Puri: Apply a 'charisma discount' to persuasive speakers and amplify deadpan ones
Shaan Puri · I run a $180M+ company...here's how I'm using AI on a daily basis · Jan 24, 2025 · at 48:13
Shaan Puri explains his mental model for evaluating pitches after listening to Andrew Wilkinson pitch Iris Energy.
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“I apply basically a discount factor. It's like a charisma discount. So the more persuasive somebody is about everything, the more I have to discount to some degree. It doesn't mean I just like throw it away. Right. But I have to be careful not to get overly excited. And then the opposite is true in the other case. Like when somebody's got like the David Blaine deadpan delivery of everything, And then they're saying something that sounds exciting. I'm like, wait, if that sounds exciting coming from you, that means it must be 10 times more exciting than you're actually giving it. And there's actually like an amplifier there.”
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