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Saylor: Bitcoin will become a $10T primary global treasury reserve asset
“You know, people that understand Bitcoin think it's going to grow to become the 10 trillion dollar asset that gold is, and then it's going to replace negative yielding sovereign debt and then corporate debt and ultimately it will become the primary treasury re…”
Yeung: Meta ad buying is commoditized; creative assets now handle the targeting
“Ad buying is like a commodity, right? Now, yeah, before, a few years ago, you have to be really, really good at ad buying, but now Meta does all of that for you already, right? You don't need to do the targeting. You don't need to do all this stuff, right? All…”
Puri: Scaling experiential businesses requires treating in-person events as content sets
“The content is the business, not the tours. So the tours are just content. Whereas I think what most people do is they say, I'm going to make content to try to get people to book the tour because that's where I get the transactional money. And so that's the re…”
Puri: MrBeast trains key executives by having them shadow him continuously
“Like, from morning to night, like, the guy, I remember one guy he hired, he was also Jimmy's alarm clock. Like, he would go wake him up, and from the moment Jimmy woke up, they were together, till the moment Jimmy signed off to go to sleep, and he would do tha…”
Foster: Pure AI agents guess and waste tokens; deterministic workflows are more reliable
“Agents, agents, they kind of just guess what to do, right? And if they're smart enough, they guess right most of the time, but sometimes the agents guess wrong. And the second thing is agents are using tokens, right? We probably heard token maxing, right? And …”
Foster: Cheap software creation will make personality the main differentiator
“Like when it is so cheap to build software, I think you're going to see more software that has
Like a personality to it.”
Foster: AI weighs in on every high-stakes decision at Zapier
“Well, I would say like any high stakes decision, the AI is weighing in on now. Like, you know, there's sort of a seat at the table and, you know, the exec meeting and the board meetings and all that sort of stuff where we're asking the AI to like, Surface thos…”
Foster: Cognitive limits will restrict humans to managing roughly 20 AI agents
“Well, so you could, but the thing is, you're only gonna be able to keep up with, what, 20 agents? Cause it's gonna keep assigning you tasks and more things to do and more things to do. And so there still is like a, there still is like a limit.”
Foster: Future worker value and pay will depend on managing AI agents
“Yes. I feel pretty confident that that is the direction we're heading to.”
Liemandt: Alpha School requires second graders to run a 5K
“Our second graders gotta run a five K. Our eighth graders have to do a tough mudder, or they also all have to cross the finish line at the same time.”
Alpha School outpaces 100k-student district in perfect STAAR scores
“And, you know, we have a building with a few hundred people in Austin, Who get more hundreds on the Texas car than a school district of a 100,000.”
Liemandt: 46% of Alpha School students prefer school over vacation
“Four weeks ago when we surveyed all our kids, 46% of our students said, I would rather go to school than go on vacation.”
Joe Liemandt invested $1 billion of software wealth into Alpha School
“I put in a billion dollars for my software company as the first payment.”
Liemandt: In 20 years, 90% of parents will still use physical schools
“In 20 years, parents are going to drop their kids off at a building. 90% of parents, you have homeschool little stuff, but it's a niche. Nine percent of parents are going to drop their kids off at a building. And in that building are other kids and adults”
Twelve billionaire philanthropists warned Liemandt not to invest in education
“Before I did this and put my billion dollars in, I talked to a dozen billionaires who'd all spent over, had all spent over a billion dollars on education. And to a person, every single person said, don't do it.”
Liemandt: Software buyout firm saw $20B pipeline of distressed SaaS deals
“I saw twenty billion dollars of pipeline companies that were, they were looking at about splitting the cash flows buying for a dollar.”
Parr: Swedish twin study found 45% of investing behavior is genetic
“And the results that he found Was basically, and concluded, was that 45% of savings and investing patterns and behaviors was genetic, which I find to be astounding.”
Puri: AI will outperform financial analysts, forcing them into field data gathering
“It's not guys sitting at spreadsheets, because guess what? The AI is much better at sitting there looking at a spreadsheet, reading every earnings report, listening to every earnings call on earth simultaneously, and coming up with the right decision. It's gon…”
Puri: Entrepreneurs should pick businesses by preferred sales motion, not industry
“I don't need to pick an industry I love, or a product I love. I need to pick a sales motion that I love. Because guess what? Like, if you have a product, Doesn't matter what the niche is. If it's grown via enterprise sales, most of your time is going to be spe…”
Musk: Aging is a solvable problem governed by a synchronizing biological clock
“I do think it is a very solvable problem. When we figure out what causes aging, I think we'll find it's incredibly obvious. It's not a subtle thing. The reason I say it's not a subtle thing is because all the cells in your body pretty much age at the same rate…”
Puri: $20K humanoid robots will surpass the iPhone as biggest product ever
“Dude, these robots, When they work, it's going to be the biggest product ever invented in the history of mankind, bigger than the iPhone, bigger than anything. When you get a 20,000 dollar robot that can do, do work, it is the biggest product ever.”
