Annie Duke
13 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 5 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement May 2, 2024 by Annie Duke · said 7 times in 6 episodes since 2022 · across every show →
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brought up most by Lenny Rachitsky (3), Stewart Butterfield (2), Maggie Crowley (1), Jonathan Lowenhar (1)
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2025 2 mentions in 1 episode
2024 1 mention in 1 episode
2023 1 mention in 1 episode
2022 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
Everything said about Annie Duke, oldest first
May 2, 2024 positive
Duke: First Round uses structured forms for independent investment opinions
“We do this, like, for example, at first round, we do this for, we have a structured forum for evaluating a company in terms of whether you should invest in it. Because, you know, there are facts and then there are the way that you model those facts. And so it'…”
May 2, 2024
Duke: People avoid tight feedback loops because facing immediate errors hurts
“It's very, very difficult for human beings to deal with feeling wrong in the moment, even if it helps them in the long run. It's just hard. And the tighter the feedback loop, the more that you risk finding out you were wrong in the short run.”
May 2, 2024
May 2, 2024 neutral
May 2, 2024 negative
Duke: Premortems alone generally fail to change people's plans or behavior
“What you find with pre-mortems, this is actually work. I actually did this work with Marie Schweitzer and Linnea Gombe, who are both at Penn. Then when you have people do pre-mortems it generally doesn't actually change their plan very much, or it changed thei…”
May 2, 2024 negative
May 2, 2024 negative
Duke: Corporate alignment is a stupid myth and shouldn't be expected
“The word alignment is stupid and it shouldn't be used. And I know I'm saying that very harshly, but it's true. It's dumb, because it doesn't exist. Like, you have 10 people in a room, and they're all really different people with different opinions, and they're…”
May 2, 2024 positive
May 2, 2024 positive
Duke: Kahneman's structured hiring rubrics raised hit rates from 50% to 65%
“And then, you know, what he found was after you've gone through that process, if you then sort of use your intuition after having done that, not before, that then you actually can really drastically improve sort of your hit rate on hiring. And in that case, it…”
May 2, 2024
May 2, 2024
Duke: Investors can choose to shorten 10-year feedback loops with intermediate milestones
“There is no such thing as a long feedback loop. You can make a decision about how long the feedback loop is. That is your choice to live in a long feedback loop. And you can choose to shorten the feedback loop. And the way you choose to shorten the feedback lo…”
May 2, 2024 negative
Duke: Senior leaders voicing estimates first silences dissenting team estimates
“Particularly if you're senior, if you say, I think this is gonna take three months to launch, and I was thinking four weeks, you're never gonna hear four weeks from me. Ever. But if we get those opinions independently, you will actually hear that I think it's …”