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“They've got these crypto assets they're trading frequently, and then they'll back a startup and then they'll trade that startup's token just like they trade Bitcoin or Ethereum. But in our view that's the wrong way.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“A big reason I'm more optimistic about a broader set of categories is because computer science in particular, now applies across more categories.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“ptimistic view on that is that it's the transition from these companies being in the bourgeois capitalist model to the managerial model that creates the opportunity for the new generation of startups. Because then the counterfactual, if these companies remained bourgeois capitalist companies for 100 years, then they would be the companies to create all the new products, and then we wouldn't necessarily need to exist because those companies would just do what startups do.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“I view it as — we're an enabling agent for at least enough of a resumption of bourgeois capitalism to be able to get new things built, even if most of the companies that we built ultimately themselves end up being run in the managerial model.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“I think there's a real possibility that basically every application category gets upended in the next five years.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“As a firm, we have a big focus on software, we think software is a wedge across each of those verticals.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“Education is a great example. I think the incumbent education system is trying to destroy itself.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“I think he would say that we're a hybrid, we're a managerial entity that is in the business of catalyzing and supporting bourgeois capitalist companies.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“I think 100% of the people we back have the intelligence to do it, maybe half of them have the temperament to do it, and then maybe half of those have the intelligence and the temperament and they really want to do it.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“There’s clearly going to be an educational revolution. Does that happen today or five years or ten years, I don’t know.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“By the way, I have a strategy and a theory for where the whale is. And maybe one guy is like — look, I'm gonna go where everybody knows there are whales and other guy’s gonna be like — no, that place is overfished, I'm gonna go to some other place where nobody thinks there's a whale, but I think there is.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“I was like ten in 2011 so I don’t know if I would’ve personally. I would’ve liked to think I would’ve caught on if I was older but maybe not.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“A consequence of that, that I think is pretty obvious, is that managerial capitalism has a big advantage that Burnham identified, which is that the managers are often very good at running things at scale.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“People I know who spend a lot of time revisiting old decisions are less effective because they mire themselves in what ifs and counterfactuals.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“I'd also say this — I don't know that there's actually a dividing line between that form of speculation, and speculation on what people call investments.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“That work really started kicking in in the 60s and 70s, a little bit later. And then he said — Look, the problem is there aren't other sectors that have had these huge investments in basic research.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“I always love meeting with new nuclear entrepreneurs, because it's just so obvious that we should have this big investment in nuclear energy and there's all these new designs.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“My favorite all time quote on being a startup founder is from Sean Parker, who says —“Starting a company is like chewing glass.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“If we hit five clean-tech sectors in a row or something like that, the whole thing just doesn't work.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“Erdoğan came out and he said, “I think Twitter is the primary challenge to the survival of any political regime in the modern world,” And I was like — Okay, all the smart analysts all think this is worthless and then a guy who's actually trying to keep control of a country is like, this is my number one threat.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“People are wired to respond to stress in different ways. And I think there are people who are wired to be extremely productive and get very happy under extreme levels of stress.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“I like nothing more at the end of the day than having a couple hours to be able to get outside of my own head and watch a really good movie.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast