Conversations with Tyler / episode intelligence
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21 published records
01 / belief
“I think that’d make the end of the games remarkably faster, make the whole game faster and more exciting.”
02 / belief
“I think a lot of MBAs get a bad rap, deservedly so, for thinking they know everything when they’ve just read a few case studies.”
03 / belief
“I think there’s going to be a mind shift, where we need to be willing to go into those areas with massive regulatory overhead, with massive red tape, because that’s the real growth opportunity.”
04 / belief
“Even people in Silicon Valley, I think, underestimate at times just what it really means to be able to access billions of people.”
05 / disagreement
“Sometimes it’s, oh, I disagree with you and it’s an opinion sort of thing, which is fine.”
06 / uncertainty
“I don’t know. I’m not that familiar with it, to be honest. People ask me why I don’t cover Chinese companies more.”
07 / belief
“I think there’s a bigger challenge, in general, for a company like Facebook where, if you think about public relations, it’s very tied up into the media and that sort of area, where there’s a certain tension already in that sort of relationship, particularly when it comes to the health of their underlying businesses.”
08 / belief
“I think that’s actually been more the last couple years, they’ve actually fleshed it out to being more accessible.”
09 / belief
“I think people will have them in their homes, and they’ll become more popular because it’s convenient.”
10 / belief
“I think the attributing causation to these companies when, if you think about how they work and how they have power in the market, it is by giving people what they want, which it follows — people want to be polarized, they’re going to get polarized things.”
11 / belief
“The Milwaukee Bucks last year won, I believe, 44 games, and in the NBA, they were in the bottom third for the number of three-pointers attempted.”
12 / evaluation
“Blockchain is inherently interesting because the thing about the internet is its reduction in — basically driving distribution cost to zero.”
13 / evaluation
“Google in particular is notorious for this, for launching products all the time that never succeed. But it doesn’t matter because they have that core product with the huge network effects that lets them do that end fail.”
14 / prediction
“I think there’s still tremendous amounts of transformation that is going to happen from here on out, particularly things like the cloud and ever-present computing.”
15 / recommendation
“I think I mentioned that: that venture capitalists need to change their mindset, generally, to be willing to go into spaces where upfront capital investment is not sufficient — there needs to be sufficient ongoing expenditure on a marginal basis for a product — and be willing to accept that.”
16 / prediction
“New teachers would come, and you could tell right away which ones would not make it because that sort of stuff would just drive them crazy, and they’d be gone in a month or two.”
17 / evaluation
“They’re very different than the dominant companies of old that were like monopolies based on controlling distribution. They had no need to service their customers well because their customers couldn’t go nowhere else.”
18 / evaluation
“And why? Because Facebook is the digitization of your friends and family. Where I’m from, friends and family is very central in a way that in Silicon Valley — where a lot of people are running away from their friends and family to pursue this dream or to get away — is less cognizant of.”
19 / evaluation
“I just mentioned the context of Facebook. They’re so convinced that they are a force for good and changing the world that they can’t even fathom that they’re not, which leaves them unprepared to answer very legitimate questions about their effects on the world because they don’t have the — I don’t know if empathy’s the right word — but they don’t have the empathy for the possibility that they might not be, which doesn’t allow them to even create the right response.”
20 / preference
“The reason I like that book and go back to it, even though I think he’s taken the concept a little too far, and one of the first articles I got traction on was saying why he got Apple so wrong, but what I like about that book specifically is the fundamental premise is managers can do the “right thing” and fail.”
21 / evaluation
“I think Apple struggled originally because they had the same supposition that this is inherently interesting, so let’s build it.”