tech industry

“And yeah, the tech industry hadn't learned to like circle the wagons at all. And so there was just, it was just complete, complete scapegoating and then just ostracization. And you just became an apostate very quickly for doing anything like this.”

“And the thing about tech that's interesting is, is it doesn't matter, like, a lot of the most successful people in tech were born far from the golden land of California, and totally made the effort to move here. And so, it doesn't, you know, being born here, m…”

“I think we've actually gotten much better in the last couple of years at separating storytelling from just charlatan bullshit. And like, there was a period when we weren't like, we were not very good at that. Probably, you know, late, late twenties, early twen…”

“If SVB would not have been bailed out by the government in, in, in, You know, like, it wasn't just, like, the government's obligations. They were bailing out well beyond FDIC limits. If they wouldn't have done that, it probably would have wiped out half the te…”

“I think that the Travis Kalanick mindset has been missing totally when he kind of left. There was, there's been a Travis sized hole in the industry, in the culture.”