Jess Mah
31 statements across 2 episodes · 18 bullish · 4 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Dec 4, 2023 by Jess Mah · said 7 times in 3 episodes since 2023 · across every show →
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2025 6 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode
2023 1 mention in 1 episode
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Dec 4, 2023 positive
Dec 4, 2023
Dec 4, 2023 bullish
Dec 4, 2023 positive
Jess Mah: Founders do not need personal billions to launch ambitious ideas
“These things don't have to wait until you have a billion dollars in cash is the point. And, but I asked you the question because I found that bio was on my list. Like, oh, I would do more bio stuff. I just fund it. And like, but I know people who could fund it…”
Dec 4, 2023 bullish
Dec 4, 2023 positive
Jess Mah: High earners should merge advice from multiple elite tax strategists
“I've gotten enough of these tax professional intros where now I have a whole collection of them. I call and I can buy the advice from multiple tax professionals and merge it all together. And I think that's the next level. Most people just pick one person and …”
Dec 4, 2023 positive
Paul Graham predicted Sam Altman's massive success to Jess Mah in 2010
“Yeah, I actually, I mean, this was probably 13 years ago now, but I had a one-on-one with Polygram and I asked him to share, like, who do you think the most you know, successful people you've ever met? Like, who will that end up being 30 years from now if we h…”
Dec 4, 2023 negative
Dec 4, 2023 positive
Jess Mah: Elite tax strategy yields higher IRR than the stock market
“Because if taxes impact half your income potentially, if you invest just even five or 10% of your time this year to finding five amazing tax strategists, get all their advice and figure out how to apply it, 10% of your time. It's the upper bound here. And you'…”
Dec 4, 2023 positive
Dec 4, 2023
Jess Mah bootstrapped inDinero to a nine-figure valuation without VC funding
“So I did that for 10 years, grew that to a few hundred people valuation and the hundreds of millions of dollars. But the way I built that business was I didn't raise traditional venture funding. So I didn't bring in VC capital. I only brought in some angel inv…”
Dec 4, 2023 neutral
Mah: Transitioned into biotech by hiring tutors and experienced executives
“And then eventually I decided, you know what? Fuck it. I want to give it a try. I wanna, you know, just learn, and so I hired a biology tutor. I, like, digested all the information, and I brought in people who've been Running biotech companies and who had been…”
Dec 4, 2023
Jess Mah built a six-figure server hosting business at age 13
“When I was 13, I started a dedicated server and co-location business, because that's what I thought you did in high school. That's just, I don't know why, but I thought it was kind of normal. And I grew that set out a few hundred grand in revenue.”
Dec 4, 2023 positive
Jess Mah: Most billionaires operate as holding company managers, not CEOs
“I Google searched, you know, the world's billionaires and I'm like, how do these people become billionaires? And most of them Built companies, a lot of them were diversified holding companies, and they held onto these companies for decades. And a lot of them, …”
May 2, 2025 positive
May 2, 2025
Mah: Sequoia trained scouts using investment memos of failed startups
“I was a scout for Sequoia Capital for many years.
And they would show us a bunch of these like great ideas with amazing traction, especially in consumer internet.
And then they would ask us, would you invest on this memo, yes or no?
And so we would vote, an…”
May 2, 2025 positive
Mah: Affording a private jet requires cash flow, not massive wealth
“And the secret was you don't have to be that successful. You just have to have a big tax bill and good cash flow. And which takes success to get to that point, but it takes some success, but you think a lot less than you think actually because it's like a hous…”
May 2, 2025 positive
May 2, 2025 neutral
Mah: I stepped down as CEO to avoid private jet backlash
“If you're an operating CEO of a company, you're going to get shat on by your employees, your customers, your investors, and I realized that that would be a problem for me a few years ago, so that's why I stopped being an operating CEO, actually.”
May 2, 2025 neutral
May 2, 2025 negative
May 2, 2025 negative
Mah: Loyalty to a single tax accountant is a major mistake
“And I think the mistake people make with taxes is they have their one tax person and that person worked with their parents and they've been loyal, but actually this is a very bad place to have loyalty. It's really good to talk to like, I've talked to dozens of…”
May 2, 2025 positive
Mah: My company is building an AI digital twin of Shaan Puri
“We're actually doing, we're actually training one based off of you as well. So we're going to have it just watch every single video you've been part of. So it knows how to think like you'd be like, Hey, bring Sean into these conversations”
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…”
May 2, 2025 bullish
May 2, 2025 negative
May 2, 2025 positive
May 2, 2025
Mah: Best startup ideas are self-funded, cash-flowing, and complex
“It's roughly an idea that can cash flow that doesn't require a lot of outside funding. We could fund it ourselves. And where it's like boring and complicated enough where random people are not going to copy us that easily or reverse engineer that easily.”
May 2, 2025 positive
May 2, 2025 neutral
May 2, 2025 bullish
Mah: We record all meetings to build employee AI digital twins
“What we're trying to do is have all of our meetings be recorded. So even if it's in person, we're just like turning on granola and having, I have a big, one of those conference speakerphone things and it's just recording everything. And we're going to feed it …”