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What 12 Years of Failure Taught Steve Jobs About Success
- ▶ 35:41 unnamed speaker This is one of the luckier stories in Silicon Valley history.
Mental Models That Change How You Think | Bill Gurley
- ▶ 4:31 Bill Gurley But yeah, I, I, I've often thought that many of the VCs in Silicon Valley would benefit from having a better understanding of finance.
- ▶ 16:29 Bill Gurley I would say it's kind of a quiet secret, just because I haven't read it on the front page of, of the journal, that, you know, especially from a breadth standpoint, like a volume, the companies are using these models all over Silicon Valley.
- ▶ 24:21 Bill Gurley Having spent a ton of time in China over the past 20 years, it's hard for me to adopt this mindset of vilification that's heavy amongst many in Washington and now many in Silicon Valley.
You Don’t Need To Innovate To Be Successful | FarmVille Creator
- ▶ 42:41 Mark Pincus Or, and then we were damaged goods, and then it was, like, out of a scene from Silicon Valley, the show, and I started meeting with all these second-tier VCs, and eventually, Fred Wilson
Ai Goes Parabolic | OpenAI Co-Founder Greg Brockman
- ▶ 29:18 Greg Brockman And I think that is the negative side of, like, Silicon Valley culture, right? 2 times in the scene
Michael Ovitz: The Psychology of Power
- ▶ 37:20 Michael Ovitz And to their credit, they said, we want someone who's not beholding to anyone in Silicon Valley, someone who thinks out of the box, and someone who's fearless at going up against the other people on the board.
- ▶ 1:16:00 Michael Ovitz I was up in the valley once, and Max Levchin is a great guy, founded Affirm and PayPal, co-founded PayPal.
Be Your Best in 2026: The Most Important Lessons from The Knowledge Project (2025)
- ▶ 13:41 Bret Taylor I think that most of the Silicon Valley, great Silicon Valley CEOs came from engineering backgrounds.
Steve Wozniak: The Engineer Who Built Apple [Outliers]
- ▶ 0:16 Shane Parrish Then he did something that Silicon Valley still doesn't quite understand, something that violated every rule of how you're supposed to win in the Valley. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:32 Shane Parrish Silicon Valley didn't exist in 1957. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:58 Shane Parrish Something that revealed the fundamental difference between Steve Wozniak and almost everyone else in Silicon Valley.
Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evans
- ▶ 19:04 Benedict Evans A long time ago, I used to get these questions about, like, how can we replicate Silicon Valley?
- ▶ 57:01 Benedict Evans So there's a bunch of, like, um, maxims or sayings, that's probably, I wouldn't want to dignify them as, like, theses or anything else, but there's a whole bunch of maxims and sayings in venture, um, which, you know, we could have a… 2 times in the scene
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport
- ▶ 7:21 Shane Parrish So if we think of the beats between being in China and ending up in Silicon Valley, what are they? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:16 Ryan Petersen But for me, it was amazing, because I'm not from, I hadn't been living in the Silicon Valley ecosystem. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:30:13 Ryan Petersen And then one day I was at a party at a house in Silicon Valley, not like a fun party, but like, you know, gathering a cocktail event or something.
Netflix Founder Reed Hastings on Scaling High-Trust Culture & Bold Judgment
- ▶ 2:15 Shane Parrish Discover in this conversation how he builds and protects A-player cultures, outflanks giants by rewriting the rules, and ports Silicon Valley principles into brick-and-mortar ventures and classrooms alike.
Andy Grove: Only The Paranoid Survive [Outliers]
- ▶ 17:55 Shane Parrish Silicon Valley's origin traces back to December, 26, 1947, when three scientists at Bell Laboratories created the first working transistor. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:59 Shane Parrish The exodus had begun with the traitorous eight engineers who had abandoned Shockley's lab to form Fairchild, and now Fairchild itself was spawning a second generation of Silicon Valley startups. 3 times in the scene
Elad Gil: How to Spot a Billion-Dollar Startup Before the Rest of the World
- ▶ 1:46 Shane Parrish My opinion, he's one of the most underrated figures in Silicon Valley.
