Winston Weinberg
13 statements across 1 episodes · 4 bullish · 5 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement May 12, 2026 by Winston Weinberg · across every show →
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May 12, 2026 positive
May 12, 2026 positive
Weinberg screens out 99% of meetings by forcing written paragraph justifications
“When I get really bad at it, I ask my chief of staff to force me to write a paragraph about why I'm going to take a meeting, full paragraph about why I should take a meeting. And it's so easy if you do it that way, because for 99% of meetings or events or what…”
May 12, 2026 neutral
Weinberg: Harvey abandoned a $700M acquisition after securing $500M equity
“The idea was basically we were gonna buy this company that ended up, it was 10 times bigger than us, people-wise and about the same, like, we were gonna, trying to buy the company For the same, a little bit higher valuation than we are valued at. We tried to b…”
May 12, 2026
Weinberg: Harvey has never fired anyone for making too many mistakes
“No one at the company ever has been let go because they made too many mistakes. It's never happened. I've, I have personally never done it. I've never, ever fired someone or anything like that because they made too many mistakes.”
May 12, 2026 positive
Weinberg: Founders must focus on product once distribution starts because sales cannot scale
“Once you get to a certain level of distribution, and by that I just mean some customers know who you are, founders should spend almost all of their time on product. All, like, as much as possible. The biggest mistakes I've ever made as a, as an exec are I step…”
May 12, 2026 positive
Founders possess a cognitive load advantage over executives due to historical context
“The main advantage of being a founder of a company is if you are always on, which I tried to be, What you have is you have the context from day one, right? And if you're always on, your brain, all your brain has to do is do the delta between day one and day tw…”
May 12, 2026
Weinberg: People struggle to say no because they seek short-term validation
“The reason I think people have a really hard time saying no is they say yes to a lot of things that make them look good in the short term instead of being able to take the pain of Ignoring it and then doing so well because you ignored it that people back off.”
May 12, 2026 negative
Weinberg: Harvey missed product launches after miscommunicating a five-year vision doc
“Remember in like Q three of last year, I wrote this like long doc and it was like the vision for the product for like five years or whatever, a long time. And I think it was interpreted as like, okay, we should go build that right now is a huge mistake. And we…”
May 12, 2026 negative
Weinberg: Second and third years of law school need massive overhaul
“And then the second and third year of law school, I think those need to be massively changed. Because the second and third year of law school you kind of take like some specialty courses and things like that. I don't think it's as relevant anymore. You need a …”
May 12, 2026 negative
Weinberg: Hiring senior executives early would have been a huge mistake
“I think I was told to hire senior executives very, very early on, and I refused, and then I refused too long. I refused, like, I'd say about six months too long, but if I would have taken the advice when it was given, I think it would have been a huge mistake.”
May 12, 2026 negative
Weinberg: Do not hire hyper-credentialed candidates who have never failed
“And I think that there are just so many folks that have these such prestigious backgrounds and they've never gotten a B in their entire lives, like ever probably. Right. And so they think everything is the end of the world. Right. And you can't hire people lik…”
May 12, 2026 negative
Weinberg: CEO stress creates company thrash as headcount scales
“When you're like a 50 person company, And the CEO is stressed about something, right? Everyone kind of knows each other. And so they all kind of like know how to react to that stress and they can kind of absorb it and we all move on. When you're an 800 person …”
May 12, 2026 neutral
Weinberg: Ignore smooth-running parts of company and focus solely on burning bottlenecks
“Like if there is a part of the company that is running super well and there are no bottlenecks, I ignore it entirely, like absolutely entirely. And I try to only focus on the things that are like burning. And I try to focus on like the number one thing that's …”