What Tim Cook’s “Executive Chairman” Move Really Means | Musk vs OpenAI, xAI and Cursor Rumors

“The gummies are the ones that destroy the creatine”

“This is the best cybersecurity attack ever.”

“It feels exactly like Waymo, where for 10 years, people have been like, CRISPR's awesome. You're like, it is awesome. It's very, very cool. But now it's like, oh shit, it works.”

“Baby KJ was a baby who Add, I think it was a liver disorder or just, you know, at birth was identified with something that, that really was a horrible, horrible prognosis. And two scientists fast tracked with the FDA, like a one of one drug. So a drug that was…”

“This is not like a brand, this is like a deep existential society problem, I think, honestly. Like, I don't think branding is going to solve this.”

“And it's like, actually, this was the entire marketing strategy. Right? Like, if you think about it, like, the irony of the whole thing is everyone's like, everyone hates that. It's like, well, your money-raising strategy has been to run around, including the …”

“Reese Witherspoon put this thing on Instagram this week, which is just like, wow, I'm so interested in what's happening with AI, and women are pretty far behind on the learning curve here, and I'm like, curious to help them, and she got so much backlash.”

“We probably, I don't think it will, it won't be published by the time this airs, but we have a very well-known figure in the tech industry who's writing an op-ed for us, laying out an entirely new tax regime, aiming to address this very issue, right? Aiming to…”

“As I've shot my mouth off a lot online, the problem is not basic income. The problem is meaning, right? You can't just, like, pay people and make them happy. They'll just be sadder.”

“You gotta give credit to Jensen for, he managed to create a prize in honor of the Vera Rubin, which is the, his latest technology.”

“Jensen just said, I didn't wake up a loser today. I'm not a loser. You know, it was like a, it was pretty intense.”

“This is a transition plan with John Ternus, who we should talk about, taking over as CEO, and Tim Cook staying on as executive chairman, and him taking on some of the going to the White House diplomatic kind of roles.”

“An exec chairman is someone who's gonna play a lot more golf, but is gonna show up, you know, a couple times a year for what needed, and is gonna mentor the CEO in process.”

“The CEO job that John Ternus is inheriting is not the CEO job that Tim Cook inherited. Like, this is more of an alphabet moment, I think, for Apple. Like this is a three trillion dollar, four trillion dollar company that is, you know, has an enormously importa…”

“If you're executive chairman, then if shit goes wrong, you can step back in. Yeah. It's not a full transition.”

“They're not going to run a search and hire a CEO from another company to run Apple, unless they're like covering.”

“Tim had been telling everyone he knows how tired he is for years, and how he doesn't want the job anymore, and how exhausting it is.”

“I think it will still be very much a cook call, you know, how they're deciding, what are they doing with their manufacturing? What are they doing with their China business”

“Like you can't choose the software people. They are not under the same timelines and same pressure that drive the fundamental business of Apple on a global basis. And so you have a very narrow set of internal choices that you can choose from.”

“This upcoming Monday is scheduled to be the start of the Elon Musk vs. OpenAI trial. The central question of which was, did OpenAI have the right to convert from a nonprofit to a for-profit, and what should Elon be compensated as well, having been one of the b…”

“This conversion of being like, oh, we're just doing a research project. Don't worry, we're scraping the entire internet, but it's just for good. It's just for a research project. And then flipping that into, oh, no, actually it isn't. I just think it was like …”

“I think almost every rights holder, right, would have said no effing way if it had been transparent what they were going to do, and they were going to become a for-profit, whereas everyone kind of was like, okay, and looked the other way.”

“I think there is a greater than not chance that they settle before then or that they postpone.”

“Musk has said he will donate the damages owed to him to basically, it wouldn't technically be a donation, but to the OpenAI Foundation. So he is not asking to be left with, like, a piece of this operating company or, like, cash in this bank account. He's basic…”

“The game, it doesn't even have to do with cashflow. It doesn't have to do with traditional business metrics. It is literally just like warring city states that thrive on narrative, right? And storytelling.”

“The information reported this week, not only unsurprisingly, is he getting super voting shares in the SpaceX IPO, but he now Elon has a really aggressive comp plan as well that will give him tens of millions of shares if I think the market cap goes to 6.6 tril…”

“There's no scenario where Cursor is worth sixty billion dollars.”

“You've got big foundation model companies are out there buying the slack instances of failed startups to get more data.”

“Every single model company is out of data and they need more human generated data in order to make and improve their models.”

“Meta now tracking everything its employees do and all the keystrokes that they do on their computers.”

“We did that at Thin for our own teams. We did that for third parties, like Airbnb and a bunch of other people and operations teams that start automating and streamlining work.”

“Computer use models are less than 40% effective right now.”

“There's only fifty million people that, that write software in the world.”

“The fact that I can do so much more on my own and you can do so much more on your own just means we don't need to include as many people that we don't have to play nicely with others as much.”