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Brooks: Polyamory is nonsense because humans are built for pair-bonding
“All of the nonsense about, I don't know, polyamory that are coming around. That's all Nonsense. And again, I mean, look, no judgment, different strokes, but look, I'm a behavioral scientist, and the truth of the matter is that we are built for pair-bond mating”
Lonsdale: Government regulators target Elon Musk to punish public speech
“If they want to go to attack Elon to punish him for speaking up, they will, and they do.”
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…”
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.”
Hammer: Dave Ramsey's $2,000 Beater Car Strategy Doesn't Work Anymore
“So the classic Dave Ramsey, 2000 hour car, that's, they're going to be putting 2000 hours into it every few months just to keep it going. And that doesn't work anymore.”
Jain: Founders should avoid traditional VC in their first two years
“I mean, candidly, I'm pretty anti-raising capital from traditional investment groups, especially in the first couple of years of your business.”
Sapp: $20K per Month Is Realistic for Inexperienced Sales Closers
“I would say, like, a realistic level for no sales experience is 20 K a month. I always say, like, I'll brainwash you into normalizing a 20 K a month. Because genuinely, like, a 20 K a month in sales really isn't that far-fetched.”
Zimmer: Hollywood studios seemingly colluded to eliminate first-dollar gross backend
“I'm not an antitrust attorney, and I'm certainly not someone to threaten, you know ... Collusion. But it sure felt a lot like it. It all happened very quickly, all around the same time, and suddenly there was no first dollar gross to be had, and back ends beca…”
Zimmer: Talk of Hollywood union unrest is damaging and misplaced
“I think that, you know, the talk about it more, you know union unrest, I think is really, really damaging and really, really misplaced right now.
And I'm really hopeful that we don't have another couple of strikes cause that would just be devastating.”
Galloway: Loneliness and political extremism threaten society more than climate change
“I think the biggest threats to our society aren't climate change or even income inequality. I think it's one extremism from the far left and the far right, and two, I think it's loneliness.”
Galloway: Regulators should break up dominant companies across all industries
“So I would argue the way to oxygenate the market would be to go through industry by industry and break up”
Galloway: The entire hedge fund and alternative investment industry is a grift
“But if you took the entire alternative investments industry, any logo on CNBC, anyone that advertises, any hedge fund, anywhere, it's essentially a grift.”
Galloway: Elon Musk is not a good role model for men
“I think he's not a very good role model for men.
I don't think living alone with none of your 12 children by three women with a loaded gun next to your bed is what men should aspire to.”
Gurley: 17-year patent terms are too long; innovation would be faster without them
“I would just say, you know, a 17 year patent is way too far. Like, we need to dial it back. I think that we will innovate faster without it.”
Gurley: The claim that Chinese tech companies are merely copycats is false
“And then you hear this idea, oh, you know, the Chinese are just copycats. They're not innovators. It's just not true. Like, it's just flat out not true.”
Gurley: Travis Kalanick is one of the smartest, hardest-working people he knows
“Uber started in the dingiest, you know, smallest of offices like most startups do, and I already talked about how determined Travis was. He's one of the smartest people I've ever met. He's one of the hardest working people I've ever met, and I don't think the …”
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…”
Sexton: Marriage licenses should require one hour with a divorce lawyer
“Everyone has to spend one hour with a divorce lawyer before they can get a marriage license. That seems very fair to me. Like, it seems like something that would be useful for people, because at least that way, they'll know, take this thing seriously. And I kn…”
Liemandt: Chatbots are 'cheat bots' and should be banned from schools
“It's why I say chat bots or cheat bots and they're terrible. Like if we could ban Like those chatbots being in school, that would be great.”
Masad: AI Replicas of $10K+ SaaS Tools Cost Literally $5
“You know, a lot of companies pay tens of thousands of dollars for software.
You can generate a replica for five dollars, literally.”
