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I asked Cameron McCord what silicon valley can learn from the Navy. His answer: Building a culture of deep retrospections on things that go wrong. On the submarine, when something went wrong, they ran "critiques" - the five whys, all the way to root cause. "Silicon Valley has traditionally... show more

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Sequoia’s Shaun Maguire says Silicon Valley is undergoing a "Copernican" shift and waking up to the fact that it revolves around a set of much larger industries, not the other way around: "In Silicon Valley, [there's] almost this Copernican principle — where people used to believe that the world revolved around the Earth, then realized that it revolves around the sun." "There's a Silicon Valley parallel where people think that all of technology, all of industry, revolves around Silicon Valley, but it's actually kind of the opposite." "Silicon Valley is Earth, and there are these much bigger forces and bodies, which include energy, the chemical industry, these giant supply chains, and the semiconductor industry, which has been around for a very long time. It was pretty advanced, and people in Silicon Valley forgot about it." "I don't like the language of other industries pivoting into AI. I actually think it's the opposite." "I think it's like Silicon Valley is waking up from its toddlerhood and realizing that there were these giant industries that we underestimated, and they're actually really freaking good at what they do. And we can all benefit by working together."

Sequoia’s Shaun Maguire says Silicon Valley is undergoing a "Copernican" shift and waking up to the fact that it revolves around a set of much larger industries, not the other way around: "In Silicon Valley, [there's] almost this Copernican principle — where people used to believe that the world revolved around the Earth, then realized that it revolves around the sun." "There's a Silicon Valley parallel where people think that all of technology, all of industry, revolves around Silicon Valley, but it's actually kind of the opposite." "Silicon Valley is Earth, and there are these much bigger forces and bodies, which include energy, the chemical industry, these giant supply chains, and the semiconductor industry, which has been around for a very long time. It was pretty advanced, and people in Silicon Valley forgot about it." "I don't like the language of other industries pivoting into AI. I actually think it's the opposite." "I think it's like Silicon Valley is waking up from its toddlerhood and realizing that there were these giant industries that we underestimated, and they're actually really freaking good at what they do. And we can all benefit by working together."

TBPN

238,386 views • 4 months ago

Ben Horowitz says Silicon Valley can’t be recreated anywhere else in the world because of America's unique culture: "I go all over the world, and everybody wants Silicon Valley, like — how can we have Silicon Valley in the UK? How can we have it in France?" "They have a lot of the ingredients. They have great talent. They’ve got great universities." "But there’s a cultural challenge where — succeeding, doing something larger than yourself, making the world a better place — those aren’t things that young people feel like society values." "So the likelihood, if you’re building a company, of getting people to work for you and dedicate their life to a mission, that is just not that great. Whereas in the US, it’s amazing." Source: benahorowitz.eth on Invest Like the Best with Patrick OShaughnessy

Ben Horowitz says Silicon Valley can’t be recreated anywhere else in the world because of America's unique culture: "I go all over the world, and everybody wants Silicon Valley, like — how can we have Silicon Valley in the UK? How can we have it in France?" "They have a lot of the ingredients. They have great talent. They’ve got great universities." "But there’s a cultural challenge where — succeeding, doing something larger than yourself, making the world a better place — those aren’t things that young people feel like society values." "So the likelihood, if you’re building a company, of getting people to work for you and dedicate their life to a mission, that is just not that great. Whereas in the US, it’s amazing." Source: benahorowitz.eth on Invest Like the Best with Patrick OShaughnessy

a16z

111,168 views • 6 months ago

David Sacks: Silicon Valley Was Built On Permissionless Innovation “ The thing that really makes Silicon Valley special is this concept of permissionless innovation.” “Since Hewlett and Packard 85 years ago started building Silicon Valley, the idea has always been that just a couple of founders can have a great idea, start their company, they get some angel investors to write a check for seed capital.” “Those investors think they're probably going to lose their money, but they figure there's a shot.” “It could be the two guys in their garage, or it could be the college dropout in the dorm room, and they don't need to go to Washington to get permission for their idea, right? It's permissionless innovation.” “That's what has made Silicon Valley the crown jewel of the world.” “It's why so many of the heads of state who are here are always asking, ‘How do we create our own Silicon Valley?’” “That was not the direction we were on when President Trump came into office.” “The new 300 pages of regulations concerning AI the Biden administration left us with would've changed this environment of permissionless innovation to an environment of you have to go to Washington to get approval for your idea.” “And I think that President Trump really corrected that.” “And since then, we've been implementing his AI action plan, which is all about pro-innovation, pro infrastructure, pro-energy, and pro-export.” “So it's been a total change. And I think just in the past year you've seen the results of that.”

