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Hastings: Dave Chappelle is not anti-trans
“Which I don't believe that Dave is anti-trans, but he definitely takes on some of the issues”
Hastings argues government-run schools are the fundamental problem in American education
“I came to believe that the government running the schools was sort of the essence of the problem and that it would be better and more effective to have non-profits. Like, if you look at the university sector, you know, and all of our top universities, they're …”
Hastings: Netflix culture was not cutthroat despite external perception
“So, in Netflix there was the meritocracy and outsiders thought it was cutthroat, thought it was Hunger Games. But inside it really wasn't. People looked out for each other, helped each other quite a lot, but in the words we used to describe it we're not warm a…”
Hastings rejects Andy Grove's famous paranoia maxim as delusional leadership
“It's not literally true, because the paranoid are delusional, ok? And they could, they see everything as a crazy threat, and they can't differentiate what's an important threat, and what's not, and what's reality, ok?”
Hastings: Outperformance of founder-led over professionally managed companies is not a strict correlation
“There are some very bad founder-led companies, there's some very good professional-led companies and there might be some correlation that founder-led ones, you know, are extraordinary, but you know, Microsoft under Satya Nadella has done incredibly well.”