- ▶ 7:58 Elad Gil Really the, the founding story of Silicon Valley goes back to the defense industry and then the semiconductor industry, right? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:31 Elad Gil But a lot of other people came out of universities that just weren't on the radar for people who tended to back things in Silicon Valley. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:14:54 Elad Gil Um, Scott, the CEO of Cognition, is a great example of that, where he knows a lot of founders in Silicon Valley, and one of the reasons they all know each other is through these competitions, and as a way to aggregate people growing up all… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:25:40 Elad Gil So if you look, for example, there's, there's this, there's this thing that you should always have a co-founder or an equal co-founder.
- ▶ 1:27:49 Elad Gil Yeah, so, um, Android all happened in a unique moment in time where Google had just shut down Maven, and defense had suddenly become very unpopular in Silicon Valley, and people were making arguments that ethically you shouldn't support…
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan: Turning Ambitious Misfits into Founders
- ▶ 2:22 Shane Parrish If you're curious about Silicon Valley secrets, the present and the future of AI or how true innovation gets funded, this conversation is for you.
- ▶ 24:05 Shane Parrish Why Silicon Valley?
- ▶ 37:54 Garry Tan Uh, I mean, maybe it's even surprising because that's not a word that you might associate with Silicon Valley founders. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:55 Garry Tan Arguably every Silicon Valley company, period.
Bret Taylor: A Vision for AI’s Next Frontier
- ▶ 10:56 Bret Taylor Um, and, you know, I think, uh, sometimes it's a business outcome, sometimes it's a product goal, but I found that, um, if you went to most of the, like, larger acquisitions, uh, in the Valley, and you, two weeks after it was closed,…
- ▶ 12:51 Bret Taylor Most acquisitions in the Valley are a larger firm acquiring a private firm.
- ▶ 23:37 Bret Taylor I think that most of the Silicon Valley, great Silicon Valley CEOs came from engineering backgrounds.
- ▶ 49:25 Bret Taylor I don't know when that will happen, but I do think, you know, by some definition you could argue that it's happening already in the sense that every engineer in Silicon Valley is already using coding agents and, um, platforms like Cursor… 2 times in the scene
Timothy Eaton: How to Build an Empire (And Why It Crumbled) [Outliers]
- ▶ 19:31 Shane Parrish Before Silicon Valley invented data analytics, Eaton's was using catalog orders to predict demand.
How to Win by Being Right and Contrarian: Lessons from Zappos to DoorDash
- ▶ 1:00 Shane Parrish My guest is Alfred Lin, one of Silicon Valley's most successful operators turned investors.
Codie Sanchez: Your Blueprint to Financial Freedom
- ▶ 29:51 Codie Sanchez You know, when we go and invest, I don't know, in 20 or 30 startups a year in our, in our, uh, venture fund, um, the research shows, by and large, the reason why Silicon Valley wants two founders is because the number one risk for…
Ryan Holiday: How to Win the War with Yourself
- ▶ 28:35 Ryan Holiday And there's been a backlash about Stoicism, you know, it's like, oh, this is a bro, a philosophy for bros in Silicon Valley, or this is for meatheads, or, you know, this is for soldiers.
April Dunford: The Marketing Expert
- ▶ 13:21 April Dunford A small company at that point, and only selling to the very low end of the market, but the gorilla in that space at the time was a big, big company in Silicon Valley called Siebel, and so they were a fantastic company, two billion revenue,… 2 times in the scene
Jerry Colonna: The CEO Whisperer
- ▶ 1:29 Shane Parrish Colonna is a certified professional coach, but before all of that, he played a prominent role in the early development of Silicon Valley.