David Sacks: Silicon Valley Was Built On Permissionless Innovation “ The thing that really makes Silicon Valley special is this concept of permissionless innovation.” “Since Hewlett and Packard 85 years ago started building Silicon Valley, the idea has always been that just a couple of founders can have a great idea, start their company, they get some angel investors to write a check for seed capital.” “Those investors think they're probably going to lose their money, but they figure there's a shot.” “It could be the two guys in their garage, or it could be the college dropout in the dorm room, and they don't need to go to Washington to get permission for their idea, right? It's permissionless innovation.” “That's what has made Silicon Valley the crown jewel of the world.” “It's why so many of the heads of state who are here are always asking, ‘How do we create our own Silicon Valley?’” “That was not the direction we were on when President Trump came into office.” “The new 300 pages of regulations concerning AI the Biden administration left us with would've changed this environment of permissionless innovation to an environment of you have to go to Washington to get approval for your idea.” “And I think that President Trump really corrected that.” “And since then, we've been implementing his AI action plan, which is all about pro-innovation, pro infrastructure, pro-energy, and pro-export.” “So it's been a total change. And I think just in the past year you've seen the results of that.”

The All-In Podcast

85,817 views • 6 months ago

General Catalyst CEO Hemant Taneja: Silicon Valley glorifies the wrong values. "Kindness and ambition are not at odds with each other." "In Silicon Valley, we glorify the 'asshole symptom' of founders thinking it's almost a necessary ingredient to succeed." "I don't think it has to be that way."

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General Catalyst CEO Hemant Taneja: Silicon Valley glorifies the wrong values. "Kindness and ambition are not at odds with each other." "In Silicon Valley, we glorify the 'asshole symptom' of founders thinking it's almost a necessary ingredient to succeed." "I don't think it has to be that way."

General Catalyst CEO Hemant Taneja: Silicon Valley glorifies the wrong values. "Kindness and ambition are not at odds with each other." "In Silicon Valley, we glorify the 'asshole symptom' of founders thinking it's almost a necessary ingredient to succeed." "I don't think it has to be that way."

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294,207 views • 15 days ago

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Arteta: “We know what is at stake and the fact that, as a club, we haven't done it for so long is a reason for that. It talks about the difficulty but I just want to focus on the things that we can control, dominate, and we have done. “It's not that we have to do a lot of new things that we haven't done. No, no, no, let's keep doing a lot of it or almost all the things that we've done for nine months, because that's what has taken us all the way there. “On Wednesday, I saw a lot of them. And today we've gone back so we need to learn, we need to be very critical of ourselves, and then pick ourselves up because on Wednesday we have a big one coming up.”

Connor Humm

21,397 views • 4 months ago

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105,363 views • 5 months ago

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The Bulwark

19,513 views • 5 months ago

Palantir cofounders Alex Karp AND Joe Lonsdale break down why average Americans hate Silicon Valley in the immediate aftermath of the SVB collapse: Lonsdale: “I remember being on the phone with Alex and a prominent VC 18 years ago. The guy was laughing saying we weren't a serious company because Alex didn't have a technical degree.” “Alex now has $1.5B in treasuries and no exposure to any of the banks in Silicon Valley. So, he showed that guy.” “That guy wanted us to do social media at the time. He said, ‘Why are you working in defense?’” Karp: “We lead the world in tech. We need the innovation, and Silicon Valley institutions are crucial.” “There is another issue— why is Silicon Valley unpopular? Leaving aside things that Joe’s invested in and cofounding Palantir, a lot of what Silicon Valley has done is not something that anyone wants to support.” “It's building these large industries where only a small group of people get wealthy and everyone else feels like, ‘Well, what did I get from it?’” “Why is Silicon Valley so unpopular? Because there are so few companies that choose America and its allies over our adversaries. That build things that actually have an impact on humans in America.” Lonsdale: “I work on a lot of healthcare companies and companies in biotech that have saved hundreds of lives and will save thousands of lives.” “Are there ridiculous things in tech? Were there monkey JPEGs? Yes. There's all sorts of ridiculous things. I think right now there's a lot of hate coming from people who think in terms of bumper stickers on the left and the right, tolling unwarranted.” Karp: “The thing that scares our adversaries the most— more than anything else— is the innovation in our American tech scene.” “Silicon Valley would do well to understand— we’re the bedrock of innovation in the world— why do most Americans not like us? Asking that simple but legitimate question is super important for our country.” “Silicon Valley once built things for the military and then exported it to everyday Americans. And all over the world. And de facto, that's what we've done.” Lonsdale: “There was definitely a bubble in tech.” “There were a lot of silly things going on that weren't focusing on the stuff that mattered, that Alex is talking about.” “You know, if Alex hadn't done what he'd done, he prevented tens of attacks on American soil. He saved the government billions of dollars.” Karp: “By the way— Joe is an incredible co-founder and a really courageous person.” Via FOX Business’ Liz Claman in March 2023.

