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MacInnis: Hopes competitor Deel goes to zero due to its 'criminal behavior'
“I was one of the first investors in Deal, if you've heard of them. I, you know, I was able to exit, I was able to exit that position, and then, you know, hopefully that company's going to zero with their criminal behavior, but whatever.”
Benioff calls Microsoft Copilot 'really a terrible product'
“And I'm running aggressive marketing against Microsoft because they have really a terrible product co-pilot that I'm have to position against and market against.”
Rabois: I refuse to let colleagues talk to consumer customers
“I refuse to allow colleagues of mine to talk to customers.”
Rabois: Criticizing employees publicly optimizes for the system over the individual
“When you give people feedback negative individually, you're optimizing for the atomic unit, not the system. The reason why to do it in public is it's more important for all the colleagues to understand that there's an issue it's being addressed.”
Rabois: High-performance teams do not have psychological safety
“No, no, I don't believe in that at all. Like high performance machines don't have psychological safety. They're about winning.”
Schulhoff: Guardrail Vendors Fabricate Stats and Fail on Non-English
“I know a number of people working at these companies and I am permitted to say these things, which I will approximately say but they tell me things like, you know, the testing we do is bullshit. They're fabricating statistics. And a lot of the times their mode…”
Chen: Big Tech Could Fire 90% of Staff and Move Faster
“Like I used to work at a bunch of the big tech companies, and I always felt that we could fire 90% of people and we would move faster because the best people wouldn't have all these distractions.”
McCabe: Acquired Zendesk was culturally and strategically dead
“Zendesk had been acquired a couple of years prior. They were strategically, energetically, culturally dead. They were upsetting customers in the market. There's an opportunity there. We're doing service.”
Martin: Richard Rumelt does not know much about business
“I don't think that he, like most business academics, he doesn't know much about business, right? Like he hasn't gone out and practiced a lot.”