CEO

“I think it's pretty common to do for this to happen where the CEO is like, well, that's the thing I like. Don't take away the one thing I like when there's like the rest of it is just firefighting and politics. Like, you know, I'm not, not super into that bit.”

“People who achieve a lot, CEOs you'd think that like they don't have problems with substance abuse, right? Cause these are highly functioning people, but it actually turns out that they have higher rates of addiction and substance abuse than the general popula…”

“For, I have a new thing that I'll launch that it's live, but I'll announce it later. I'm hiring a CEO for it. I've already like done that and I've never done that early on.”

“I think it's important to not get too emotional about any one company. And that's one of the things I can bring to the table. When you're CEO, you're just so close to it. You're in the forest. I can step back a little bit and sometimes say, look, you know, thi…”

“They mentioned something called a search fund, which is where you essentially can go out and buy some grungy business and become the CEO basically overnight without any money or experience.”

“If you ask the dinner guests, what's for dinner, they will always say steak. And I was like, oh my God, that's so true. Right. It's like, why wouldn't they, you know, it's not their money. They, you know, yes. Don't get me wrong. Like a CEO is incentivized for…”

“The most successful people in the world respond instantly. I cannot believe it's kind of infuriating how true it is. But when you email the billionaire CEO, it's like a 32nd response. And when you email his vice president, it's, you know, it can be a week or s…”

“Even if you hire a great, great CEO to replace you with CEO, like they're, they just don't have that... There's that thing that's present in a founder simply because they were there from the beginning, that they have an extra ounce of, it's not even that they'…”

“So one is to be a great, great CEO. You have to enjoy telling the same stories again and again and again, hundreds of times.”

“Basically to be a CEO or to be a leader, you basically have to recognize that a large percentage of your time is going to be having difficult conversations. And the best way to have a difficult conversation is A, you get it early on. So if you're in a meeting …”

“And if you lose your confidence, you hesitate. And if you hesitate as CEO, then somebody's got to step into that vacuum. And then that's when it becomes very like. Political and dysfunctional.”

“And by the way, like whatever, like, you know, people always make you into cartoon when you get to that level, he is, you know, for sure, like a top two or three best CEO in the last 40 years.”

“The thing executives, if you're talking to a CEO, the most precious commodity that CEO has is time, and it's, Information inbound absorption time, information processing time, decision time, and so if you can get super efficient in communicating to a CEO and s…”

“I've got them like an AI that argues back. I think this is a really important thing that every like leader needs to build. I think there's a lot of CEOs out there, a lot of leaders out there that are talking to an AI that just agrees with them all the time. An…”

“If you're a CEO of a company, if you're running a company right now, which I think a lot of people listening to this are, there's a good chance you're not being hardcore enough”