Silicon Valley

“The way that I described San Francisco and Silicon Valley is to me, it's kind of like Hollywood, but it's only, only if you're trying to make like a big blockbuster hit. I believe that you can make those anywhere. It might be a little bit more helpful if you a…”

“Crypto is not just, you know, the next wall street. It's also the next Silicon Valley because decentralized social networks and so on are built there, but even less, obviously it's the next Yale law and Columbia school of journalism and Kennedy school of gover…”

“There's more to life than metrics, you Silicon Valley nerds. That's a huge mistake that all these ROI attribution positive. Sometimes, in fact, the best companies know that's why they advertise in Times Square. They can't track that, but they do it because it'…”

“This industry runs on trust. And the reason you and I can do deals on a handshake is because we trust each other and we, and there's a lot of founders out there who are, The majority of people are not trying, are not duplicitous or lying or committing fraud. A…”

“I didn't know how common that was like swinging or that lifestyle, but it is very common amongst like successful Silicon Valley people. Same thing with drugs like, you know, my either micro dosing or normal dosing of certain drugs.”

“Just like any product in Silicon Valley, you create a funnel. Top of funnel is new fans, new eyeballs. How are you gonna go get them? You need a strategy. Middle of the funnel. How are you gonna get them to get their first taste of you, their first real experi…”

“You build two multi-billion dollar companies, but then you grow a homeless man beard and you like pretend you don't care about it. You give all your money away and you wear a tie dye t-shirt and like, you know, you carry around a notebook and like, that's whil…”

“I actually tell my own employees at onboarding that if you work at a place where your boss is saying that you should be worried because it's one thing to say that to the press. It's one thing to say that in your marketing materials, but you know, if your emplo…”

“I think this is a healthy recycling and flushing of the system. You know, this is the juice cleanse for Silicon Valley, right? This is the detox cleanse for Silicon Valley. It needs to, it needs needed to happen.”

“In Silicon Valley, Lifestyle business is the it's the equivalent of saying no offense to start a sentence. It's like lifestyle business is how VCs pat you on the head and say, that's cute. Oh, oh, one million of revenue. That's cute. You know, we don't invest …”

“I don't think out of the batch of a hundred people that the difference between the winners and losers was intelligence or talent or hard work. I don't believe that that's what was the difference.”

“All the Silicon Valley guys are really when like behind closed doors are really envious of the New York hedge fund guys. Cause they're so liquid. Like they might not actually be as rich per se, but they're so, they make so much cash that it's like, it may as w…”

“So I've done that in America, and they similarly say, like, okay, well, I was the chief medical officer at Google, and we have all these Google engineers, so we do AI, And that's why we can do it in 45 minutes instead of four hours, et cetera, like you're sayi…”

“Most people, when they look at data, they already have a story in their head about what they think happens or what we need to do. And then they simply just search for data. That's going to confirm that story. Or they just like squeeze the data until it fits th…”

“I've always felt that if you build a great Silicon Valley company, internally in your company, you should be a totally normal person, but outside, you should have that, like, 10% crazy. Yeah. It just gives you, like, actually, like, two extra valuation. It jus…”

“The two best early pickers of startups ever in the history of Silicon Valley, both make their decisions based off of just, do they feel like these people are fierce founders and they can figure that out in less than 10 minutes. And then here you have people th…”

“No matter what deal you're in, it is more costly to be out of Ron's network than it is to, you know, try to get, get one up. And because of that, he is ensured that Silicon Valley works.”

“I think it's some of the worst advice I've ever heard in Silicon Valley. So what's your take? My take is that ideas are really fricking important. And if you have the wrong idea, you'd be a great team and you're screwed.”

“That's also why you got to move to San Francisco is because you'll be surrounded by success stories and you'll see them. You'll be like, okay, cool. That guy's not special. I could do it. If you could do it, I could do it. And also everybody around you is simi…”

“Like the herd, certainly out of Silicon Valley is like AGI is imminent. And even between now and AGI, we're going to go through such an intelligence explosion that hold on to socks, right? Yeah, I'm actually now in the consensus on that, which I'm always a lit…”

“However much, I have tremendous respect for everything that's come out of that place. It does have a tendency to produce Uniform thinking around a whole host of big topics, and 37 Signals was born in Chicago at a time where that had zero tech community of note…”

“And then Palmer Luckey made defense cool.”