Silicon Valley

“Wall Street was definitely this idea that you could go to Wall Street and finance in New York and in your twenties, make it to the top. And that's at 100% true in Silicon Valley in tech, even today. But I don't think it's been true in Manhattan finance for dec…”

“A huge portion of the alpha that was generated in Silicon Valley from the year 2000 onward was literally just saying, yeah, it doesn't matter if you're a 19 year old kid, we can, we trust you with a million dollars to go build something.”

“He's been living this very aesthetic life just reading and consuming content, rabbit holing, you know, one of the best online writers, one of the, one of like the most impactful intellectuals in Silicon Valley.”

“This is a good example of, like, where Silicon Valley could go down, like, kind of a dark path where VCs are like, yeah, just meet me in the sweaty spa. Like, if you say, like, meet me at the sweaty spa, there's, like, a big aversion to that, but for some reas…”

“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…”

“There's huge, huge, huge downsides to those substances, and there's too much in Silicon Valley, like, at least when I was in college, Tim Ferriss would be promoting, like, various psychedelics on his show to the super wide audience, and these are really, reall…”

“You're always in a bubble. You're either in a crash or a bubble. There's no normal time.”

“Even 10 years ago, you just wouldn't have seen a high-profile GP Be involved with religion.”

“Saturday night felt like the top, right? Like the vibes were incredible. Everybody was just on top of the world. Great night clear, you know, potentially a top signal.”

“No VC can write you off as a founder because you're a Christian, because there are now enough people who are serious that you won't be, you can wear it on your sleeve, whereas before people used to hide it, clearly.”

“Based Baron posted yesterday screenshots of all the VCs that were VCs for Kamala as a website, the website since been scrubbed, but there were probably a hundred names up there from many of the biggest firms in the Valley, people that were backing it.”

“He invited seals out to California for an event where Silicon Valley types get together and share big ideas. This is like the perfect thing to send this guy to. Sales gave a short presentation on the scrolls to the group, but no one bit.”

“There's basically one product in Silicon Valley and it's like primary growth capital. And you know, once these markets become bigger and more liquid, more efficient, there needs to be a different kind of different just as there is in wall street or like on the…”

“And they've taken, like, the route of Big Head in Silicon Valley, the HBO show, where they're just kind of, like, resting, investing, just kind of chilling out, making lifestyle decisions while writing angel checks. And that feels like a real moral failure of …”

“So I was running the product for the developer platform at Facebook, which was like AI bots, messenger bots. It's like the hottest thing in Silicon Valley for like four months before everyone realized it didn't work because we were seven years away from LLMs a…”

“And then fast forward two years, we scaled from one to a hundred million in revenue, and so we're only 21 and running this really exciting company that's working with most of the most prominent companies in Silicon Valley.”

“The standard YC playbook, for example, is like you get three co-founders, you split it equally, then immediately YC takes 10%, then it's like back to back to back 20% rounds, you're diluted down to a few percent.”

“I think that nation state espionage in Silicon Valley has been much Much bigger scale than people have understood for at least the last decade, and probably beyond that.”

“So I think if you're starting a SaaS business today, you want to go against the Silicon Valley dogma of focus. You want to build a Chinese style company, which is I think what Rippling is doing.”

“By and large, people are, like, good and ethical in the Valley. Like, it's a pay it forward place. It's a repeat game. I think there's a reason why a lot of the, you know, bad behavior comes from people who aren't from Silicon Valley.”

“Silicon Valley has a tendency to be sort of extremely intellectually shallow. This is both a strength and a weakness of the Valley, to be clear.”

“If you look at, like, you know, donations, Silicon Valley, qua Silicon Valley was still, like, 85%, you know, Democrat, you know, by, on a dollar's basis.”

“Having said that, I think there's way too much of a emphasis on you have to drop out and you're not good enough if you don't drop out. Among Silicon Valley, obviously not everywhere, but in the tech industry, I think that can be a little unhealthy.”

“This was of course, based on the list, which apparently has been going around Silicon Valley. Mark Zuckerberg has been, you know, using this to recruit top AI researchers.”

“I think there, you know, just in general, there is this very naive view of the world that doesn't understand why militaries are important and necessary, and I think Silicon Valley got itself in a lot of trouble by giving in to this naive mindset that we have n…”

“I think the highest turnover job of any executive at Silicon Valley might be the CMO. I don't know for sure, but like, you know, you don't see a lot of turnover CFOs. You don't see a lot of turnover CTOs”