Silicon Valley, every mention
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How to Dominate for Decades | Doug Leone, Sequoia Capital
- ▶ 46:06 Doug Leone Those are the things that keep me grounded in this crazy world of ours in which we live here in Silicon Valley. 2 times in the scene
Sam Altman on Building OpenAI & Betting on the Impossible
- ▶ 19:52 Sam Altman The sort of normal career path in Silicon Valley is you're like a, or not a common path is that you're a founder and then you like sort of semi-retire and you become an investor.
- ▶ 22:50 David Senra Like, you're, you're making a big jump because, you know, you're one of the, from what I hear, one of the best investors of all time in Silicon Valley.
- ▶ 57:30 Sam Altman And the fact that it doesn't match the current Silicon Valley wisdom of, you know, you gotta have like feeds and you have to have like a network effect and you have to have, cause we had none of these things and that's why everyone was… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:11:34 Sam Altman And it had been, you know, OpenAI started as sort of a time when everybody in Silicon Valley, as their vanity project, including me, wanted to start a research lab.
The Comms Strategist Behind Anduril, Shopify & Cognition | Lulu Cheng Meservey
- ▶ 11:54 Lulu Cheng Meservey Um, they were going against the grain of their community, so especially in Silicon Valley, it was super duper not cool to work with the government.
Lessons From Backing The Best Founders In Fintech | Micky Malka
- ▶ 34:19 Micky Malka Silicon Valley has lost that ability a long time ago, and we have to bring it back. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:04:40 Micky Malka Because Silicon Valley needs creativity.
DHH: How to Build a Profitable Company Without Losing Control
- ▶ 1:21:37 David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) That producing profits, like I know this is a bit of a foreign term in much of Silicon Valley, like that's the money you get to keep when, uh, you've taken your revenues and minus your expenses.
Why Asking the Right Questions Is the Most Important Skill in the AI Age
- ▶ 10:43 Jonathan Ross Then again, there are a lot of things that are very similar, which is most of the best Silicon Valley leaders, they lead from a place of inspiring their people as opposed to, um, trying to, to get people to be afraid.
- ▶ 24:51 Jonathan Ross Now, when you're watching some of these wagers that are happening in Silicon Valley with people putting in big bets, it's because that used to be what won.
Building Pixar, Working With Steve Jobs, and Cultivating Creativity | Ed Catmull
- ▶ 20:16 Ed Catmull Uh, Silicon Valley was, uh, Larry Censini at the time.
- ▶ 1:09:43 David Senra Yeah, to figure out, oh, and you start studying all these other, this is what I love, the first opening of the book, where it's like, yeah, but I've been around, you know, you were working, you were observing Silicon Valley, too.
The Man Behind Grand Theft Auto 6: Strauss Zelnick
- ▶ 27:13 Strauss Zelnick And then coincidentally, I got a call from a recruiter saying there's a startup pre-revenue video game business in Silicon Valley that is doing the most advanced video games.
- ▶ 1:36:10 Strauss Zelnick Um, remember what AI is, despite the fact that there are people in Silicon Valley who don't want you to believe this, is big data sets, lots of compute, and a large language model mushed together.
Tony Xu of DoorDash: Surviving 1,000 Days of Startup Hell
Marc Andreessen: The World Is More Malleable Than You Think
- ▶ 3:51 Marc Andreessen Um, and, um, you know, and I was describing this phenomenon where we see at Silicon Valley where, you know, kind of there, these guys get under pressure
- ▶ 11:03 David Senra Okay, so you, you have this, like, encyclopedic knowledge of the history of Silicon Valley in your head. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:37 Marc Andreessen Do you think that's the most- And by the way, Silicon Valley was built in large part on HP. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:21 Marc Andreessen In fairness to the, kind of, our competitors, um, you know, Silicon Valley between, call it, 1950 to 2010, was primarily just in the tools business, right? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:58 Marc Andreessen And the reason was because his company, Silicon Graphics, his first company, they were the company in the valley between like, call it, call it, yeah, eight-seven to 94 or something. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:42:51 Marc Andreessen Right, and so, so one of my, one of my concepts is, um, I think we need a metric, um, uh, for, um, founders in Silicon Valley called the Millet Elon.
Brian Armstrong: When Washington Tried to Kill Coinbase
- ▶ 28:46 Brian Armstrong That was like the only thing I could really think of, and so that was a very clarifying decision where I decided, all right, I need to move to Silicon Valley, because that's where tech entrepreneurship happens. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:37 Brian Armstrong It still is in Silicon Valley.
Jason Fried: Your Only Competition Is Your Costs
- ▶ 1:31:45 Jason Fried And what's always blown me away is how many companies in Silicon Valley who are in the software business lose gobs and gobs of money. 2 times in the scene
Tobi Lütke: 21 Years of Building Shopify
- ▶ 1:19:28 David Senra One of the things that Daniel from, from Spotify, I almost said Shopify, now for him, David from Spotify told him, he's like, you should ask him, like, what were some of the advantages of starting with Silicon Valley? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:26:41 Tobi Lütke Silicon Valley orthodoxy definitely is, uh, to, to avoid it.
- ▶ 1:36:29 Tobi Lütke The reason why I didn't move to Silicon Valley is because I knew how to create geographical consensus, um, in the eastern seaboard that Shopify is the best company to work for, full stock. 2 times in the scene
CAA Co-founder Michael Ovitz: Failure Is Not an Option
- ▶ 2:01:12 Michael Ovitz They grew up in Silicon Valley.
How Brad Jacobs Built 8 Billion-Dollar Companies
- ▶ 37:50 David Senra In the nineties and late nineties and in 97, they interview, uh, 16 technology company founders, since they're in Silicon Valley at the time, you know, and they published this book called In the Company of Giants and everybody's in there,… 2 times in the scene