Shreyas Doshi: Better Teams, Better Products
- ▶ 22:58 Shreyas Doshi And, uh, you know, already building a really had, had already built a very compelling product and sort of, you know, at least by Silicon Valley standards was adding product management a little late. 2 times in the scene
Rey Flemings: A Different Definition of Success
- ▶ 1:36 Shane Parrish His unique perspective was honed during his 30 year career bridging Silicon Valley, Hollywood, and family offices.
Frank Slootman: Doing Less, Doing Better
- ▶ 1:13 Shane Parrish Today, my guest is Frank Slootman, one of the most incredible operators that Silicon Valley has ever seen.
- ▶ 12:22 Frank Slootman Well, the, the interesting thing about, about Steve was that, uh, he had a, he had a standard called, uh, insanely great, which, you know, I remember at the time that it was kind of a thing in Silicon Valley.
- ▶ 31:10 Frank Slootman And that's, that's very important because, you know, oftentimes in Silicon Valley, they think that sales is the problem.
Best of 2022: Conversations of the Year
- ▶ 53:43 Reid Hoffman And it's Silicon Valley in China.
Reid Hoffman: Better Decisions, Fewer Mistakes
- ▶ 37:35 Reid Hoffman And it's Silicon Valley in China.
Luke Burgis: The Power of Mimetic Desire
- ▶ 8:54 Luke Burgess He said, oh, you're going to Silicon Valley.
- ▶ 1:34:30 Luke Burgess So I, I, I'm, I'm a, I'm an outlier in, in, in at least the world of Silicon Valley and that I'm, and that I'm a pretty, uh, spiritual person.
Balaji Srinivasan: The Network State
- ▶ 2:19:22 Balaji Srinivasan The 21st century doesn't belong to China, the U S or Silicon Valley.
#130 Diana Chapman: Trusting Your Instincts
- ▶ 35:20 Diana Chapman Grieve, because, you know, I work a lot with Silicon Valley startups, and, um, you know, a lot of them are grieving that they had ideas that they would have a certain number of users by, you know, XYZ, or they'd have so much money in the…
#121 Walter Isaacson: Curiosity Fuels Creativity
- ▶ 19:48 Walter Isaacson Likewise, Silicon Valley becomes a cradle of creativity in the 19 seventies, and for that matter, Philadelphia in the 17 seventies.
- ▶ 20:52 Shane Parrish I like the idea of these pockets of sort of innovation that crop up, whether it's Britain or Florence or Silicon Valley. 3 times in the scene
#118 Doug Conant: Leadership With Integrity
- ▶ 41:49 Doug Conant I talk to you when I'm out on the West Coast, or I'm talking to folks in Silicon Valley, it's like, my perspective is discounted, which is annoying, but understandable, and because I'm almost 70 years old, and how could I possibly…
#107 Matt Ridley: Infinite Innovation
- ▶ 20:33 Matt Ridley The, the fact that you've started a business and it went wrong was actually quite often a good thing in the eyes of venture capitalists in Silicon Valley.
- ▶ 45:47 Shane Parrish I mean, for the last 50 years it's been, say, Silicon Valley in California, and that seems to be coming to an end right now, and before that it was Victorian Britain, and then, you know, before that it was Renaissance Italy, um, and at…
#105 Seth Godin: Failing On Our Way To Mastery
- ▶ 43:39 Seth Godin A lot of what happens in Silicon Valley is friction reducing activities, but these friction reducing activities create their own sort of friction.
#99 Kris Cordle: Releasing the Ego
- ▶ 7:10 Chris Cordell And I feel lucky in Silicon Valley, there's so many interesting individuals.
- ▶ 18:45 Chris Cordell You know, Silicon Valley is, talk about a cult, you know, the cult of Silicon Valley in the community.
- ▶ 35:31 Chris Cordell And, uh, it's called what's your hour in Silicon Valley time.
#98 Sahil Lavingia: Observing the Present
- ▶ 9:20 Sahil Lavingia And, you know, Silicon Valley is kind of funny because there's this concept of we're friends.
