Silicon Valley

“I sometimes describe things like web summit and four years from now, it's being like gay pride. Which is to say if you live in Stanford, you don't need an event to tell you. If you grew up in Berkeley or Stanford, you don't need an event to tell you about star…”

“I think we're going to get a more, more opinionated, more diverse software as a result of that, if more people create it.”

“Outside Silicon Valley, everybody uses Office, and actually a lot of people use those features, or everyone uses some of those features.”

“The world in which all the ideas came from within 50 miles of Silicon Valley, well, that's kind of over.”

“There's a kind of person in Silicon Valley that thinks that advertising is evil, and advertisers shouldn't want to know anything about us, and I never bought anything from advertising either, and I think this is really fucking childish.”

“Privacy is a strategic asset. You know, there's an old line in Silicon Valley that everyone is giving somebody else's business model away for free. Apple doesn't have, it doesn't have a social network, doesn't have a search engine, doesn't really have a, it do…”

“There is that sort of slightly interesting sort of actually quite narrow view in Silicon Valley of what you can and can't copy. And also it's only goes on some axes, even in Silicon Valley. So no one would say like, you know, if you're doing a two-sided market…”

“There's a very standard presumption in Silicon Valley that software companies can learn other industries faster than those other industries can learn software. And that's generally true, but. Well, it's generally true, but it might not matter. I think that's…”

“It was, it's basically the Met the Met Gala of Silicon Valley.”

“And a lot of them are working on crypto, and some of them Are working on it for the money, but most of them aren't just working on it for the money, or they're working on it because they think, here is this substrate.”

“Google has to have a bunch of compliance people. Okay. That doesn't change anything for anyone in Silicon Valley. It's just compliance people. It's just cost. It's just money on the EPS.”

“Well, the thing that occurred to me sometimes is that, you know, Bloomberg, for example, will never be disrupted because the only people who could disrupt it can't see it because it's 24,000 dollars a year. So nobody who knows what it is or really understands …”

“And so what's actually happened with IP connected cameras for enterprise is it's all the Chinese manufacturers. Because from their perspective, all the Silicon Valley company was doing was branding and marketing. They weren't actually, there was no network com…”

“And what sort of interested me about this was that this isn't technology anymore. It's not software, it's not Silicon Valley, it's not even, I mean, it's probably coming out of Shenzhen in some form, but it's no longer the tech industry, it's the lighting indu…”

“There was an observation for a long time that Pinterest was sort of like invisible in Silicon Valley, because basically like 80 or 90% of the user pay, it's in New York. Is it New York? I think it's in New York. Yeah. 90% of the users are women. And so like, a…”

“For Twitter it's because it's just massively dysfunctional and badly managed for sort of 15 years. And it was kind of a byword in Silicon Valley as a place where good people would go and be unable to get anything done. And so the product sort of stagnated sinc…”

“If you're using this all day, every day, you're not a typical user. It's like the paradox. Normally you would say if you're only using this once a week, you don't, you shouldn't be working on it. You should only be working on it if you're using it every day. T…”

“So if you're going to make your own experiences, then you are competing with the whole of Silicon Valley and the entire tech industry in trying to invent new experiences on this technology.”

“And maybe this is the first time that the disconnect is just so obvious that we have this insane capability of building these things that are incredible and yet no one actually needs it right now.”

“There was this whole story, kind of, 1015 years ago in the Valley, that like, Enterprise software will become grassroots. It'll be bottom up enterprise, bottom up sales. You won't have to go through the sales process. You won't go to CIO. You won't have to wai…”