Blank: Chip Export Controls Left Loopholes for Foreign Suppliers
“Now, to be fair, we ended up building a dam across half the river because while we put export controls on the U S companies, Tokyo electron and ASML, who provide the other parts of the machinery, don't have export controls.”
Blank: Bill Perry gave all ESL employees equity unlike Hewlett-Packard
“The other thing he did was he modeled the company after Hewlett Packard's culture, which was the gold standard at the time, except he said at HP, only the executives had stock, and he changed that. Everybody, including the lowest level employees, which include…”