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27 published records
“So the number one one is called The Upside of Stress by Kelly McGonigal, Professor at Stanford. And basically it argues in an incredibly compelling way that if you want to be happy, healthy, or wealthy, you need more stress in your life, not less. So it's magic. The evidence she marshals is effectively uncritiquable at the outcome level, at the biochemical level. It is transformative to people to read this book, so I highly recommend it.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“I hate talking to customers. I refuse to allow colleagues of mine to talk to customers.”
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“I think there's going to be a curated experience with a premium of provenance that you know is human-created.”
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“Peter was smart enough to quit after five months and four days, I think. David never practiced so maybe even smarter than both of us.”
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“You would think though, I don't know if it was Hemmingway of just like, "If I had more time, I would've made it shorter.”
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“There are technology-driven investors. I would say Mark Andreessen's probably someone like that.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“I don't know if there's a new product that I've been fanatically addicted to recently.”
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“Along these lines, actually, you have this, I don't know if you call it a hot take that AI content is going to surpass human content and that's just the future.”
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“I think that's the ultimate unicorn is an engineer that is also very business-minded.”
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“If they were exceptional, I think that's right. But I think a lot of the best engineers I've worked with have commercial instincts like Max Levchin has this on steroids.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“I lot up investing in most of the derivative companies and stuff. And so I think I had a good spidey sense of which people had at least founder level ambition and could potentially build something.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“We interviewed, this is me and Terrence Rohan. I don't know if you know him, VC.”
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“Keith, thank you so much for doing this. I learned so much. This is going to help a lot of founders, a lot of people building stuff.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“Yeah, it's a great question because I think people can conflate two things. There's a difference between seeing it and understanding the potential.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“There's so many different words you can use to express the same concept, but the person who can say, "This is the way to frame it," the proverbial 1,000 songs in your market, is worth all the tools in the world.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“Interestingly on that line, there's a few companies that are launching, Simile is one, that is simulating humans. I don't know if you heard about this company.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“As back to back Super Bowl wins, I think he started the championship celebration parade with this chant of, "No days off.”
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“After years of sitting through these conversations at dinner with other CEOs or COOs, I realized that the fundamental driver of this is that the number of people that can independently drive an initiative from beginning, from inception to success is very limited within any company.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“I talked to my YC lecturer in 2014 about how to operate. They can be as simple as the now somewhat famous in technology smoothie test, which is, we used to have engineers work pretty hard at Square and pretty late.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“It's true at another great company that I'm on the board of that's incredible. And so I think you can be intellectually curious and future-proof yourself more than just, yes, you can work harder and a big subscriber to no days off and working all the time and all that stuff.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“Because again, if they're not training on the right data, it's dangerous to say you're simulating humans.”
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“There are things that were impossible to do in November that are actually pretty easy to do right now in March. And so I think you need to build an organization that's incredibly adept at, people say nimble and all that stuff, but incredibly adept at changing the roadmap almost on the fly.”
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“Sometimes it's controversial to say this, but one of the reasons why the net impact of my higher undiscovered talent is you wind up skewing younger. It's not because you need young people, it's that younger people have, by definition, less data.”
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“One thing I think you can learn to do is be excellent at references. It doesn't work for hiring people right out of college or something because the reference context is going to be a little off, but I think without getting better at interviewing and assessing, if you just learn to extract the right information from ruthless referencing.”
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“Peter taught me this literally the first week of my job at PayPal, that the way to build a company, we were jogging around the Stanford campuses, you've got to find these undiscovered talent.”
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“On references specifically, I think a general arc that's pretty good is asking the person, what would lead to this person being most successful?”
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“The most important lesson I learned when I was working at Square from my board was Vinod Khosla was on my board, and he said, "The team you build is the company you build.”
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