Jordi Hays
24 statements across 16 episodes · 5 bullish · 11 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Oct 14, 2024 by Jordi Hays · said 20 times in 15 episodes since 2025 · across every show →
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2026 18 mentions in 13 episodes 1 per episode
- 🚀 SpaceX IPO Liftoff | Diet TBPN
- Thinking Machines’ First AI Model, California Loses $3.2B to Texas, TSMC Adds $100B | Diet TBPN
- IPO Giga Boom, World’s Fairs of the Past | Diet TBPN
- FULL BREAKDOWN: Apple’s 7 New Devices
- Meta Settles Addiction Suits, Tim Cook Signs Off After 15 Years, OpenAI’s Jalapeño Chip | Diet TBPN
- Kushner & Iger’s $12.5B Lakers Deal, Grok 4.6 Launches, Anthropic’s Watermarking Move | Diet TBPN
- Bezos' Prometheus Raises $12B, America Inc. Moves to Texas, Trucking Rebounds | Diet TBPN
- Thoma Bravo Loses Medallia, OpenAI Drops ChatGPT 5.5, Bob Iger Returns | Diet TBPN
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2025 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
Everything said about Jordi Hays, oldest first
Oct 14, 2024 bearish
Dec 11, 2024 negative
Hays: Lost over $100,000 in legal fees on failed UK acquisition
“I had spent over a 100,000 dollars on legal bills that would have been prorated among me and the other investors for the deal. But because we didn't close, I was stuck with the bill. So I had to spend a 100,000 dollars for a deal that just didn't happen.”
Dec 11, 2024 negative
Dec 11, 2024
Hays: Founders should only pivot when a thesis is critically wrong, not because it gets hard
“Companies are really hard when things get hard. Don't just pivot. You pivot because you've realized that some element of your thesis was critically wrong and you need to do something else, but sometimes you just need to not pivot and just force You know, force…”
Dec 11, 2024 positive
Hays: Advertisers should allocate 5% of their budget without expecting direct ROI
“If you're an advertiser, take five percent of your budget and spend it with spend it with groups that, you know, maybe don't have a direct ROI, but can give back to the world and entertain you and your team in some way.”
Dec 11, 2024 negative
Dec 14, 2024
Hays: Dinners should be worthwhile even if paying for the whole table
“You want to be going to dinners where you would happily pay for everybody, and still feel like it was a good Just exchange, right? Because you're going for the company. It's not about the food. It's not about how much you ate. It's not about how much you drank…”
Dec 19, 2024 negative
Dec 19, 2024 negative
Tim Ferriss promoting psychedelics to his massive audience was irresponsible and degenerate
“When I was in college, Tim Ferriss was directly or indirectly massively promoting psychedelic, like basically as like a lifestyle to the, one of the biggest podcasts in the world. Just telling everybody, like, how great psychedelics are, and I think that that'…”
Jan 16, 2025 positive
Hays: Technology Brothers are launching a 'PMF or Die' startup accelerator
“We're working on a new show called PMF or die. We will lock a small founding team in a studio, AKA the cage with 25 K in funding and only enough food, caffeine, and nicotine to last for 90 days. The team will only be released if, when they achieve a million in…”
Jan 16, 2025 negative
Jan 25, 2025 positive
Jan 25, 2025 bearish
Hays: One-Person AI Rollup Lacks Edge Over Private Equity
“I would find it hard pressed to invest in the founder, unless it was like a personal relationship, because I don't know that you're going to have any edge over the many other Private equity firms that will all presumably follow the same strategy, right?”
Apr 9, 2025 neutral
Jordi Hays: Likability may become the primary reason humans retain jobs
“Like it's very possible that likability becomes a core reason why somebody has a job because somebody is running a business and they go I really like David. I like being around him. I want him here, even though, you know, we could get an agent to do this. Like…”
Apr 26, 2025 negative
Hays: Early Virality Risks Pigeonholing Startups Before They Pivot
“The challenge with going super viral early, and I had this with party round is that people get a fixed idea A lot of people get a very fixed idea of what your business does. And then you run into this like product marketing challenge, which, you know, people a…”
Jun 21, 2025 neutral
Hays: Bootstrapped startups struggle for hype without venture investors pushing them
“It's so incredibly hard to have any hype around your business if you're bootstrapped because you're not having your investors aren't hitting the timeline for you on a daily basis. And also you have, if you're not trying to raise capital, you have less need to …”
Nov 13, 2025 neutral
Jan 9, 2026 neutral
Feb 12, 2026 positive
Hays: PartyRound launched a 400-VC NFT viral stunt in 2021
“Dylan and I, you know, we did one back in the day with PartyRound called Helpful This was, I think, like May or June of 2021. So it was before the crazy NFT boom had really started, but CryptoPunks were popular and we made a collection of like 400 NFTs of vari…”
Feb 24, 2026 bearish
Feb 24, 2026 neutral
May 5, 2026 positive
Jordi Hays: eBay remains remarkably durable against vertical competitors
“EBay is an incredible business. It's been remarkably durable. They've faced an onslaught of competition for every single category from sneakers to watches to art to name any cars, right? Any category there is like a vertical competitor to eBay. And yet the bus…”
Jul 7, 2026