Jonathan Ross

10 statements across 1 episodes · 8 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jul 5, 2026 by Jonathan Ross · across every show →

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Jul 5, 2026 bullish
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Ross: Agentic AI drives exponential growth by delegating tasks to other AIs
“AI is really good at using AI. And that's really what agentic is, right? So humans benefit from using AI. So does AI. Just like you would do research about me before I show up on your show, AI is going to kick off a job doing research on different tools it's g…”
Jonathan Ross Jul 5, 2026 ▶ 2:13 Why Asking the Right Questions Is the Most Important Skill in the AI Age
Jul 5, 2026 positive
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Ross: Groq hires highly autonomous people who would fail in corporate setups
“When I hire people, I hire very autonomous people who often go off and execute on their own, and they would be terrible in most corporate environments.”
Jonathan Ross Jul 5, 2026 ▶ 10:21 Why Asking the Right Questions Is the Most Important Skill in the AI Age
Jul 5, 2026 negative
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Ross: Learning to manage people cost Groq three to four years
“The first thing that you have to do as a founder is you have to go from the technical thing that you know how to do and that you can add value with to learning how to manage people. And for me, that probably cost Grok three to four years.”
Jonathan Ross Jul 5, 2026 ▶ 12:59 Why Asking the Right Questions Is the Most Important Skill in the AI Age
Jul 5, 2026 positive
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Ross: Marginal cost of software code is approaching zero
“What I'm seeing is that code is becoming almost free. It's, it, the marginal cost is approaching zero.”
Jonathan Ross Jul 5, 2026 ▶ 1:08:05 Why Asking the Right Questions Is the Most Important Skill in the AI Age
Jul 5, 2026 positive
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Ross: Stating 'I intend to' prevents pessimism and filters feedback
“And the basic idea in intentional leadership is if I ask someone, should I do something? Oh, they have opinions. Most people will be pessimistic and give you negative opinions. On the other hand, if you express intentional leadership, you say, I intend to do t…”
Jonathan Ross Jul 5, 2026 ▶ 46:50 Why Asking the Right Questions Is the Most Important Skill in the AI Age
Jul 5, 2026 bullish
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Ross: Machine micropayments will cause autonomous payment volumes to skyrocket
“Yeah, I think it's still early, and one of the limiters is payments aren't really built for this yet, but if you can make micropayments, the number of payments is going to skyrocket.”
Jonathan Ross Jul 5, 2026 ▶ 2:48 Why Asking the Right Questions Is the Most Important Skill in the AI Age
Jul 5, 2026 positive
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Ross: Hiring requires vetting negatives rather than searching for positive traits
“The biggest flip in my hiring was when I went from looking for positives, which is what you do when you're trying to grow talent, to looking for negatives, which is what you do when you're trying to select talent.”
Jonathan Ross Jul 5, 2026 ▶ 57:15 Why Asking the Right Questions Is the Most Important Skill in the AI Age
Jul 5, 2026 bullish
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Ross: Workers Are Shifting from Individual Contributors to Leaders of AI
“Yeah, and this also goes towards a shift of going, people are moving from being ICs or individual contributors to all being leaders, but leaders of AI.”
Jonathan Ross Jul 5, 2026 ▶ 6:31 Why Asking the Right Questions Is the Most Important Skill in the AI Age
Jul 5, 2026 positive
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Ross: 80% of Groq employees took salary cuts to statutory minimums
“80% of the employees participated. And I think about half went to the statutory minimum salary by law. And remember, engineers get paid hundreds of thousands of dollars. These folks like cut their salary down to like 50, 60,000 dollars, whatever the statutory …”
Jonathan Ross Jul 5, 2026 ▶ 53:39 Why Asking the Right Questions Is the Most Important Skill in the AI Age
Jul 5, 2026 neutral
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Ross: Modern education must test question formulation over answer lookup
“When you create homework or a test for kids, if they can look up the answer online, or if they can ask AI to solve it, you haven't taught them what they need for the next stage. But if you give them a problem where they have to ask the questions and get AI to …”
Jonathan Ross Jul 5, 2026 ▶ 1:11:09 Why Asking the Right Questions Is the Most Important Skill in the AI Age
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