David Senra

"In early SpaceX, I told the team everything we did was a function of our burn rate. We were burning through $100,000 per day."

"So there's a story in the Ashlee Vance book where they're like, 'I don't get Elon.'"

"I think AI is probably the best thing that's ever happened to Snapchat, which is great."

"I spent a lot of time with the Spotify team, Daniel, Gustaf, Alex, the top three people there and they just have this like soul in the game and they're really trying to build an app. Their whole thing is just like when you're done using Spotify, do you feel good?"

"They told me they're the second most paid subscribers in the world, I think, behind Netflix."

"All of the magic or the secret sauce if you will are in things that you cannot see. These things are the things that make DoorDash special and make DoorDash an end-to-end experience that's very difficult to replicate."

"One of my all-time favorite quotes is from the book Zero to One. It says the single most powerful pattern I have noticed is that successful people find value in unexpected places."

"it's like a Lollapalooza from Charlie Munger right? It is like this is not a 10% on a 10% on a 10%."

"He's doing it through Shopify. I'm obviously doing it through reading all these biographies."

"Did you ever read Jimmy Soni's biography of Claude Shannon? I think it's called A Mind at Play."

"You sell Beats to Apple. Well, because company like Apple pays you a lot of money."

"Mark Leonard of Constellation Software did this podcast. He talked about one of his most fulfilling jobs he ever had was not starting and compounding 50 million to 80 billion or whatever he's done with pure software."

"He makes some of the most technologically advanced films that have ever been created. And yet he doesn't have a cell phone."

"John Mackey. I don't know if it was in the episode. I can't remember. But this guy keeps trying to get me to do psychedelics."

"I read his book called The Tao of Capital. He has an entire chapter in that book on conifer trees and he draws parallels between like a great business that could survive using the insights he derived from studying these trees."

"He wrote this autobiography. It was very fascinating because he writes it, 90% of the pages are building Trader Joe's. He clearly loves it. But then the last paragraph is like he regrets selling."

"When you read Poor Charlie's Almanack, his thing is that you should master there's only a handful of big ideas in all these different disciplines."

"You sell Beats to Apple. What'd that feel like? It felt great."

"I blame Apple. I blame Google. I blame Yahoo. I blame Microsoft for making shit email products that they just don't care about."

"I blame Apple. I blame Google. I blame Yahoo. I blame Microsoft for making shit email products that they just don't care about."