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“Well, you have to get rid of the climate cult, first of all because it's just like, I mean, it's one of the most evil things that's been wrought on on, on, on population.”

“The problem with charity dollars is they can't be given to anything that has a self healing fitness function, like, which is very fancy way of saying the words. For profit. Like markets voting of if a thing should exist. And like a not for profit, like the wor…”

“It's very much veered into socialism under, under Trudeau. He pushed that very, very hard I am very much hoping that, ah, Mark is helping all of Canada to figure out that that's a successful discovery of something that doesn't work, because obviously that kind…”

“I think you can learn more by studying World of Warcraft raiding guilds than you can learn from studying companies about coordination and what great looks like.”

“What you see right now is not AI layoffs. It's also just like the companies that are really slow that like overhired just like everyone else doing it now.”

“There's an enormous amount, at least half of population is utterly confused about how this all works and makes very, very bad choices due to this.”

“There's just simply no chance that we shouldn't be sort of deeply, deeply, deeply, in fact, daily thankful for what Elon is doing on Planet Earth. Like, he's so singular.”

“Money is being captured by really bad actors in these systems.”

“It replaces merit of organization with pull of individuals. Who is attracted to these places? The people who want to do something that for which you have to use You know, pull. And you know, the smoothest talkers, the people who, it's not the builders who are …”

“60% of people, more than 60, I think the numbers have gone up since, and people think that the United States is the largest risk to Canada, like, much larger than, like, Russia or China would be.”

“AI has so many naysayers, like, we are gonna tell kids they can't use AI. Kids will not stop using AI. What they will do is they will download Chinese models, and you will never, ever, ever get another high school essay about Tiananmen Square as a consequence …”

“It's a fair deal over 50%.”

“So merit double blind is the gold standard. Unfortunately, merit double blind is not the standard, right? Like it's like very, very rare. I think never does might be better than some of the crazy shit people are doing to decide who should be appointed into, es…”

“Specifically like the people who get their wealth by building companies. Have not stolen anything. They have created a product that people voted for. It's actually the most democratic thing that exists. It's vastly more democratic than any of the elections tha…”

“All these accredited investors accredited investor laws and stuff like this all they do is, like, make it so that Like, when you're rich, you can invest in private company stock. And when you're not, you can't. And, well, where are the returns? Like, of co…”

“All these stories of software is for a certain segment of a market are skills issues, and that's exactly what they sounded like when I first heard about it. It's convenience to the company making the software to say, we are focused on one segment, and by the w…”

“I think the Meta Shopify LA group has created more businesses than like you know, any government policy in history.”

“The utilitarian difference between a real US dollar and a US dollar crypto coin is like that the US dollar crypto coin is mostly like, it's sort of like gift certificates to scams. It's like, there's not that many things you can actually purchase with it that …”

“And that was a company under brutal attack by the regulators in a way that, like, very few companies of all time have ever faced. That's, like, they threw, like, the government wanted them dead and pretty much said so, right?”

“We actually are under the opinion at this point that everyone should be able to code, at least sort of since Vibe coding is around. This is clearly, this has gone from a, you know, have to spend all of your teenage years in a dark room Cultivating a rare skill…”

“I don't even think it's going to end up mattering because AI is going to solve all technical debt.”

“I don't even believe in AI unemployment from, to begin with. It's not how things work. But if you were worried about it, F-One is kind of proving that we can just make up completely incredible pursuits, especially with AI and robotics, we can make it cheaper, …”

“A better set of trade-offs for the future is to accept the vast additional difficulty of building a remote company. It's way harder. Like it's, Like, it's not something you should recommend to anyone to do this because you, it's the same as trying to run a wor…”

“As long as they do something legal, we support them. And in fact, we are just pushing them from behind via tool. Like, your screwdriver is not going to tell you that you can't screw in something into a wall because you're a Republican voter.”

“It seems to me that it's only founders who subtract in companies.”

“Engineering involves applied systems design. It has a discipline of systems design that is just vastly, like, we're not talking about slightly ahead. We're talking about a hundred years ahead in, in, in, to everything else. It is not a contest when you hold it…”

“Media has a grudge against technology for, frankly, understandable reasons. Like everyone in media works for an institution that probably was negatively affected by tech.”

“A lot of our carbon issue in the world comes from the environmentalists convincing the world that even though we're building a economy that required nuclear power, we could somehow do it with coal instead, and oil.”

“Europe's dependence on Russia for natural gas pipelines plus the act of aggression by Russia may actually cause climate change to be solved, which is, like, an unbelievable story when you're looking at this.”

“Hire smart people and then get out of their way. I think that's a waste of everyone's time. It's not even good for the, like, it's a nice story, but it's, like, dumb. It's, like, one of those would be nice if that would work, but doesn't.”

“Hey, the future's fantastic, and we'll probably become immortal relatively soon, and all these kind of things and maybe not us, but our children definitely will.”

“I don't think eights, like eights are basically conspired against in companies. They, because they are paying their asses. They just say, they say a thing. They say like, this is It's a shit. Like if something, if our shit does not smell better than other peop…”

“You can't run a product driven company without also being in control of a company.”

“I think they are really bad proxy for what you should be doing. Because most people aren't. So I think it's a much saner strategy to, like, do the flip to public as a minor financing.”

“Now the advice comes from the investment bankers and you are not their customers. You, you're their crop. Their customers are actually the people in the book, right? Like, so their job is to get everyone in the book the cheapest possible deal.”

“My real hope is seven and a half to 8000, right? Like at a hundred x productivity level, right?”

“I just think we're gonna go into the golden age of entrepreneurship. It's by far the most AI-safe job. It's by far the most AI-benefiting job.”

“What you will see is like AI is going to be blamed for absolutely everything, right? Like, because it's like, it's the perfect scapegoat.”

“Governments are extremely bad at what they do. Everyone needs to know that like the moment a government takes over anything, it will cost 10 times as much, which is really, really, really bad”

“I think Canadians massively overfit to niceness. Like it's kind of a best thing and a worst thing in a country is like to prioritize niceness. Because it's like, I mean, it's certainly pleasant, but the problem is it leads to unkind lies, right? Like it's like…”

“I think my most public mistake was going into Full on logistics and physical warehouse building just before AI got really good and not like, and we didn't have the ability to you know, do both of those things at the same time. So we actually had to like abando…”

“Turns out that just having, having done a lot of reps and having seen a lot of those just means senior engineers just steer these things in such a way that like they can accomplish incredible feats in their little time.”

“Honestly it turns out, I think people who've done like engineering management and management in general are actually excellent AI programmers because they actually have been prompting intelligent agents for much longer than cloud code existed.”

“If you're building a large scale AI system like we have one, which they think what river, which lives in Slack and does some Ludicrous amount of Shopify's engineering now.”

“Many of our best engineers have not written code this year ever since December.”

“I think North America is wrong. I think you should think about how data is persisted on, on, on disk above everything else in your databases or so, and then you can plan the system with this.”

“I really tried everything and learning like you know, just how to, you know, build the team in such a way that I delegate everything, and I have my different business lines and you know, arrange things. This is sort of after the IPO, and I realized I have to b…”

“The moment I went through absolutely every project I did myself, took like many, like, 16 hour days, I canceled probably 60% of the projects, and over the course of the year, I turned over every one of my executives.”