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"for $39 a month, you can build a store. If it works, blow it up. If it doesn't work, try something else"
"What I did was I moved Audible to the home screen of my phone. And I just said, well, I'll just listen to an audiobook when I'm usually doing that, you need something frictionless to fill that gap."
"And then the AI tutor, they're like, do you want the AI tutor to generate the lessons you're missing? And they're like, let me see how many. And they're like, I can do that like in a week or so."
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"And then the AI tutor, they're like, do you want the AI tutor to generate the lessons you're missing? And they're like, let me see how many. And they're like, I can do that like in a week or so."
"You could imagine an LLM that sits on top of all that data and generates the perfect next lesson for you. That's where we use the generative AI."
"for $39 a month, you can build a store. If it works, blow it up. If it doesn't work, try something else"
"That's why I use and love Shopify, because nobody does selling better than Shopify. They've built the number one checkout on the planet."
"I'm a monopolist. I believe in Peter Thiel's theory on monopoly. I don't believe that you should have competition. They have to be eliminated."
"I've always been a big saver my whole career and I've always viewed it as not saving money for delayed gratification. I viewed it as purchasing independence for which I get value out of right now today."
"What I did was I moved Audible to the home screen of my phone. And I just said, well, I'll just listen to an audiobook when I'm usually doing that, you need something frictionless to fill that gap."
"If you did an FOI, a freedom of information request to the intelligence department and ask them to give you satellite photographs of the plant from different altitudes, they can give you a pretty good picture."
"I chose to write performance appraisals which said this is what you've done well, this is where I think you didn't do well. This is what you need to work on and if you were to work on these issues and show progress this is where you could go."
"So my philosophy was zoom in before you zoom out. In everything I've done I always went deep into whatever the business was, try to understand things from the ground level then I'd zoom out."
"I don't know that when people think I work hard, it's, you know, I was crunching more Excel models or building more PowerPoint."
"I don't know that when people think I work hard, it's, you know, I was crunching more Excel models or building more PowerPoint."
"If I can go buy a share of Tesla or SpaceX or Stripe or whatever through the app"
"I got a call five years ago when I published my book from Patrick Collinson at Stripe"
"This is like Steve Jobs coming back to Apple taking 400 product lines and making like no, we're doing four computers or simplifying everything."
"If I can go buy a share of Tesla or SpaceX or Stripe or whatever through the app"
"OpenDoor wants to enable like one-click buying of a house. If they were to integrate with Robinhood or somebody else, you could literally enable that on the spot."
"If I can go buy a share of Tesla or SpaceX or Stripe or whatever through the app"
"If you're you don't have the resources maybe as like American Express and in some sense you do now but I mean when you started you didn't."
"In fact, I called FactSet and Bloomberg and see if we can change that"
"In fact, I called FactSet and Bloomberg and see if we can change that"
"Now they're doing the same in Iceland, but they announced the corporation project with, you know, with Anthropic"