power
4 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement May 5, 2024 by Hamilton Helmer · said 8 times in 2 episodes since 2022 · across every show →
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2022 8 mentions in 2 episodes 4 per episode
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May 5, 2024
Helmer: Corporate value creation reduces entirely to power, market size, and execution
“There are this incredible, I mean, business is really hard, right? And there are just a multitude of things you have to pay attention for. I'm right because all those things fall into those three categories. So it's an exhaustive set, and it's just, it's, it s…”
May 5, 2024 positive
Helmer: Founders should evaluate strategic power before achieving product-market fit
“Even before you have product market fit,
It's worth thinking about strategy. Now it's not strategy in the sense of sort of this fully articulated strategic planning.
We're going to do this.
These are going to be the competitors.
This is going to, how we're goi…”
Jun 13, 2024 neutral
Pfeffer: Attaining power is a self-fulfilling dynamic that erases past transgressions
“Life is not homeostatic at all. That life is actually self-fulfillment. If I believe you're powerful, you will become more powerful. If I believe you have no power, you will wind up with almost no power. And that therefore, it is all forgotten and forgiven.”
Jun 13, 2024 neutral
Pfeffer: People confuse power as a tool with how it gets used
“I see people with hammers hitting other people on the head. That does not mean that a hammer is not a useful tool. You can take a screwdriver and stab it into somebody's belly. I have a very dear friend who we'll probably talk about later in the podcast. Laura…”