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01 / evaluation
“Many of those fail, but occasionally, those work, and it creates the microphones that we’re using, the building that we’re in, and the city and world that we live in.”
02 / evaluation
“I think that affords us all modalities because I really think there are very few people that don’t want to improve at least themselves, if not want to compete against others.”
03 / evaluation
“The guarantee Pioneer gives you is that if you’re in the top decile, we will review your application, but you could be 25th or 32nd — it doesn’t matter, we still review your application.”
04 / evaluation
“I think he was the 10th or 11th engineer Google hired, and he’s basically responsible for the fact that Google Search works.”
05 / evaluation
“Like this very conversation we’re having — you can tell if people are having fun with each other’s questions and whatnot, or whether it’s monotonous. And someone who locks up and freezes when you ask them if maybe Diet Coke is correlated to productivity — which is a bit of a silly question at the end of the day — just the fact that they’re not having fun with it, I think, is something to look for.”
06 / evaluation
“I think a lot about this whole idea of gamification. It sounds childish and silly, but if we take that as a given, that there are these pieces of software that people really yearn to use .”
07 / evaluation
“I think that works because you can learn a lot from what someone says — they’re not likely to make up a story — but it’s also fun, and it is a common thing many people share, even in this era of HBO and Netflix.”
08 / evaluation
“I definitely think for the role of founder — the one I specialize in — looking for someone to start a business that has a chance of becoming the next Thermo Fisher or the next Facebook or the next Apple, yes, I think intellect is very much overpriced or overvalued.”