Masad: Meta's core social networks are dying assets facing AI disruption
“Meta has this asset that's spitting out a ton of cash. Which is Instagram, Facebook, their ads, kind of networks. But it's in a way a dying asset in many ways. It's a very competitive at some point it's going to get fully disrupted. AI is going in. It's alread…”
Daymond John: Wealthy founders seeking Shark Tank publicity are 'selfish bastards'
“If you have two million dollars in the bank, and you have your hat in your hand asking for money, and you have no no, you don't plan on closing a shark, you took that slot away from a family who risked everything, who their kids are not going to college, they'…”
McCord: Top AI lab leaders privately believe AI should direct human actions
“At the top labs, the AI labs that are really driving this, a lot of people behind closed doors believe that we should in fact do that, that we're being foolish rebels. If we don't listen to artificial intelligence, tell us what to do.”
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…”
Ladjevardian: UBI is the only solution to prevent mass revolution
“I almost feel like it is the only solution to prevent mass revolution. Because people are going to lose their jobs.”
Ladjevardian: Foundation models are commoditized and AI model companies most at risk
“The model's commoditized. And I think the foundation model companies are at most at risk.”
Dr. Moore: Do not take GLP-1s without lifting weights and eating protein
“I don't think that anybody even has the right to start a GLP-ONE if they also aren't going to the gym and lifting weights. And they're not also hitting their macros, their protein macros. So my argument from day one has been, it's not the peptides fault. It's …”
Brooks: The therapy industrial complex mistakenly wants you to relive trauma
“And again, that's been largely overlooked by the therapy industrial complex that wants you to relive your trauma. No, no, no, no, no, no. You need to reframe and understand your trauma, understanding that you probably weren't the person who was suffering the m…”
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 …”
Van Der Beek: Mothers doing their own research can out-educate doctors
“So if you take like a mom following her intuitive guidance and, you know, unraveling and actually sitting there and going through the peer reviewed studies and the research and all of that, you may have somebody that's actually far more educated than a lot of …”
Galloway: Elon Musk has been a net good for the world
“I think he's been a net good for the world. Inspired the EV race, the space, I mean, seeing that rocket, that booster rocket captured on it as it's falling, that shit's just inspiring.”
Galloway: Elon Musk is not a good role model for men
“I think he's not a very good role model for men. I don't think living alone With none of your 12 children by three women with a loaded gun next to your bed is what men should aspire to.”
Galloway: US policy drove an intentional wealth transfer from young to old
“There has been a purposeful transfer of wealth from young to old over the last 40 years.”
Galloway: Extremism and loneliness are bigger societal threats than climate change
“I think the biggest threats to our society aren't climate change or even income inequality. I think it's one extremism from the far left and the far right, and two, I think it's loneliness.”
Galloway: Alternative investments and hedge funds are essentially a grift
“If you took the entire alternative investments industry, any logo on CNBC, anyone that advertises, any hedge fund, it's essentially a grift. And what they, if you look at their performance, they've exactly underperformed the S&P by the amount of their fees.”
Galloway: Elon Musk is not a good role model for men
“I also think he should be held accountable for his coarseness and his cruelty. I don't think you attain that level of power such that you cannot pay people their legally obligated severance. I don't think you accuse an employee of being a sex criminal such tha…”
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.”
Karl Rove criticizes Marjorie Taylor Greene for opposing African AIDS relief
“When we have Marjorie Taylor Greene saying we must stop AIDS relief effort in Africa because we've got bigger problems here at home, it's a wrecking, it's not a, it's just not thoughtful. It's, we spend a pittance, a relative pittance of what this country has …”
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…”
Johnson: Most mainstream advice about food and medicine is wrong
“Most of it. Really? Yeah, most of it, yeah.”
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.”
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.”
Do: Budweiser's progressive campaign alienated its core because it was inauthentic
“And the classic example is, I think when Budweiser tried to do something that was non-binary, it said something that was quote unquote very woke. And there was a lot of backlash for that because we know that's not them. And they're just signaling, virtue signa…”
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.”
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.”
Gladwell: Housing crisis stems from not building and blocking market forces
“Oh, we're just not building enough of it. You know, for a million stupid reasons, and we've let existing homeowners close the door to potential homeowners. We treat landlords like enemies. We think the rules of the marketplace don't apply when it comes to hous…”
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…”
Sapp: Jeremy Miner's Confused Door-to-Door Tactic Gets Doors Slammed
“Jeremy Miner is a great guy. Love Jeremy Miner. He's awesome. He's an OG. He was actually the reason I started posting, because I was really good at sales. I was making all this money, and I wanted to learn sales, so I'm looking up, like, sales tips online on …”