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Marc Lore refuses to interview candidates with lateral career moves
“Any kind of deviation to that, I don't, I just don't even, won't even interview. So a lateral move, out. Right. You know, move from a Google to Kmart. Sorry, Kmart, but out. Like, I just, I, anything, any little, like, tap that says not top five percent, and s…”
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…”
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.”
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…”
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 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 spends $400K monthly and needs $125M to feel economically secure
“I spend three to 400,000 dollars a month, so if you take that at five million times 25, I need one hundred and twenty-five million to be economically secure.”
Horowitz: a16z Employees Who Criticize Founders on X Are Fired
“If you if you talk smack about an entrepreneur on X, you're fired. It doesn't matter if they're in the portfolio or not. You're just, that's it.”
Puri: It takes 15 months to feel emotional love for a baby
“Took, it takes me like 15 months to love a baby. I care for the baby before then. I wish the baby well. I want no harm to be done to the baby, but do I crave, like, holding and touching and, like, you know, doing the things my wife loves about a baby?”
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.”
Currier: Stan Chudnovsky and I have never lost money for investors
“Stan and I have never failed. We've never lost a dime for anyone. We've always made people money for the last 25 years”
Wilkinson: Claude Saved $100K Annually in Taxes Across Holding Companies
“I actually saved a 100,000 dollars a year of cash taxes by moving an investment from one hold code to another thanks to Claude”
Shaan Puri made 500% buying Facebook against Chamath Palihapitiya's short thesis
“Chamath tweets out the growing short case against Facebook, and he says, regulation is a problem, tax is a problem, antitrust is a problem, all this stuff. I bet on Facebook I'm up five X, so I made 500% on that trade, and so basically they went anti-Bitcoin f…”
Puri: It would take a $50B valuation to buy his Replit stock
“You couldn't buy my stock. You'd have to pay like a fifty billion dollar valuation to take my stock right now. Like I would rather just hold the stock and see where it goes.”
Pujji: Ampush halved headcount while growing revenue after Red Ventures invested
“When they invested in Ampush, I cut the headcount under their sort of tutelage by more than half. And our revenue grew during that time.”
Wilkinson Has Invested $25M to $30M Into Venture Startups
“And so I think I have like. 25 or thirty million dollars of venture.”
Sanwal: Building an IMG Academy-style entrepreneurship school for 6th-to-12th grade
“What I'm trying, what we're working on is building a school of entrepreneur-ing, so it's a in-person, sixth to 12th grade school, you know, if you know the IMG Academy, right, like, for sports, right, like, the basic idea is, like, people go pro in sports at a…”
Puri: Pulled All Money From Robinhood Because CEO Lied About Halts
“I took all my money off of Robinhood after that happened. I just fundamentally, morally was against what had happened. I believe that the CEO lied and is continues to lie basically about what happened during, during that period of time.”
Palantir Founders Initially Asked Alex Karp to Pretend to Be CEO
“And so we actually convinced him to pretend to be CEO for a few years. So that Peter would stop trying to hire like a really like senior, like military guy, but then he was such a good CEO. Then he actually was, he's still CEO, 20 years later.”
Pompliano: Sold 100% of his Ethereum to buy Solana around $65
“Instead, what I did is I bought a little bit of Solana at 48 dollars.
It started to go up a little bit more.
And usually when that happens, people are like, oh, cool.
I was right.
Instead, I doubled the bet at 55.
Like the position is going in your favor.
And …”
37signals Aborted $5M Ad Campaign Because Paid Ads Produced Zero Return
“Last year, we're like, we're gonna spend five million bucks for the first time ever on like ads. We started getting into it in a few months. So we spent a bunch of money and we're like, this is just, it just, It's vanity money because like this isn't doing any…”
Jess Mah is building a biotech company to rehabilitate cancer cells
“And if you could train them and coach your cells, so killing them, let's rehabilitate them, get them to integrate back in with their surroundings, then you could fix cancer. And so we're working on a company around that”
Wilkinson: Tiny forces AR discipline by leaving companies with two weeks' cash
“Chris, Chris and I, we used to leave two weeks expenses in the business. If it meant that if they don't collect their AR, their accounts receivable, they go off a cliff. Now, what they don't know is they're not going to go off a cliff because Tiny, the bank, w…”
Campbell: Researched and modeled strategies to topple foreign dictatorships
“I get so jacked up about the idea of like toppling a dictatorship one day. I get so excited by it. And I'm like, I'm not even kidding. And I'm like, okay, well, if we go after Cuba, it's going to cost this much because I have this idea and this idea.”
Galloway: Investigators tied my Twitter trolls to criticized companies' shareholders
“I hired a firm to unmask some of the people who were attacking me, it was clearly like the same language, and like, they're using fake accounts, and it was almost always someone who had a large financial position, and the company that I said was overvalued.”
Haque put his entire net worth into a leveraged Bitcoin long
“I grabbed all the money I had. It was a couple of thousand dollars and I, well, I didn't just buy Bitcoin. I was like, the degenerate in me, I was like, okay, let me try and maximize this opportunity. So I went on, people know BitMEX. I went leverage long on B…”
Yanowitz kept 100% of his liquid portfolio in crypto until recently
“Of my liquid portfolio, I'm, until very recently, I was a hundred percent in crypto.”
