Kaz Nejatian
23 statements across 1 episodes · 7 bullish · 6 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jul 21, 2026 by Kaz Nejatian · said 4 times in 2 episodes since 2025 · across every show →
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2026 1 mention in 1 episode
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Jul 21, 2026 neutral
Nejatian killed two profitable Opendoor business lines in his first four weeks
“In my first four weeks, I killed two entire business lines. Opendoor used to have, essentially, we provided general contractor services to other companies, which was, it was a profitable business for us, but it was not the mission of our company. Our job isn't…”
Jul 21, 2026
Jul 21, 2026 bullish
Jul 21, 2026
Nejatian: Leaders Must Be a Nuclear Bomb of Truth Against Polite Lies
“Groups of people tend to have tendencies towards niceties. So everyone ends up telling each other nice lies. A series of white lies that take very off course. And the job of a founder type is to be, you know, a nuclear bomb of truth over and over again. First …”
Jul 21, 2026 negative
Nejatian: A culture of 'suicidal empathy' is killing top tech companies
“There is a level of suicidal empathy that people have developed that is just deadly. It is killing our best companies because people are assuming that everyone is thin-skinned, and they're assuming that people are offended by facts.”
Jul 21, 2026 neutral
Jul 21, 2026 negative
Jul 21, 2026 neutral
Jul 21, 2026
Jul 21, 2026
Nejatian: Companies go bankrupt when executive models drift from ground truth
“It just so happens that unless you recognize you're looking at a first derivative of a fact, not the actual fact, you almost always will build models of the world that end up drifting from reality. And this is how companies go bankrupt over time, because they …”
Jul 21, 2026
Jul 21, 2026 positive
Nejatian rewrote Opendoor's career page to explicitly deter uncommitted candidates
“So the first week in Open Door, I changed our career page. Our career page used to say something along the lines of, this is a happy place to work where we all care about each other, and by the way, here are all of our ERGs. Opendoor's career page now says, th…”
Jul 21, 2026 positive
Jul 21, 2026 negative
Jul 21, 2026 positive
Nejatian: Turnarounds Succeed by Tracking Granular Accountability Repeatedly Over Time
“There's a reason why AA works so well. Because you do things. You track your accountability. Like, day one, week one, month one. You track over and over again, thing, your accountability. And you do the right thing over and over again. And the score tends to t…”
Jul 21, 2026 neutral
Jul 21, 2026 negative
Nejatian: Companies die if they allow multiple internal cultures to exist
“Companies cannot have multiple cultures. They just can't. They just die. If you allow a company to have many different cultures, What you end up creating is you lose all short form of communication. And you end up spending a lot of time aligning people such th…”
Jul 21, 2026 positive
Jul 21, 2026 negative
Jul 21, 2026
Nejatian mandated Opendoor return to office within one week or exit
“So Open Door had gone fully remote. So at nine a.m. That Monday, I told the entire company, hey, Open Door is going to be back in the office next Monday. If you don't plan to be in one of these offices, we appreciate your help, but you're no longer with us.”
Jul 21, 2026 positive
Jul 21, 2026 positive
Jul 21, 2026 negative
Nejatian: Remote work generally fails, with Shopify being a rare exception
“First of all, I don't think remote works. Generally, it only works for Shopify, and that's because we built more software to make remote work than anyone reasonably thought we could. And I think the jury has fully come back on this topic, that companies that a…”