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Brad Jacobs targets middle and upper management bloat during post-acquisition layoffs
“Typically, when we acquire a business, most of the people we exit do not come from the front lines. They're in the mid to upper echelons of the legacy operation. That is where we usually find most of the bloat.”
Munger: Being extremely wealthy and universally beloved goes against human nature
“There is something interesting when I had dinner with Munger. One of the most fascinating things he said, it was so odd. He thought it was very unusual to be so wealthy and love that that goes against human nature. The fact that him and Buffett, everybody obvi…”
MrBeast Abandons Multimillion-Dollar Videos That Miss His Quality Standards
“I have zero issues throwing away a multimillion dollar video. If I don't think it's up to my standards”
Top entrepreneurs abandon family dinners the moment inspiration strikes
“I literally have had one of the greatest living entrepreneurs tell me that directly, that his friends and family know they could be in the middle of a dinner. If there's an idea or something, some kind of form of inspiration comes to him related to his work, h…”
Fear of Failure Drives Ellison Far More Than Greed
“I've always been more motivated by fear of failure than greed. I hate to lose. Silicon Valley is a killing field. Very few technology companies survive, and we did.”
Li Lu keeps 100% of his personal capital in his own funds
“I don't invest anything outside of the fund. I put all of my investment capital into my funds.”
Ogilvy generated no more than 20 big ideas in his entire career
“I'm supposed to be one of the most fertile inventors of big ideas, but in my long career, I have not had more than 20.”
Senra's podcast strategy focuses entirely on outlasting competitors over a decade
“Every decision I try to make is like, I just want to make sure I don't mess up a good thing, because I know most people making podcasts are not going to be around a decade from now. I don't have to be the best. I don't have to be the smartest. I don't have to …”
Graham: Viaweb intentionally chose harder features just to handicap slower competitors
“If there were two features we could add to our software, both equally valuable in proportion to their difficulty, we would always take the harder one. Not just because it was more valuable, but because it was harder. We delighted in forcing bigger, slower comp…”
Senra built a custom AI assistant trained exclusively on his podcast notes
“I have all my notes, all my highlights and all my transcripts in this database. And I just have my own personal AI assistant that's just trained on that and only that.”
Steve Jobs spent 20 percent of his time recruiting talent
“I spend 20% of my time one day a week, even now recruiting.”
Jobs decided to act like Apple's permanent CEO from day one
“And so I went back there as interim CEO and I decided right up front that I was going to act like I was the permanent CEO.”
Amazon avoided physical retail in 2006 because it lacked meaningfully differentiated ideas
“Physical ward world retailing is cagey and ancient, but it's already well served. And we don't have any ideas for how to build a physical world store experience. That's a meaningfully differentiated for customers.”