Silicon Valley

“Hollywood figured out something that Silicon Valley did not, which is you get really, really talented people from overseas and how do you help them have work authorization and be able to stick, stick around in the country for long enough. And so the O is super…”

“I think there's a distinct Way in which New York handles, like, celebrity and fame that is, like, a bit more blase and, like, a bit more, like, not a big deal, like, cool, you're still a human. And I think probably Silicon Valley could borrow a little bit of t…”

“I don't think we've ever seen pre-IPO so many leaders leave the best, like, crown jewel company in Silicon Valley. It's common, like, you IPO, everyone gets rich and they leave. Okay, that's normal. But before IPO, right in its, like, heyday, you don't see the…”

“I think that nowadays there is a culture of celebrating, you know, young founders, young entrepreneurs And so I wouldn't say that you actually have that much going against you. In fact, I would almost say a little bit of the opposite, that, like, if you are so…”

“It was really a combination of two things. One was people from the industry, aerospace industry, who knew All the tricks, knew the science, knew the engineering but had a way of doing things that was more the incumbent way. And that was combined probably in a …”

“Through things like re-industrialization, that conference, and just all of the signaling that DC cares about this, that Silicon Valley cares about this, we're making it sexy again to some fourteen-year-old, some eighteen-year-old who says, I want to go and bui…”

“Like he used to come to Silicon Valley and nobody would meet with him and he could never raise money for everything. And then now I see him walk into these rooms and everyone's like wants to talk to Brian, but they also, they're all trying to learn how to live…”

“It seems like all the really good, the biggest things I've ever covered, they all take 10 to 12 years. I think Silicon Valley, sometimes you have this overnight sensation kind of thing where you see Steve Jobs or Mark Zuckerberg turn up when they're 26 and the…”

“Thinking back to when we started Anvil in 2017 as kind of the pariah of Silicon Valley. It was like not something people were doing, it was incredibly unpopular, and now all of a sudden there's like almost nothing as popular. Maybe AI slop enterprise SaaS comp…”

“The gap between like what the Valley thinks about tech and AI and focuses on and what the world cares about, it's pretty vast. And I think that cap is like not even close to being filled. So when it comes to things like insurance, we talk about what the profes…”

“You cannot get that density of talent anywhere else in the world. Definitely not in Silicon Valley, which spans over you know, significantly bigger geographical area.”

“I think a weird thing that happened with us is the combination of having really good numbers on the board plus not spending time with non-internal investors allowed for other people in the ecosystem to try to give reason to justify Our growth, right? Like, oh,…”

“If you think about it, it's kind of like poker or golf. It's one of those things, if you get invited to it here, you should go, because it's a great way to take down barriers and get to know somebody and laugh and have a good time without, like, all the small …”

“We went from a, let's call it a A software-centric world to a compute-centric world.”