Silicon Valley

“The data says the world-class ones, at least the ones that make it in Silicon Valley and the ones that get funded are completely antisocial and probably come from usually dysfunctional families.”

“You know, one of the things that I think we lost a little bit of sight over During the SaaS boom period in Silicon Valley, which I think is coming to an end, is the idea of like tinkering and the idea of following your passion and interest without an immediate…”

“In the early innings of a platform shift, you can be narrow and you can find a lot of product market fit, but towards when the thing mature, say, you know, web or cloud, what have you actually have to be a lot more ambitious.”

“If you ask someone for relevant experience, then if they have some first advantage is that like you get to integrate their experience into your context, as opposed to trying to give them a bunch of context so that they can chew the cud for you and give you the…”

“Being in Silicon Valley in 20, 23 is a lot being what I imagine being in Florence in the Renaissance must have been like just so much creativity, so much productivity, such a high concentration of brilliance.”

“I've joked with some people right now that regardless of the outcome of AI, it's all going to be completely obvious in five years, right? Like, how can no one tell that, you know, this was all a sham or the greatest thing that we've ever seen, right? And every…”

“I actually think a very fine motivation is just a desire to build a company. I actually think some of the best companies out there is just like a desire of any company and just in relentless desire to build that.”

“Great companies hire great people. The best companies can hire anyone. And when I read that, I was like, that is such a You know, such a banger. It's so interesting. Cause you know, again, that's another like Silicon Valley line, which is you just have to hire…”

“You would be surprised how many people actually are excited to speak with technologists. Most people outside of Silicon Valley, like small businesses and real, you know, industry and people don't get to speak with technologists often that can build products.”

“Now we're in the industrial age of venture capital. There's a VC who's a vice president. We are when the Rockefellers were in the White House. We are when the Carnegie's, you know, that it's Silicon Valley has become this institution which runs the company and…”

“It's like one of these ecosystems, this being venture-backed Silicon Valley companies, one of these ecosystems, when you get just a little ahead, If you keep it, you can become, like, the number one player.”

“Today it is because there's, again, the Valley is different today in 20, 25 than it is ever before, because now there's no idea. I mean, you can go to an individual YC demo day and you'll see the same company, you know, three, Companies doing the same idea. So…”

“There's two things that founders, I think, valley kind of under, Estimates on founders, or under, let's say, indexes on founders. One is work ethic, and then the second one is being well-rounded.”

“And so then the kind of the little bit of the fraud that's happening in Silicon Valley, which people often don't talk about, is like, goal is raise big rounds, take some secondary, and YOLO. And if the company goes to zero, or the company has a big downturn in…”

“Particularly in Silicon Valley, that this sort of thinking has accelerated, which is make a point solution as fast as possible to get to some revenue as fast as possible. And everybody that ends up optimizing for the local maxima, because if you end up giving …”

“People in Silicon Valley Think because they've made a lot of money that they're exceptional. And that's not true. There's so much luck that's involved in, in, in what we do.”

“And what you often see, and all these companies go through, is, like, the cycle around the clock. Like, you're really hot, then people, then there's the contrarian views, then everybody, you know, is down on you, and then there's the contrarian views, and then…”