Even Vince has acknowledged that he really enjoyed playing this character because in many ways this character was true to real life. In real life, he was philandering. He had many affairs. He was ruthless, sometimes contractually, with his wrestlers.
People don't resent billionaires. People want to become billionaires. People resent billionaires when they forget that the purpose of business is to create happiness, not who dies with the most toys.
It's the nature of business that the eulogy for a chief executive doesn't happen when they die, but when they retire, or in the case of Apple CEO Tim Cook announced that they will step up to the role of executive chairman on September 1st.
Sam Altman, against the backdrop of Silicon Valley hype culture and startups that balloon to massive valuations based on promises that may or may not come to pass in the future, and an increasing embrace of a founder culture that thinks telling different groups different conflicting things is a feature, not a bug…Even against that backdrop, Sam Altman is an extraordinary case where everyone in Silicon Valley who expects those things can't stop talking about this question of his trustworthiness and his honesty.
When people have to pitch a story, not a fifty page business case, and justify why their ideas deserve another few million dollars, they suddenly start thinking like founders instead of managers.
I wanted to do this show that didn't exist when I was a kid, and I knew the talent was out there. You know, I found Bruno Mars and put him on the show when he was two feet tall. I wanted those things that Johnny didn't do.
I'm not going to tell you what you want to hear. I'm going to tell you what I think you need to know and we're in this together rather than trying to fight each other all the time.
It's really important to have places and physicians and institutions that can meet them where they are. And it's not that I didn't feel like I was doing that in my own office space. It's just that I felt like I could do it better.
The standard communications playbook just doesn't apply to us. We're not a typical company. We're driving a really big technological shift and the mission of bringing AGI to the world comes a responsibility to help create a space for real constructive conversation about the changes AI creates with builders and people using the technology at the center.
With the mission of bringing AGI to the world comes a responsibility to help create a space for real constructive conversation about the changes AI creates with builders and people using the technology at the center.
I think we all to some degree feel this way as we go through life, like unprepared, unqualified, and reluctant yet important things are relying on me. So, I have to come through.
Jones wasn't necessarily explicitly telling us to lie. I think if he was doing that, he wouldn't have as many people working for him because there was this pretend idea that we were searching for the truth. He more so undermined us, made us question our own findings, made us question our own abilities, our own competence.
It's really amazing that he doesn't want other inputs like that may vary from his rich friends. It's just I find it it's just not good policy not to have people who doubt each other and debate it.
When you have corruption like this at this scale, if you're a young kid, if you're a young Scott Galloway, a young Anthony Scaramucci, you're looking up and you're seeing a concrete ceiling.
Getting a 2x over a decade is not what I think people were expecting from Uber under Travis's leadership. Uh, it and Lyft has fallen to just five billion. like he won the capital war and Dar has done a great job managing the business, but I feel like a lot of the success of Uber has been built on the foundation that Travis set up.
And Mullen didn't really have that same kind of identity. And so I was kind of curious what his political acumen was when it came to sovereignty in policies that affected native people.
Because of this persistent migration pattern over a long period of time, if someone got too bossy or even just got too much influence, someone else was usually moving down the river and saying, "They're not my chief." So, Ojibwe culture tended to be very tolerant of cultural variation, but very intolerant of being told what to do.
What we're doing is we're creating a hero's journey for somebody. And what we're surrounding him with are this cast of bizarre, eccentric weirdos and hopefully carving out a path for him to become the leader at the end and have his 12 Angry Men moment where he inspires us all and unites us and then we pull the curtain back and celebrate him as a human being.
We have made a sustained and very deliberate investment over a very long period of time in original independent journalism. That's in journalists, and in the support system structure around them to make sure they can do extraordinary work.
In the customer service business is is tough but in the end you know you can have a real influence on people um on you know the experience you ultimately provide and how you choose to react to the situation.
When you're handling a crisis, and this is a crisis, the death of civilians, especially children, is obviously pretty ugly. You acknowledge the issue, you take responsibility, and you try and overcorrect.
I know that any army private to general who did the same thing would have been held to account and I think it's very important as a leader that the leaders subject themselves to the same disciplines that they subject others to.
You also got Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross. These guys have backed a lot of founders. They've worked with a lot of AI startups. They can understand the team that they're trying to build over there.
negotiation is just steering. It's about steering the relationships in your life, building those relationships, so when you get to the place where you do need to negotiate something difficult, you're in a much better place to have successful outcomes.
We need group centered leadership. We need people centered leadership. And I think that's a much harder effort to thwart than it is when you just have one individual who has to represent all interests of all people.
Formula One is three sports in one. It is, of course, the world's best race car drivers showcasing their skills, but it's also the World Cup of Engineering... And as one listener put it to us, It's also the World Cup of Office Politics, or as another one put it, it's Real Housewives of the Garage.
negotiation is just steering. It's about steering the relationships in your life, building those relationships. So when you get to the place where you do need to negotiate something difficult, you're in a much better place to have successful outcomes.
Mortal danger was actually, I think, a core part of the appeal of the sport in those early days. These guys were gladiators. They were risking their life every time they got in a car.