Sam Parr seeded the Trends community by giving influencers free early access.
“A lot of times, particularly in trends, my one of the first communities that I built, I would seed it by having 10, 20, 30 people who I knew were impressive. And I just said, you don't have to pay anything, but you're joining this community. Also on this date,…”
Shkreli: Turned a profit selling Wu-Tang album during the NFT boom
“I decided to sell the Wu Tang album which is a funny thing because there's this NFT bubble and I basically said, oh, like if I turn this into an NFT or sell it to a crypto bro, like, you know, I'll, I might even get my money back on this thing because it was b…”
Shkreli: Top software unicorn CEOs and billionaires backed his startup
“And like, I'm so lucky that these people, some of whom started some of the biggest software companies in our industry literally like maybe the top five unicorns in software, like three of the four CEOs. It was like that where, where like I messaged these guys,…”
Shkreli: Deliberately embraced being a villain after intense media backlash
“I realized like, there's no way out of this and I'm gonna have to embrace being the bad guy. And some people will get the joke and some people won't. But you know, fuck it. If that's what people want, then I'll be the bad guy. And I sort of embraced kind of be…”
Shah: I personally bought the Chat.com domain for eight figures
“I did. As of Transfer the domain yesterday, last night.”
Johnson: I give biological data 100% authority over what I eat
“Blueprint flips that. And it says, my mind has zero authority. My body has a hundred percent authority. So it, the measurement of my heart and liver and lungs and DNA methylation patterns, it directly asks for what it wants via data. And I can never override i…”
Luckey: Anduril sells weapons only as directed by State Dept and DOD
“What it really is, is I will sell to the people that the U S state department and the U S DOD want me to like, if that, that, that, because they have information that I don't, they have intelligence that I do not. And I cannot second guess that and say, oh, yo…”
Parr orchestrated fake engagement for HubSpot's CEO during acquisition talks
“One time when HubSpot was looking to buy us, I saw that Brian Halligan, the then he's the founder and then CEO of the company he joined and I messaged like 80 people and I said, Hey reply to Brian, here's the message to say to him. And so many people commented…”
Dharmesh Shah operates as HubSpot CTO with zero direct reports.
“I have done everything in my In my power to reduce the time I have to spend on things that I'm not good at, right? Which is the things that are kind of non-creative, not a part of that. So I don't have any direct reports, which is unheard of for a company that…”
Dharmesh Shah never met the founders in 80% of his angel deals.
“I've made roughly, I think a little over a hundred investments now across my angel investment. I won't call it a career, but my activities and 80 to 90%. I've never actually talked to the founders or ever met with them. Over Vast majority of my deals, I make t…”
Holiday lied about his debut advance to expose media negligence
“It was, I think it was 200 with some incentives. Although when I announced it I announced that it had been sold for 500,000 dollars because I know, I knew people, nobody actually fact checks press releases. So yeah. So, so the whole point of the book was to pr…”
Katayev systematically restricts resources from his kids to teach them natural resourcefulness
“I suppress resources for my kids systematically. Not like I don't feed them, like they're very, they're doing just fine. Like they're, they go to school and everything. They live in a nice neighborhood, but I systematically make sure that they're not given all…”
Shaan Puri held Terra's Luna after a 100x gain in 2021
“It started the year at, you know, maybe a dollar. It's at currently, you know, a hundred dollars. So it's about a hundred X in a year. It's been a great investment for me and I continue to believe that, that it's going to work.”
Huberman: I started low-dose testosterone therapy at age 45 for research
“I'm 46 years old. I didn't touch it until 45. I went 45 years... I started on my at 40, after 45. But let me so, but let me explain, because I'm actually coming off. So that that, so what I did is I'm researching a book.”
Abraham helped launch the Terra and Luna crypto ecosystem
“One that I was kind of early involved in and helped get off the ground was one called Terra and Luna that just launched a new mainnet that had like 50 to a hundred apps just launched that are super interesting.”
Sethi: Banning indebted customers from flagship courses costs him millions annually
“For example, I don't allow people with credit card debt. To join our flagship programs, the higher end ones. That costs us millions of dollars every year.”
Marc Lore uses open compensation with identical pay per level
“That's why I have a open comp system where everybody knows what everybody else is making and everybody at the same level makes the same amount of money. So women, minorities, everybody makes the same. There's no like this idea that maybe it's not fair.”
Balaji: Interviewed for Senior FDA Role and Turned Down No. 2 Position
“I mean, or rather I was interviewed for a very senior role. And I probably could have been At least number two that was on the table. But I chose not to, I mean, it's now a few years later.”
Parr: Casey Neistat was the only paid speaker at Hustle Con
“I paid Casey Neistat money to speak at HustleCon, which is no surprise. Like you could just Google what a speaking view is. But besides that, I've had probably three, four, 500 people speak. Not once did I ever pay for another speaker. Not one time.”
Parr: Hustle Con secured speakers by bluffing Pandora founder Tim Westergren
“I convinced the founder of Pandora, Tim Westergen to speak. And he was one of the first people I had. The truth is I kind of lied about who else was coming. I said all these people were all these other people were coming to speak. None of them have had actuall…”