- ▶ 16:11 Sahil Lavingia I mean, Silicon Valley is, is a game of finding these crazy outsized returns.
#95 Code Cubitt: Coachability Is Critical
- ▶ 13:00 Code Cubitt Ours is, you know, especially in, in a, a tier two market like Canada, if you will, as opposed to Silicon Valley, you know, there's less unicorns born here.
#86 BJ Fogg: The Science of Lasting Change
#85 Bethany McLean: Crafting a Narrative
- ▶ 48:41 Bethany McLean He could be, and part of, part of what's gone wrong in modern Silicon Valley is that everybody believes he's the rule, right?
#81 Jason Calacanis: Intelligent Risk
- ▶ 1:21 Shane Parrish This conversation focuses on poker, investing, decision-making, the culture of Silicon Valley,
- ▶ 6:53 Jason Calacanis How do people perceive me in Silicon Valley?
- ▶ 35:10 Jason Calacanis To have events where we pull in more people who are less represented in Silicon Valley. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:39 Jason Calacanis It was, it's a pretty famous story here in Silicon Valley. 2 times in the scene
#79 Esther Wojcicki: The “TRICK” to Raising Successful People
- ▶ 1:04 Shane Parrish Today I'm talking with Esther Wojcicki, the godmother of Silicon Valley.
- ▶ 1:25:16 Esther Wojcicki Bill Campbell was this amazing human being, this coach, who coached a lot of Silicon Valley CEOs.
#67 Jim Collins: Keeping the Flywheel in Motion
- ▶ 7:31 Jim Collins When there was a gathering of, I think, the top 500 Silicon Valley leaders for a, for a meeting, I believe it was with the president or something, but he didn't get an invitation.
#61 Jonathan Haidt: When Good Intentions Go Bad
- ▶ 20:18 Jonathan Haidt Um, the, in Silicon Valley, the norm has been, you know, we, they, they don't let their kids use social media and that's been going on a long time.
#56 Daniel Gross: Catalyzing Success
- ▶ 14:41 Daniel Gross Um, I think, I think it was so, so my, my backstory is, is kind of weird, not weird in the context of Silicon Valley, but, but weird in the global context, I'm originally from Jerusalem, Israel, uh, where I was born and raised. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:15 Daniel Gross Um, there's a trend in Silicon Valley today of being incredibly data-driven, uh, and, you know, kind of the meme, uh, and by data-driven, I mean, you know, for, um, for context is you collecting a lot of metrics about how people are using…
- ▶ 1:20:11 Daniel Gross You know, that you're improving the lives of others, and I certainly think I have a little bit of a privileged situation here, where, you know, I happened to be born in the 21st century in Silicon Valley, and I know how to write software,…
- ▶ 1:21:21 Shane Parrish I mean, you're, you're, Silicon Valley is one of the hotbeds of the world for talent. 3 times in the scene
#53 Howard Marks: Luck, Risk and Avoiding Losers
- ▶ 44:52 Howard Marks Well, what incurred, what started the arg, the article is, is a, is I read a piece quoted some Silicon Valley guy who says, success is never accidental.
#48 Adam Robinson: Winning at the Great Game (Part 2)
- ▶ 6:20 Adam Robinson Silicon Valley has begun to prepare the world for that floating notions of universal basic income, right? 2 times in the scene
#41 Tobi Lütke: The Trust Battery
- ▶ 18:18 Tobi Lütke I had, um, term sheets by all the dream venture capitalists that sort of, um, uh, however stipulated that I would have to relocate the company to, you know, Silicon Valley or a place like this, which I then walked away from. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:51 Tobi Lütke That didn't, that's not true 10 years ago when I was doing my spreadsheets, and, um, there was not that many, and if you put them on a map, there's concentration, sure, but, um, it seems like Silicon Valley can support, like, two to…
- ▶ 44:21 Tobi Lütke Um, I can, I, I've been to a lot of Silicon Valley companies where everyone wears hoodies, uh, like, so this comes in all, uh, where everyone's optimizing for being seen to be similar to the people who happen to get the promotions, and it,…
#39 Tyler Cowen: Thinking About Thinking
- ▶ 5:16 Tyler Cowen But nowadays, say poorer parts of Louisiana, Mississippi, they're not catching up to Silicon Valley.
