Kaz Nejatian
26 statements across 3 episodes · 9 bullish · 3 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Sep 15, 2025 by Keith Rabois · said 17 times in 3 episodes since 2025 · across every show →
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2026 2 mentions in 1 episode
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Sep 15, 2025 positive
Feb 24, 2026 positive
Kaz Nejatian: Applying zero discount rate to future growth maximizes compounding
“Toby had this very wonderful mentality of applying essentially a zero discount rate. To future growth. It was just like, it's like, cool growth tomorrow or growth today. I'm indifferent. I will never sacrifice growth tomorrow for growth today. And if you do th…”
Feb 24, 2026 neutral
Feb 24, 2026
Feb 24, 2026 neutral
Nejatian: Tested Shopify conference room whiteboard markers to enforce detail standards
“When I was at Shopify, one of the things I used to do is, like walk into conference rooms and test the markers, the whiteboard markers. And like, anytime there was one that wasn't working, I would send a message to our facilities and, Hey, like, because I thou…”
Feb 24, 2026
Nejatian: Speed compresses mistake timelines rather than increasing total errors
“Literally all companies are a collective effort to learn. And if we learn faster, we do more. So all this, all that matters, right? Like now, like if we do things faster, we'll also be wrong more frequently, but we would have been wrong that frequently just ov…”
Feb 24, 2026
Feb 24, 2026 positive
Feb 24, 2026 negative
Feb 24, 2026 bearish
Nejatian says PayPal is struggling today because it prioritized short-term metrics
“And the result of that, by the way, very objectively is PayPal. Like over and over again, that company made all the wrong decisions because they cared more about today than 10 years from now. And guess what? It is now 10 years from now, and the company's in de…”
Feb 24, 2026
Kaz: Working for money lowers pain tolerance compared to believing in a cause
“I find that if you do something for money, the half-life of your ability to put up with pain is very low, right? Everyone, everyone intuitively understands this, right? Like that's just like a very real thing. But if you do something because you believe in the…”
Feb 24, 2026 neutral
Nejatian: Opendoor's career page is designed to repel 99% of applicants
“My job is to actually describe the type of place this is, and lots of people will not want to work here. In fact, less than one in a hundred people will ever want to work here. That's fine. Like we have a very high bar, like our career page tries to do a very …”
Feb 24, 2026
Feb 24, 2026 neutral
Opendoor saw double-digit attrition after Nejatian instituted a seven-day RTO mandate
“On my first day at Opendoor, I said, hey, we're going back to the office. Everyone has seven days. And so a bunch of our colleagues decided not to join us on that journey and left the company because they didn't want to work for an in-person company. And we wi…”
Feb 24, 2026 positive
Nejatian: Product critiques should attack the work, never the creator
“I try very hard
To criticize things, not the people who created those things. I think it's kind of useless to hold your past self guilty. So if you see me in a product review, I frequently say this fucking sucks. I very rarely say you fucking suck. Like the wo…”
Feb 24, 2026 positive
Nejatian says Opendoor's balance sheet was a ticking time bomb upon joining
“When I got here, the company, the company's balance sheet had like a ticking time bomb on it. Like it wasn't obvious how the company was going to survive that ticking time bomb. Now, luckily we've cleaned it up. The balance sheet is incredibly healthy, but for…”
Feb 24, 2026
Nejatian: Waiting does not reduce risk in business decision-making
“I also think that like people misprice risk in their head and they think waiting reduces risk. And in my experience, it just fucking doesn't. Like, it doesn't, right? All it does is take time away from time you could be spending doing other things.”
Feb 24, 2026 bullish
Nejatian proposed to Keith Rabois taking Opendoor private together to fix it
“My wife's plan, literally, genuinely, honestly, was that we would, like, sell everything we owned, leverage ourselves as much as we could to take Opendoor private, so we could fix it. So I called Keith back in, I think, April, and he was, hey man, I'm thinking…”
Feb 24, 2026 bullish
Kaz Nejatian: Palantir and Shopify stand apart from all other SaaS companies
“I think there's like two SaaS companies that stand differently than the rest. It's like Palantir and Shopify. There was up to two. I think it's partially because they do things that are just so different than every other company.”
Feb 24, 2026 neutral
Running a public company is only harder because of negative press scrutiny
“There's one way in which running a public company is harder than running a private company. Like, one real way. And that is, people will write things about you in newspapers. So if you care about what the Wall Street Journal writes about you, running a public …”
Feb 24, 2026 neutral
Feb 24, 2026 neutral
Feb 24, 2026
Nejatian mandated a one-week return-to-office despite Opendoor lacking physical office space
“I showed up on a Monday, my first Monday at work and I said, Hey everyone, by next Monday, we're back in offices. At that point, we didn't have offices. Like we didn't know where people were gonna go. So we had to like the team had to go sign leases, open up o…”
Feb 25, 2026 bullish
Feb 25, 2026 negative