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Addicted Lab Rats Will Voluntarily Switch From Cocaine to Sugar
“And in animals at least, so rats and mice, we could do these experiments, you could demonstrate that they are, they will be more addicted to sugar than to cocaine or heroin, so these experiments Experiments, some of them were done in France, are sort of perver…”
Singleton Made Teledyne First US TV Maker to Exit Before Japanese Competition
“When American TV manufacturers still dominated the US market, Singleton anticipated the coming Japanese competition and exited the business entirely. This shocked industry observers. Packard Bell had a good market share and solid profits, but Singleton saw the…”
Tenev: Robinhood AI customer support executes transactional backend actions
“Then you have phase three, which is, okay, now I can actually do non-read only actions. I can change stuff. Maybe I'll refund you if, you know, you're not happy with your purchase. You can refund your gold subscription fee. So that involves actually some prett…”
Teledyne Fired Its Entire M&A Team Simultaneously in 1969
“There was a whole team of people at Teledyne who had been taking care of the acquisitions, helping find these companies, working through the acquisition process, integrating them, And they were just laid off all at the same time.”
Duckworth: Fitbit study found no benefit to strict always-or-never goals
“So I will say this too, in the small amount of research I've done, cause we randomly assigned people to, for example, set a rule about how many steps they were going to take. And you know, these are Fitbit users that we Had recruited because they already had a…”
Parrish: Most valuable item in Cettie Rockefeller's wardrobe was a $150 coat
“When they inventory Seti's wardrobe, it told its own story of their lifestyle. The wife of the richest man on earth had owned almost nothing of value. The costliest thing in her closet was a sealskin coat appraised at a 150 dollars.”
Home Depot Allocated Half Its 1996 Olympic Corporate Hospitality to Frontline Workers
“And Home Depot had 2000 packages, and half of them went to vendor partners, and the other half went to everyday associates. They were the only sponsor who gave such a high percentage of hospitality packages to their own employees.”
Tan: The majority of Y Combinator CEOs are now technical
“The CEO of the majority of YC companies, they are technical.”
Revlon founder Charles Revson built a laboratory to reverse-engineer competitor formulas
“His Bronx laboratory was an arsenal of analysis. Spectroscopes breaking down colors, infrared and ultraviolet machines decoding fragrances, atomic absorption equipment, reverse engineering formulas.”
Hoehn: Bestselling book tables of contents are typically divided into 2-4 parts
“If you look in table of contents of bestselling books, they're typically divided into two to four parts, often three.”
Cordle: Slack adopted a version of Amazon's decision memo
“And at Slack, we adopted a form of the Amazon memo.”
Parrish: Keynes observed that failing conventionally is preferred over succeeding unconventionally
“You know, it was Keynes who said it's better to fail conventionally than succeed unconventionally, I believe.”
Grant: Corning Fellows must author $100M patents and support others' patents
“And one of the first criteria is, are you the first author in a patent that's worth at least a hundred million US dollars?... So we're gonna say there are other criteria too, which include, are you a supporting author on other people's patents?”