James Currier
13 statements across 4 episodes · 5 bullish · 4 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Mar 12, 2025 by Shaan Puri · said 30 times in 10 episodes since 2021 · across every show →
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brought up most by Shaan Puri (17), Rick Marini (9), Sam Parr (4)
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2026 1 mention in 1 episode
2025 20 mentions in 5 episodes 4 per episode
2024 5 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode
2023 3 mentions in 1 episode
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Mar 12, 2025
Puri: Major life decisions are choices to join or leave human networks
“And when he talks about your life on network effects, he's, his idea is basically everything. If you could take all your decisions you make and instead of thinking of them as things you did or decisions you made or just like events in your life, if you looked …”
Apr 15, 2025
Apr 15, 2025 positive
Currier: Speed is the single biggest determinant of founder success
“So the number one thing that it rolls up into is speed. So you could lay out 16 characteristics that you're looking for, but all of those lead to one thing, which is speed. And so if we measure speed when we're meeting with the founders, that's the main thing …”
Apr 15, 2025 positive
Apr 15, 2025 negative
Apr 15, 2025 neutral
Apr 15, 2025 negative
Currier: Isolating in an incubator instead of joining Facebook was a mistake
“Our structure of the incubator wasn't super network centric. It was creativity centric. It was isolated a little bit, and that was a mistake. And had I gone and worked at Facebook and learned more about that ecosystem, or had I gone and become a venture guy or…”
Apr 15, 2025 negative
Apr 15, 2025 negative
Currier: Bay Area culture shifted from creation to excessive money focus
“25 years ago, people who were coming to the Bay Area were coming because they were generative. They were coming because they wanted to create. And then because so much money was made by 2008, 2013, it's changed the tenor a little bit here, and we're ruining th…”
Apr 15, 2025 positive
Apr 15, 2025 positive
May 2, 2025 positive
Puri: Position your network value like an API
“My buddy James career has this great phrase. He goes, you want to turn yourself into an API. And what he means by that, he goes, you know, like a website has an API, which basically says, here's what I can offer you. I can give you location data. So you ping m…”