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Chamath: Nobody building real businesses cares about Davos
“Nobody building anything really gives a shit about Davos. Nobody is thinking what's going on. Nobody even knows when it happens.”
Calacanis: World Economic Forum charged $40,000 fee for Young Global Leaders
“They recruited me to be part of their world leaders, 15 years ago, after I had sold my second company, and I met Claus, the guy who runs it, at some New York Four Seasons event, and then I got the bill, and to be a world leader, Was 40 fucking thousand dollars…”
Calacanis: Attending Davos shifted from a flex to an embarrassment
“It's been a slow unraveling from this being something that people used to flex about going to Davos. Now people are literally apologizing on social media, ex Twitter, et cetera, explaining why they're going because they're kind of feeling shame and going to th…”
Chamath: Davos is now a glorified enterprise software sales conference
“What is it probably more than anything else now? A glorified enterprise software sales conference, where the reason to go to these conferences for a lot of these companies, I suspect, is that it allows you to close very big deals.”
Goldstein: Davos Attendees Are Obsessed With Potential U.S. Greenland Purchase
“And I will get asked that question in nearly every meeting. And I mean, literally, back in Silicon Valley, I, like, no one, I mean, yes, we've heard it on the news, of course, yes, of course, it's important, but people aren't talking about it on an every hour …”