Silicon Valley

“Silicon Valley has not done itself any favors in building goodwill and trust with the regulators.”

“And I think there's like, there's, like, there's basically two bifurcated cultures out here in Silicon Valley. There's the culture of like, you know, Google, Facebook, Pinterest, that like, you know, we're here for you. We'll pay you as much money as possible,…”

“I think Silicon Valley has finally lost its stigma a little bit against solo founders. For a long time, YC and stuff were like, you have to have co-founders.”

“It was easier for us to reject VC money because we didn't live in that world. We lived in the Midwest and that's not how people do things over there, you know? And we also didn't go to the parties and didn't go to the events and didn't like get influenced by t…”

“What is a billion dollar company? Right? Like, it means like the last share you sold for like, 11 dollars and you have like a hundred million of those shares out there... And you can like, maybe if you're lucky, get a loan on it or something. Right. But at the…”

“Promising something that doesn't exist is as central to the Valley ethos as late night coding sessions, hoodies, and the hallucination that the public has asked you to solve the world's problems versus just do less damage.”

“In a lot of ways, I believe LTV and the obsession with marketing metrics like this is what has given the rise to more quantitatively focused growth marketers, a role that has replaced creative, more qualitative marketing manager roles at Silicon Valley startup…”