#35 Robert Greene: Alive Time vs. Dead Time
- ▶ 30:59 Robert Greene How do you apply that to my life working at a software firm in Silicon Valley?
#32 Patrick Collison: Earning Your Stripes
- ▶ 1:25:55 Shane Parrish I want to talk a little bit about the future of e-commerce and maybe Silicon Valley culture, uh, and I know we've got to end soon, but talk to me about how payments, you foresee them changing from not only the customer perspective, but…
- ▶ 1:38:24 Shane Parrish Would you, how would you make an argument right now that San Francisco or Silicon Valley is doing that? 4 times in the scene
#31 Barbara Oakley: Learning How to Learn
- ▶ 1:21:50 Barbara Oakley I mean, it's, I, I always like to say that on, the online world is a mixture of academia and Silicon Valley mixed with a little bit of Hollywood.
#27 Chris Voss: The Art of Letting Other People Have Your Way
- ▶ 1:00:45 Chris Voss So much so that the Silicon Valley female executive one day is talking to her fiancee
#26 Warren Berger: Improving The Questions You Ask
- ▶ 13:22 Warren Berger Um, I, I saw, I heard an interesting, I came across an interesting quote, um, from, it was written by the guy out in Silicon Valley.
#24 Susan Cain: Leading the Quiet Revolution
- ▶ 25:44 Susan Cain Um, this was back in 2006, but I decided that Silicon Valley was likely to be a nirvana for introverts. 2 times in the scene
#22 Adam Grant: Givers, Takers, and the Resilient Mind
- ▶ 45:10 Adam Grant So I think that's starting to change in the sense that, you know, Silicon Valley is, is well known for celebrating failure.
Rory Sutherland: The Psychology of Advertising
- ▶ 20:29 Rory Sutherland This is a criticism I have of Silicon Valley, that what they often do is they take something that a human does, they define its role very, very narrowly, devise an algorithm or a technology which replaces that very narrow role, and then… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:14 Rory Sutherland But there are a few Silicon Valley places experimenting on that.
#18 Naval Ravikant: The Angel Philosopher
- ▶ 1:09:23 Naval Ravikant I don't believe I've been in Silicon Valley and tech business long enough to know that you're better off changing it just by creating something brand new.
- ▶ 1:27:07 Naval Ravikant There are lots of one hit wonders, but how many people consistently seem to do something interesting, uh, build something interesting, make money and do something new.
- ▶ 1:46:55 Naval Ravikant One thing I figured out kind of late is that generally, at least in the tech business in Silicon Valley, great people have great outcomes.
#7 Venkatesh Rao: The Three Types of Decision Makers
- ▶ 35:08 Venkatesh Rao So Ribbon Farm is very much, uh, sort of my exploratory, uh, laboratory of thinking, where I basically do my own thing, and Breaking Smart was much more of, all right, here's a universe of ideas that certain people in Silicon Valley…
#5 Chris Dixon: The State of Venture Capital
- ▶ 4:54 Chris Dixon And there were firms kind of around, it was, it all happened in Silicon Valley around, you know, the rise of firms like Intel, um, Apple, um, you know, those kinds of things, Microsoft, um,
- ▶ 8:03 Chris Dixon It's, it's a, everyone there in Silicon Valley, and by the way, Silicon Valley, people say Silicon Valley, but I think it's also that kind of 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:12 Chris Dixon Um, I do think this, this, this stuff is that a, a lot of people in Silicon Valley believe that,
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