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Hamilton Helmer

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The Road to Reality

“One book that is extremely wonky, and I can only take it in very small doses, but is magnificent, is one called The Road to Reality by Roger Penrose, who's this brilliant mathematician. And it will be very daunting for anybody unless you're a deep math person, but his brilliance in erudition just shines through in this thing. And it's an amazing book. I would say there's another book, boy, I wish I could remember the name. Maybe you can get the name of the author called Gene by this geneticist. And I think he's a Harvard Medical School professor that's about the history of genetics and he is an absolutely luminous writer. I mean, it puts me to shame. I'm embarrassed when I read it because I think how pedestrian my writing is and incredibly knowledgeable about the history of genetics and I think that's such an important topic. So those are two that I would recommend highly, fairly wonky, but I like them both.”

Lenny's Podcast · 5 May 2024

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Gene

“One book that is extremely wonky, and I can only take it in very small doses, but is magnificent, is one called The Road to Reality by Roger Penrose, who's this brilliant mathematician. And it will be very daunting for anybody unless you're a deep math person, but his brilliance in erudition just shines through in this thing. And it's an amazing book. I would say there's another book, boy, I wish I could remember the name. Maybe you can get the name of the author called Gene by this geneticist. And I think he's a Harvard Medical School professor that's about the history of genetics and he is an absolutely luminous writer. I mean, it puts me to shame. I'm embarrassed when I read it because I think how pedestrian my writing is and incredibly knowledgeable about the history of genetics and I think that's such an important topic. So those are two that I would recommend highly, fairly wonky, but I like them both.”

Lenny's Podcast · 5 May 2024

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02 / evaluation

He got a lot of people of the Harvard Business School faculty really mad at him because that's what their careers were about and it sounded like he was dissing them. But the point he was making was when you get to this end state, if you already have power that things that drive operational excellence can be mimicked because you can hire a consulting firm who has best practices, knowledges that come in and get you up to snuff.

“He got a lot of people of the Harvard Business School faculty really mad at him because that's what their careers were about and it sounded like he was dissing them. But the point he was making was when you get to this end state, if you already have power that things that drive operational excellence can be mimicked because you can hire a consulting firm who has best practices, knowledges that come in and get you up to snuff.”
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Hamilton Helmer
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Lenny's Podcast

03 / evaluation

Porsche was the one that just kept being right on that performance envelope because they were able to do all these investments, and it's a phenomenal business model.

“Porsche was the one that just kept being right on that performance envelope because they were able to do all these investments, and it's a phenomenal business model.”
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Hamilton Helmer
Publisher
Acquired

04 / evaluation

It's especially evident at Apple, but it's really true everywhere for all entrepreneurs. That's why Chenyi and I have to be fairly modest about what we're doing because what we're really trying to do is to provide pattern recognition for those people, but it doesn't substitute for them.

“It's especially evident at Apple, but it's really true everywhere for all entrepreneurs. That's why Chenyi and I have to be fairly modest about what we're doing because what we're really trying to do is to provide pattern recognition for those people, but it doesn't substitute for them.”
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Hamilton Helmer
Publisher
Acquired

06 / evaluation

The counter positioning one is typically the type of power that you would have against incumbents, but it doesn't work against wannabes because they don't have the same problems.

“The counter positioning one is typically the type of power that you would have against incumbents, but it doesn't work against wannabes because they don't have the same problems.”
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Hamilton Helmer
Publisher
Acquired

07 / evaluation

I'll tell you something, Ben and David, that has occurred to Chenyi and myself over the last year which is a little bit different maybe than what's said in the book, which is that I used to think that it was sequential.

“I'll tell you something, Ben and David, that has occurred to Chenyi and myself over the last year which is a little bit different maybe than what's said in the book, which is that I used to think that it was sequential.”
Speaker
Hamilton Helmer
Publisher
Acquired

11 / evaluation

I'd say an exception to that is that if you have a company like that and you see that they're just gaining an enormous relative market share, there might be some other company that's earlier. But there's something about their business model that just doesn't work as well.

“I'd say an exception to that is that if you have a company like that and you see that they're just gaining an enormous relative market share, there might be some other company that's earlier. But there's something about their business model that just doesn't work as well.”
Speaker
Hamilton Helmer
Publisher
Acquired

13 / evaluation

What that says is, there's this moment, but then the problem is, from a strategist point of view is that all the information is changing so radically that the person or the group that has to process that is the founder and his team.

“What that says is, there's this moment, but then the problem is, from a strategist point of view is that all the information is changing so radically that the person or the group that has to process that is the founder and his team.”
Speaker
Hamilton Helmer
Publisher
Acquired
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