Lenny's Podcast / episode intelligence
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01 / evaluation
“Something else this makes me think about is, I read this book a long time ago, Jim Collins ‘Good to Great’ or one of his early books about leadership, and he talks about level five leadership I think.”
02 / evaluation
“Somebody showed you the demo and you were like, “Oh my God, this is crazy.” And that's what I'm seeing right now, what's happening with everything on OpenAI and everything that is happening around LLM feels like magic and it's Delta 4 because the efficiency of doing things before and after is now showing that.”
03 / belief
“I absolutely don't believe in reading over and over because I believe that we are evolving.”
04 / belief
“Wait until you IPO, and then someday maybe leave CRED and then you could start this podcast with everyone like this and connect all the dots. And I think that's a reference to Danny Meyer who's the founder of all these fancy restaurants and big on hospitality and has this phrase “Always be collecting dots”, I think ABCD, I’ll link to that.”
05 / belief
“I think the simplest way to think about this is being able to correctly judge the butterfly effect of an event as close as possible.”
06 / belief
“I think Elon had this interesting point that wealth is just a database where everyone's wealth I guess is just a row in the database and here's how much everyone has and you're just transferring numbers around and that's the whole economy.”
07 / evaluation
“I believe that the biggest profit making scheme that I've seen in recent times is to tell people to love themselves and they'll pay you money for saying that.”
08 / evaluation
“No, I mean I've shared that enough, but I used to not talk about it before because I used to think that I would get some sympathy for that. And only in the recent past did I speak about it because I want people to realize that I was not some gifted kid who had some rich parents who made me extraordinarily bright and put me in great schools and colleges and I made my way through that.”
09 / evaluation
“As a philosophy major, I was a write-off for society. So the reason I'm the rare commodity over here, because you are not considered to be very bright unless you break into these very hard exams and do very, very hard things.”
10 / prediction
“I don't think they consciously think about it, but I think if they ever heard this, they would agree with it, because that's what they grew up with and value systems are much more long-term.”
11 / evaluation
“In the thousand most profitable companies in India, the number of retailers would be probably two or three. But if you look at the Western market, you'll see a bunch of them because it's a consumption market, plus a very high divorce rate which means you're always peacocking again in the market, you're trying to be fit and be cool and all of that.”
12 / prediction
“I often wonder, Lenny, that if you took the most serious people and made their GPT searches public, a lot of people will learn because the problem of GPT is now it'll make the people with great questions do well, versus people who are looking for basic answers.”
13 / prediction
“Therefore a lot of Indian founders who tried to copy the Western market saying, “I'm going to have a few hundred million users” make a terrible mistake because they will need to then go abroad to find their ARPUs to balance the act.”
14 / evaluation
“For example, we have a company like Tata that can do salt to car to jewelry to anything and people will buy it because it's a Tata brand, because it comes from a low trust society trusting the brand and not being, “Oh, I'm going to prefer this new brand.”
15 / commitment
“I think you should encourage it because we have to assume that we are going to be all co-pilots of AI now.”
16 / preference
“GPT is my favorite thing to keep asking random questions because now I don't need to really worry about Google having those questions answered around because I can ask the GPT.”