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Opinion
Lemkin: Do not hire people who complain about burnout
“Lazy people always say they're burnt out... But the people that complain about burnout, I think deserve a scarlet L burned into their forehead and don't hire them.”
Jason Lemkin Jul 17, 2026 ▶ 1:03:11 How Agents Will Steal Your Customers. Plus: The $10K App Our Agent Replaced and the $14 Migration
Assertion Supported
Conrad: Deel and Remote rely on third-party payroll systems country by country
“Companies like Deal and like Remote actually have not built underlying global payroll or payroll really of any kind. And so those companies are sort of secretly running on Other payroll systems country by country.”
Parker Conrad Jun 27, 2023 ▶ 16:23 Rippling CEO Parker Conrad's Theory of the Compound Startup: Disrupting How We Think About Software
Disclosure
DoNotPay aims to replace all lawyers and make the law free
“What we say is we want to replace all of the lawyers and make the law free, but it's not political.”
Joshua Browder Apr 6, 2023 ▶ 8:06 Being a Rebel to Build a Movement: Non-Traditional Approaches to Scale | DoNotPay CEO Joshua Browder
Opinion
Barrett: Silicon Valley overwhelmingly operates on selling to a bigger sucker
“There's like, build a viable business which you care about things like profit margin, things like this, or you just sell to a bigger sucker. Overwhelmingly, Silicon Valley is based upon the latter of those, and like, the reality is at no point relevant in actu…”
David Barrett Nov 17, 2021 ▶ 10:39 The Highs and Lows of Fundraising from Founders That Have Raised $1B w/ Calendly, Coda, LaunchDarkly
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