The Knowledge Project Podcast

"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."

"for $39 a month, you can build a store. If it works, blow it up. If it doesn't work, try something else"

"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."

"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"

"So now you have, you know, Spotify, CLA, all these things."

"The politicians decided when they found oil back in 69, listen, we should put this into a fund. First deposit was, you know, relatively small and now it's grown a lot, right?"

"These very smart, very intelligent high schoolers, somebody will raise their hand and ask some version of the question, 'What penny stock should I buy to double my money tomorrow?'"

"10% of people do not need financial advice. They just get it intuitively. They came out of the womb understanding compound interest."

"I got a call five years ago when I published my book from Patrick Collinson at Stripe"

"The only like true passive income would be like you own treasury bonds and the interest, you actually didn't have to do anything for that."

"So one of the core lessons of Atomic Habits is that every action you take is like a vote for the type of person you wish to become."

"The San Antonio Spurs have a quote hanging in their locker room where it says, you know, they've won five NBA championships."

"At Zappos, we had a situation where the website's not fast enough"

"ChatGPT becoming one of the most popular consumer services in history faster than any service in history"

"I have the original screen print that Ben Francis used to create Gym Shark. Gym Shark is this homegrown success story on Shopify"

"I wrote this in The Psychology of Money. If you have to sum up doing well financially in one word, I think it's survival."

"part of the reason why I like starting these small projects like Big Shot or Firebelly is I want the kids to see that"

"Customer service which is where my company Sierra works is being transformed"