Smith: US Longevity Gap with G7 Is Driven Primarily by Diseases of Despair
“America is falling behind some of the other, like, G-seven nations around longevity, but I thought it was because generally people were dying earlier but it's actually due to these things called diseases of despair. So just like alcoholism drugs, etc. But if y…”
Microsoft retail staff make better sales hires than Apple order-takers
“You can work in an Apple store and you are an order taker. Go down the hall to the people at the Microsoft store who have to sell a slate two doors down from a Mac, MacBook Air. Those people know how to sell. The fact that they're not starving is unbelievable.…”
AI hyperscalers are building a commodity tooling layer, not capturing ultimate value
“I think they're creating the tooling layer. That then a lot of us are now using to create real businesses on top of. So I kind of go back to the internet breakthrough and internet revolution and think about, okay, like the browsers, everybody was super excited…”
Graham Weaver: PE playbooks fail unless firms install their own operators
“The reason you can make that playbook consistent is because you're putting your own people in to run it. This took me 10 years to figure out, but we would back founders and then say, Hey, we have all these great ideas and the founders would just smile and writ…”
Weaver: Proprietary data and deep interfaces are the only AI app moats
“I think if you can build proprietary data sets, which is harder than it sounds or you can build really deep interfaces with your customers, which is also harder than it sounds. Those are moats you can build, but really, I think sometimes what you're really, yo…”
Weaver: AI technology across many industries will become commoditized, not a differentiator
“I think the technology in many, many industries is going to be commoditized... I think ultimately, I think most people are gonna have access to the same technology. So it'll be a tool and it'll help everybody, but it's not gonna be the thing, you know, it's no…”
Weaver: VC-backed AI rollups in property management lack technological advantage
“I know there's been a bunch of AI native rollups launched by venture firms in property management. What tech, like what's their real advantage? Like, are they gonna have technology that's better than anyone else? I would say the answer is no.”
Graham Weaver: Building businesses yields 100x returns versus 2x from cost-cutting
“Building things is a lot more durable than ripping things apart. Cause you can make like one and a half times your money, or maybe, maybe even two times your money ripping stuff If you're lucky, if you time the exit just right. But if you actually build someth…”
DHH: Young people are smarter when it comes to liquid intelligence
“Well, it's not wrong. In a certain category of intelligence, this form of liquid intelligence, smart fast signups, firing stuff. Young people are smarter. Like, just like they run faster, right?”
DHH: Basecamp would never have created Ruby on Rails with venture funding
“If we had raised, I don't know, twenty million dollars and hired a hundred people, we would just use the same shit as everyone else, and we would never have come up with Ruby on Rails.”
DHH: Surveillance advertising monetizes low-intent traffic by targeting identity over context
“Surveillance Capital flipped it on its head that it did not matter whether intent was there. If we know everything about everyone at all times, all that matters is eyeball time, because now we can pinpoint whether an ad should be shown or not shown on the basi…”
DHH: 37signals ignored its data scientist for a decade, trusting intuition instead
“And after trying that for over a decade, Jason and I finally came to the conclusion in honesty that we never did what the numbers told us to do. What we would do was, we would do whatever the hell we wanted to do, and then if the numbers supported that, we'd g…”
DHH: Tech companies now reserve upside for VCs unlike Shopify's IPO
“Shopify didn't do as so many other companies do now, which is essentially reserve all the upside to insiders and their VCs, and then go public when it's already kind of plateaued, right? Like, from where they were to where they are now, an amazing ride for the…”
DHH agrees with the Silicon Valley consensus that AGI is imminent
“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…”
DHH: AI agents make engineers supercharged operators, not detached project managers
“I thought, when I talked to Lex last summer, that it was going to turn everyone into a project manager of the old type. The kind of project manager who's not really doing the things, just telling other people what to do, and then you got this little shh churn,…”
Puri: Zuru Tech's automated manufacturing cuts homebuilding costs by 10x
“It's basically like more than an order of magnitude. So it's more than 10 times cheaper to build the homes this way.”
Parr: Tech incumbents, not startups, will capture most AI value creation
“The vast majority of value creation is going to be by big companies just getting bigger. I just think that it's much easier for Salesforce to get more efficient and launch new features than it is a new company, or at least picking those new companies very hard…”
Puri: Adding Operational Systems Before Organic Growth Slows Startups Down
“There's a specific type of person and a specific moment in time when you need a system tool, and that is when you have growth, but you have a growing headache. So the business is growing healthily, but your headache is growing, you know, maybe even more than t…”
Shaan Puri: DeepSeek outperformed OpenAI models without access to top-tier chips
“You ever heard of DeepSeek? They were in the news recently, created that big algorithm, didn't even have access to the best chips, and somehow outperformed all of the OpenAI models.”
Sam Parr: The United States should institute mandatory military service
“I actually do think that America should have a mandatory I think Scott Galloway said this. I've agreed with this for a long time. We should have mandatory service for American military. I think that would be great.”
Shaan Puri: Dominating AI will probably create the next global superpower
“And now with the AI thing, it's like, it's not just a symbolic victory. It's actual, like, total domination of the world's most powerful technology and will probably create the next global power.”
Galloway spends $1.5M to $2M annually on fractional private jets
“It's about, I spend about one and a half or two million dollars a year, but a friend of mine from high school I really like,
A Mormon kid getting married in a weird place.
I'm gone.
Why?
Because I have a f***ing private plane.”
Galloway says billionaires buying art and wine remain uncultured douchebags
“Art and wine. Art is I'm trying to buy culture. I've been a boring douchebag my whole life. So all of a sudden I'm going to start overspending on art and it makes me interesting. No, it doesn't. You're still the same douchebag.”
Galloway is selling his American stocks to diversify and avoid losing
“Yeah, I'm selling down my American stocks, mostly because I'm diversifying, because I don't want to lose.”
Galloway: American equities are too expensive while Europe is on sale
“I think America's too expensive right now. I think Europe's on sale.”
Galloway: $40B child tax credit was stripped while $120B Social Security COLA passed
“Forty billion dollar child tax credit that would benefit young families stripped out of the infrastructure bill, but the hundred and twenty billion dollar cost of living adjustment for Social Security flies right through.”