Opinion
Sanchez: Khosla backs open borders while suing to block public beach access
“He is going out there saying that we should have an open border when he has a private mansion on a beach trying to block public access to the beach for normal people, is in a lawsuit for like five or seven years while trying to say that we should have open bor…”
Opinion
Sanchez: Anyone Saying Elon Musk Harms Economy Is Lying or Dumb
“Anyone who thinks he's bad for the economy is either lying or so dumb as to be irrelevant.”
Insight
Sanchez: Manifestation acts as anesthesia, draining the drive to do work
“So your brain books the fantasy as like a partial payment on the real thing. And it actually gives you the reward before you've done the work. So the drive to do the actual work drains out of you. Fascinating. So in other words, manifestation is actually anest…”
Prediction Open · timeframe Mar 2031
Sanchez: US Unemployment Is Racing Toward 10% or 20%
“I think America is racing towards a 10% unemployment rate, maybe 20.”
Opinion
Sanchez: Crying at work guarantees you will stall in middle management
“I'm sorry to say this, but don't listen to anybody else who says, oh, you can cry if you want to. Oh, you can just say your truth out loud. Oh, it's fine. No, no, no, no. Those people will forever rent apartments and at most get to middle management. They will…”
Disclosure
Sanchez struggles to find women founders building sufficiently large businesses
“I actively look for women to invest in, and I have a really hard time finding women who are building big enough businesses.”
Opinion
Sanchez: Mark Cuban is wrong that teaching business online proves it fails
“His clip basically said, if they're telling you about how to do it on the internet,
It doesn't work because if it worked, they'd just go do it.
And I thought that was so funny.
Sounds great.
Except it's wrong.
Because what actually happens is when you give mor…”
Opinion
Sanchez: Men negotiate better, closing deals faster and on better terms
“I actually do see it First hand that men are better at negotiating than women, that men make more than women often, even with a similar skill set, that's partial negotiation, and that men, when they are in a deal, let's say arguing for a business to buy, they …”
Disclosure
Sanchez: Fired podcast vendor who refused to work on Joe Lonsdale episode
“So, Joe Lonsdale was gonna come on the show, and we had a vendor that was working on our podcast. They do some, what's called pre-production stuff, like come up with thumbnails or their interesting tidbits on the internet. And this young gentleman reached out,…”
Opinion
Sanchez: Western Sanctions on Russia Ended Up Hurting Europe More
“We had a sanction on Russia and Europe that we thought was gonna hurt Russia, but actually ended up hurting Europe more.”
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Sanchez: Balaji Srinivasan predicts 70% chance of economic crisis within two years
“His point here was, I'm concerned about the chance of a crisis, and so Balaji thinks there's a 10% chance of a crisis happening soon, a 70% chance in the next two years, which is scary because he's very smart.”
Opinion
Sanchez: VCs repackage retirement homes as 'reimagined living' to raise millions
“I feel like this is what Venture has done since, you know, the last bull run of 2009 in Venture is they've been like, the thing is, We're reimagining the way that we live and what they're doing in actuality is retirement home, but for young people, but it's th…”
Opinion
Sanchez: Tim Cook is purely a systems executive with no innovation
“And then obviously brought in people like Tim Cook, who are pure systems guys, no innovation.”
Opinion
Sanchez: Working from home is a tragedy unless someone has made it
“I think it's a tragedy, actually. Unless you've made it. If you've made it, work from home, maybe.”
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Sanchez: Remote human assistants deliver higher ROI than AI for her company
“I just told my team today that we found that hiring a remote assistant has a better ROI for my company than using AI.”
Opinion
Sanchez: Ignoring Musk's lessons because you dislike him makes you an idiot
“If you don't like him, you know, Elon talks about the idiot test, but I think the other idiot test is, if you don't like Elon Musk, you're the idiot, because there's something to learn from him, no matter what.”
Opinion
Sanchez: Many VC investors lack skin in the game and operating experience
“A lot of these investors are salaried investors. They got no skin in the game, and they've never actually run anything.”
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Sanchez: Peter Thiel rejected Replit, saying it would never be big
“I remember when I told Peter Thiel that he should invest in the company and Peter said, it's never going to be a big company. This vibe coding thing is sort of ridiculous. And he put it in an email”
Opinion
Sanchez: Harvard and Google credentials have almost zero correlation with job fit
“Resumes and history has so little correlation to good and a fit. There's almost no correlation. And it used to be that if you worked at some of these big companies, you're like, There's a pretty high indicator that you might continue to have like a certain out…”
Disclosure
Sanchez: Applicants must complete unpaid audition projects to prove authentic interest
“Now we make everybody do a creative project, and I don't like to pay people for it, not because of the expense. I don't like to pay people because I want to know how they feel about Doing work with us. Are they really interested? Or are they merely kind of cur…”
Insight
Sanchez: Naval Ravikant is mathematically wrong about not getting rich renting time
“He talks about how you know, you'll never get rich renting your time. And I actually don't agree with that. I mean, mathematically it's not true. Like Sheryl Sandberg, quite rich. Always been an employee.”
Opinion
Sanchez: Chamath Palihapitiya led two of the decade's best investment deals
“Now look at the guy. He's done like two of the biggest and best transactions you could say in the last decade in investing.”
Insight
Sanchez: AI Shifts the 80/20 Rule to a 99/1 Dynamic
“With AI and automation, it's not eighty-twenty anymore. It's ninety-nine-one, which is like the right decision at the right time Will always outperform effort alone, and the one percent of things you choose to work on will now drive 99% of your results.”
Opinion
Sanchez: Stopping work at 5 PM is a 'fake millennial' boundary
“You're going to actually have to set boundaries and not like fake. With all due respect, I am also millennial, not like fake millennial boundaries. Like I don't work or answer my email after five. Good fucking luck. Good luck.”
