Quotes > "I think people would be surprised by how poorly graduating from Harvard or Stanford predicts performance... often we find that people tend to lose some of that potential raw talent edge by being a bit more entitled and thinking too highly of themselves." - Luca Ferrari [00:00:00]

"If we can build a machine, a system whereby we can operate…

• "When you come to the house, you're no more the CEO. I'm the CEO." - Isa Tan (via Lip-Bu Tan) [00:57:28]

• "If you make 70% of the decision right, you're a damn good CEO." - Moshe Gavrielov (via Lip-Bu Tan) [00:36:01]

• "With all your success at Cadence, you have 150-plus IPOs... Intel is the iconic company. It's so…

• "Trillions of dollars of capital is going in the ground building out AI infrastructure, and a lot of investors rightfully are saying 'Hey, where's the beef? What's the return going to be?' And we think there is a compelling return." - John Gray [00:02:24]

• "Customers tend to be better at explaining problems than explaining solutions. Our observation was the…

"seeing that up close makes it difficult to hold anybody in awe because you see the flaws as well as all of their accomplishments and virtues" - Michael Moritz [00:00:31]

"refugees by definition are a minority... it's how an individual feels rather than how other people might look at you... the need to survive and when you think about surviving you're…

"I studied history a long long time ago and always felt that the way to write about history is through individual stories set against the fabric of the time set against the background... the tapestry is the grand sweep of history but that is brought to life through talking about the details and the particulars" - Michael Moritz [00:01:26]

"It's called…

• "I think the long-term differentiation is not with electrification only, it's actually in the intelligence..." - Brian Gu [00:02:22]

• "Level four capability will just be a matter of time. It's going to happen... in a lot of ubiquitous scenarios that you encounter. So if that capability becomes everywhere... driving is as part of your daily work…

• "Never has anyone paid so much for so little when we made the investment." - Michael Moritz [00:00:40]

• "Founders without wit and intelligence don't create great products. So the two tend to go together." - Michael Moritz [00:03:09]

• "For me generally in everything... it's all about the…

"What's more interesting is how do you dominate when you have to remake yourself over and over again and why do you dominate... I think it's a deep and secure need to remain relevant and prove to yourself that you're not getting old." - Doug Leone [00:00:47]

"I used the trick of thinking what it must be like to go to war and lose an arm or two legs that's…

"He was before anybody else is saying this he was like we are not an NPC company and thus we are going to adopt agents otherwise you know we're totally screwed." - David Senra 00:00:33.

"I have a magic thing called Codex. So do you. So does everybody. That means I should completely be using my computer in a different way." - Sam Altman…

• "If one is not reducing bureaucracy there's no neutral ground... if one is not trying to improve things it is going backwards." - David Baszucki [00:00:00]

• "With this keto thing I think I've developed a theory that in some cases mental health things are very physical. It's is your brain getting enough energy." - David Baszucki…

"Every single day that you are hitting your plan you are destroying equity value like think about that our whole careers we learned you lay out a plan you execute against it like relentlessly and violently... and now you're going in here just like every day you hit that plan you're fucking up you're destroying value" - Eric Vishria 00:00:10

"We used…

• "The algorithm that founded the company turned out to be exactly wrong... We won't have a company if we don't confront the fact that this doesn't work." - Jensen Huang [00:02:42]

• "Technology is changing all the time and so long as you're able to confront the reality, so long as you are able to learn, the technology itself actually doesn't matter." -…

• "The publisher freaked out. They're like, 'We can't publish a business book that looks like this, that looks like a pamphlet.' So we had to pad it with spacing and margins and illustrations to get to it." - DHH [00:01:03]

• "If you have 380 hours together with your 10 agents, you can build a monstrosity like that of something that does a million…

"Our China sales is approximately zero today... until then I would just assume that the sales is zero." - Jensen Huang [00:06:09]

"Great AI open models... it's great for the whole industry... whenever there's more use you'll have to sell a lot more Nvidia computers." - Jensen Huang [00:07:24]

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• "Success today doesn't mean anything... if you're a gladiator, you go to the Coliseum, there's going to be three outcomes: you're going to win, you're going to lose, or you're both going to lose." - Cristiano Amon [00:01:05]

• "When you look at the potential of this technology [AI], it is probably underhyped in the long run." - Cristiano Amon…

• "You need to figure out which defaults are killing the company and change them violently. There must not be change management because you want the change to feel jarring." - Kaz Nejatian (Opendoor CEO) [00:00:00]

• "All success is unique, but all failures rhyme. Good people leave, people lose control of innovation, G&A goes up, and over time you end up…

"I never hang around with people who are talking startups business revenue profits and etc if you hang around with people like that we'll slowly start becoming like that" - Nithin Kamath 00:40:07

"At the core of it it's about being the best possible broker a customer can get" - Nithin Kamath…