Jordy Hays

“And so I think that there will undoubtedly be a time in the future where a major stable coin like blows up.”

“We, at Capital, we were rolling out a Stablecoin custody product when we were informed by our bank partner that we were gonna have to jettison a lot of our Digital asset oriented customers. And so our entire product strategy like fell apart because we couldn't…”

“I would say that overall Keith's advice, I'm like very bullish on any founder that takes like 90% of Keith's advice to heart and follows it. I think it's a really good framework”

“I took off 36 hours when my son was born. Not necessarily proud of that. He was born Saturday, like You know, in the early, early hours of the morning. Four a.m. On Monday. I legitimately had a 12, 12 hour meeting of back-to-backs on Monday.”

“I talked with Zach within six months of him incorporating Bridge, didn't invest. I met Shane from Polymarket, like we would DM back in like, 20, 21, and I didn't go back up the Brinks truck.”

“Find the balance of it, right? So, but, so bet on the kid, bet on the dropout, but go get them somebody from Lockheed Martin to be their chaperone.”

“Growing up in Northern California in Sonoma County, You can still buy like a hundred acres for like 600,000 dollars.”

“And so, yeah, but I think, I don't know, there's a lot of alpha and just going and being in a place where you're The younger person with energy that's still in, in the trenches, basically, because all those other people just want to back what you do, basically…”

“It feels like a lot of sales is all going to go back to relationships. And so the truly gifted salesperson that's just good at making people like them and wanting to do business with them is actually going to excel, even in a world where as a small company, yo…”

“The really talented marketers of today going forward are going to be looking more like engineers where historically the really sophisticated marketing organizations like ramp as an example, they have like a lot of engineering involvement in the marketing activ…”

“We know some people with full-time Bible instructors, some billionaires with full-time Bible instructors”

“Tech guys whose only tools has been a phone and a laptop are now discovering that there's the democratization of super high quality power tools that has been happening like in the background and there's like entire religions oriented around the different brand…”

“Buying a company with less than half a million of cash flow is buying a job.”

“There's probably already fifty million dollars of ARR worth of these sort of, like, chat GPT therapy products that are just out there printing.”

“Which I've across like 50 angel bets. I've done that before where I'm like, I see some issues with this business, but I like the founder, so I'll do it. Or the team is not, is maybe like a seven out of 10, but like the products at 10 out of 10, let's do it any…”

“And boys' nights are a good way to counter burnout, right? Because burnout's usually a symptom of something not working in your business, but if you hang out with your boys, they can help give you that clarity, gas you up, give you that extra conviction to kee…”

“So parents will spend a lot of money for something like this. In general, parents will pay for anything educational pretty quickly for their kids.”

“People like that have never been more in demand. Like, they turn down, like, probably 80% of the work that comes into them, and so you see this bifurcation of super talented creatives getting, you know, even like, when Siki worked with an agency I forget the n…”

“If you are a beaner or a centi and you're obsessed with Legos, it's, you know, they're eccentric, and if you're if you're effectively, if you're broke or lower income, you're just weird, right? So the critique here, the broader issue is the net worth, not, not…”

“Honestly, posting a link is a real way to test your bangers. Cause like if you can post a link, if you can break through the wall, you know, it's good.”

“I think if you're an ideas guy CEO, this can be, there's a real trap where you're trying to, like, think of the next new exciting novel thing when really you just need to do the boring thing over and over and over for years.”

“My best pre-seed investment ever. Is a company where when I met the CEO, you know, within literally probably three minutes of talking, I knew I wanted to invest. I knew the company would work and sort of get to the level of traction that it has.”

“There's just huge alpha and wearing, simply wearing a suit, right? If you're in technology, take off the Allbirds, throw on some loafers. Get a tailored suit. Wear it to work. I guarantee you'll stand out.”

“It is the most negative signal when you talk to a founder, and they're, like, cagey about their idea, or they're like, oh, like, I mean, I still, like, maybe three times a year will take a meeting with a company, and they try to get me to sign an NDA, and I'm …”

“I think if you're, if you know, aren't married or don't have kids yet, like, you need to be taking on, like, at least five times as much risk as you are right now because the more that other people are dependent on you in many ways, the less risk you can take …”

“Now, right now, it's cringe, but it will soon be contrarian and cool to Rockin' Ape.”

“If a post is not hitting, do not delete it. Just post the next thing.”

“It's either there's no urgency or you haven't shown them that there's real urgency or urgency necessary, or they don't care.”

“If you're running a consumer brand and you want to be private, great. Your consumer brand should be getting the most amount of attention that you basically possibly can get.”

“When this was all happening was when Andreessen and other firms realized they needed to spend way more time in Washington because they were They were like, there's actually bigger games being played here that are not just in our world.”

“My favorite investors are generalists. They look For opportunity and talent. Yep. And they bet big when they find those two things in the same place.”

“And this company plunge bootstrap to literally nine figure run rate in like two years. Just selling cold plunges.”

“I do not use Airbnb under any circumstances anymore.”

“There's this common trend in Silicon Valley where somebody hits 35, and they're kind of maybe post-economic, and they just kind of start floundering around, and it's like, no, that's when you should go do your life's work. 40, do it at 45, 50, whatever, it doe…”

“I expect like everybody will have a drone, right? That like goes and picks up like, oh, I want this drink from the grocery store. Like go grab it for me. Everybody has like their little leaf picker. Everybody has like a humanoid robot around the house, or mayb…”

“So I give this advice all the time to people that are like, I want to be a founder. And it's like, well, you don't need to have started a company before, obviously to be a founder, anybody can just become a founder, but a lot of people would be better off goin…”

“We've dealt with our own our editors trying to unionize over and over but we are always able to win.”

“I'm, we're, I'm working with a portfolio company that I won't name yet, but we're going to be able to go. We're, they're going to give it a gun. And we're going to be able to go make some content.”

“I believe it is your duty to maximum, to maximally utilize that, that, that, that advantage relationship, whatever.”

“All the best journalism and journalists in the world are growing independent, and it's a death sentence for traditional media.”

“I think Doge is an incredible opportunity if you don't have your thing yet. Right. Or if you're working a job that you just don't care about that much, which I doubt any of the brothers do because they are corporate athletes and they'll find a way to care abou…”

“When you think like Figma has been like shipping features every single day for a decade now. And even if you knew exactly which features mattered and how they all work together it would be very difficult to create a one-to-one clone.”

“I would say I have a really strong conviction that in the next few years, you'll be able to one shot a design tool.”

“Having a product, not just an API business gives you leverage because at some point the models are smart enough where you don't need to train them. You don't need to train a model that is four percent better because people are still coming to your application …”

“The startup, which has not raised outside funding also has no official valuation, but many highly valued tech companies can only dream of hitting one billion in revenue with so few workers. Medvia is also profitable.”

“And one thing that feels obvious around this if these policies were to be rolled out is that you would effectively create an incentive for millions of Individuals or groups globally to be in secret, like trying to find entirely new breakthroughs that are.”