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17 transcript-backed records
01 / evaluation
“It’s totally different from running an organization. It took me until three years of running CNN that I realized I’m not cut to be an executive in really high-intense situations.”
02 / belief
“Even Barack Obama’s sentence in his memoirs, which is, I think, “Every successful man is either trying to live up to the expectations of his father or live down the sins of his father.”
03 / uncertainty
“I don’t know that you can take that strand out of the fabric and the fabric remains whole.”
04 / belief
“” Whether it’s Starlink in Ukraine or Starship going to Mars or trying to get a global new Tesla, I think he’s got this epic sense of the role he’s going to play in helping humanity on big things, and like the characters in the comic books, it’s sometimes ridiculous, but it also is sometimes true.”
05 / belief
“” Kimball is still in favor of starting a new one and doing it on blockchain-based. In retrospect, I think starting a new media company would’ve been better.”
06 / uncertainty
““If we’re going to build that, do we have enough materials ready to order?” Or, I don’t know, he’ll just ask questions.”
07 / uncertainty
“You call it disarming, which I don’t know that I am, but disarming basically means you’re taking down their shields also.”
08 / belief
“I think that he has an algorithm that we mentioned earlier that begins with question every requirement, but it’s up to is delete, delete, delete, delete every part there.”
09 / belief
“There are people like Benjamin Franklin, like the, I’ll say Charlie Rose, even though he’s in disfavor who are interested in huge number of subjects, and I think that helps as well to be interested in basketball and opera and physics and metaphysics.”
10 / belief
“Every question you’ve asked me is because I think you actually want to know the answer, and you’ve done your homework to be open and not to have an agenda.”
11 / preference
“Lesson one, I learned people want to talk if you’re willing to just listen, and whether it be Henry Kissinger, you just push the button and say Kissinger, and people tell you the stories all the way through Elon Musk, everybody talked, everybody in his family, everybody he fired, everybody.”
12 / evaluation
“I think the fierce urgency that drives him is important, and it’s sometimes genned up, like I say, the fierce urgency of getting to Mars.”
13 / evaluation
“There are a lot of successful people who are much kinder, but it’s sometimes necessary to be much more brutal and honest, brutally honest, I would say, than people like who win Boss of the Year trophies.”
14 / evaluation
“The first was just firing people because they looked at the coding, and they had a team of people from Tesla’s autopilot team grading the codes of all that was written in the past year or so.”
15 / evaluation
“He did something and made the Firing Squad, I call it, or the Musketeers I think is my nickname for them, which is the young cousins and two or three other people, he made them look at the Slack messages everybody at Twitter had posted, and they went through hundreds of Slack messages.”
16 / evaluation
“It’s not hardcore, it’s not intense. And so for better and for worse, I think he’s taking acts into the hardcore realm with people who post hardcore things with people with hardcore views.”
17 / evaluation
“Then when he takes over, it’s kind of a wild scene, him trying to decide in three different rounds how to get the staff down to 15% of what it was him deciding on Christmas Eve after he’d been at a meeting where they told him, we can’t get rid of that Sacramento server farm because it’s needed for redundancy.”