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01 / evaluation
“Well, Patrick Collison probably didn’t seem to most people to be the big star, and you can prove this, because if he had, they would have invested in early Stripe rounds, and they didn’t.”
02 / evaluation
“All you need to do is have this hard core of crazy left-wing supporters who will absolutely support you, no matter what, and turn out to vote. Everybody else is like, “Oh, local election doesn’t matter.”
03 / evaluation
“This sounds very arrogant, but I realized this with Y Combinator. I realized that Y Combinator had become famous long after it had become famous.”
04 / evaluation
“” Needless to say, that’s one of those things that sounds too good to be true, and it is, because if you go and look in philosophy classes .”
05 / evaluation
“No start-up is thinking, “Well, I better not do that because Microsoft might enter that and destroy me.”
06 / evaluation
“There was a guy on Twitter — I think his name was Rob Miles — who said that trying to make safe AI will be like trying to make a secure operating system. That is absolutely true, and therefore frightening, because the way you make a secure operating system is not by sitting down and thinking at a table with a piece of paper about the principles for making a secure operating system.”
07 / evaluation
“It sounds weird, but if you look at where the money’s spent at auction, it’s almost all fashionable contemporary crap because if you think about how prices in very high-end art are set, they’re auction prices.”
08 / evaluation
“Because I was studying Florentine history, all the buildings are right around you, and I found myself thinking, “Damn, Florence was New York City [laughs] in 1450.”