Julian Smith

“The part that you cannot absorb on the cheap, and both you and I know this actually, and we do it, so it's important to actually, to say it, is that it cannot create network for you.”

“Leaders from Silicon Valley-ish. Adjacent team, rest of the team can be anywhere.”

“And if you have a lot of at bats, look, your batting average might be shitty, but it actually doesn't matter. You just need to be successful once. And if you're successful once and it's enough of a big hit, you're actually good. You're good forever.”

“Those people that did succeed, they were able to separate themselves from the content. They were able to say, I run a business and my marketing engine is content versus I am the content. I am the engine and I am the business, which is just too much.”

“You don't get a track record remotely and you, and by the way, track record can involve failures, but it has to involve smart failures and also network being in the same places as all these people it's being on podcasts.”

“I'm super convinced that the things I cared about in my twenties, I also cared about when I was 12.”

“Most people feel like they understand what working at a startup is and what it's like to work in a tech company. But when, if they haven't been in one in Silicon Valley, they really don't know what it feels like. And they don't really know how to work that har…”

“You can ask people the question, do you have product markets in their business? And they'll be like, I think so. And you'll be like, you do not have it. Because it is such a crazy clear feeling when you have it that you're like, oh shit, this is it.”

“And so if they if they want me to return to the office, I would legitimately not be a CEO again.”