Palantir cofounders Alex Karp AND Joe Lonsdale break down why average Americans hate Silicon Valley in the immediate aftermath of the SVB collapse: Lonsdale: “I remember being on the phone with Alex and a prominent VC 18 years ago. The guy was laughing saying we weren't a serious company because Alex didn't have a technical degree.” “Alex now has $1.5B in treasuries and no exposure to any of the banks in Silicon Valley. So, he showed that guy.” “That guy wanted us to do social media at the time. He said, ‘Why are you working in defense?’” Karp: “We lead the world in tech. We need the innovation, and Silicon Valley institutions are crucial.” “There is another issue— why is Silicon Valley unpopular? Leaving aside things that Joe’s invested in and cofounding Palantir, a lot of what Silicon Valley has done is not something that anyone wants to support.” “It's building these large industries where only a small group of people get wealthy and everyone else feels like, ‘Well, what did I get from it?’” “Why is Silicon Valley so unpopular? Because there are so few companies that choose America and its allies over our adversaries. That build things that actually have an impact on humans in America.” Lonsdale: “I work on a lot of healthcare companies and companies in biotech that have saved hundreds of lives and will save thousands of lives.” “Are there ridiculous things in tech? Were there monkey JPEGs? Yes. There's all sorts of ridiculous things. I think right now there's a lot of hate coming from people who think in terms of bumper stickers on the left and the right, tolling unwarranted.” Karp: “The thing that scares our adversaries the most— more than anything else— is the innovation in our American tech scene.” “Silicon Valley would do well to understand— we’re the bedrock of innovation in the world— why do most Americans not like us? Asking that simple but legitimate question is super important for our country.” “Silicon Valley once built things for the military and then exported it to everyday Americans. And all over the world. And de facto, that's what we've done.” Lonsdale: “There was definitely a bubble in tech.” “There were a lot of silly things going on that weren't focusing on the stuff that mattered, that Alex is talking about.” “You know, if Alex hadn't done what he'd done, he prevented tens of attacks on American soil. He saved the government billions of dollars.” Karp: “By the way— Joe is an incredible co-founder and a really courageous person.” Via FOX Business’ Liz Claman in March 2023.

Jawwwn

48,831 views • 5 months ago

To build anything that truly lasts, it takes time. When most tech companies were driven by the 'move fast and break things' mindset—we chose a different path. We thought: What if we stuck around? And so, we did. Over the last three decades, we didn't just build business software. We built a company that's fond of doing things the slow and steady way. Not because it's unconventional, but because it works. We think of this as a little flag in the ground that says: Still here. Still building. Still believing in the long run. It's an effort at celebrating what time and intention can achieve. #ItTakesTime

To build anything that truly lasts, it takes time. When most tech companies were driven by the 'move fast and break things' mindset—we chose a different path. We thought: What if we stuck around? And so, we did. Over the last three decades, we didn't just build business software. We built a company that's fond of doing things the slow and steady way. Not because it's unconventional, but because it works. We think of this as a little flag in the ground that says: Still here. Still building. Still believing in the long run. It's an effort at celebrating what time and intention can achieve. #ItTakesTime

Zoho

21,383 views • 1 year ago

Ben Horowitz says Silicon Valley is hard to recreate because it requires talent, policy, and culture: "The first is you do need the talent... is there a great technical university that graduates people who know how to build things?" "Many countries have that, that don't have a Silicon Valley. And what are they missing? They're missing the other two components." "The second is, do you have a set of laws and policies that facilitate entrepreneurship, are essentially good for business?" "The third one... is the culture such that young people, the most capable young people willing to make the biggest contribution, do they get status, social status reward?" "That's the thing that's so hard to replicate, and it's so hard to build, and it's so easy to destroy." benahorowitz.eth

Ben Horowitz says Silicon Valley is hard to recreate because it requires talent, policy, and culture: "The first is you do need the talent... is there a great technical university that graduates people who know how to build things?" "Many countries have that, that don't have a Silicon Valley. And what are they missing? They're missing the other two components." "The second is, do you have a set of laws and policies that facilitate entrepreneurship, are essentially good for business?" "The third one... is the culture such that young people, the most capable young people willing to make the biggest contribution, do they get status, social status reward?" "That's the thing that's so hard to replicate, and it's so hard to build, and it's so easy to destroy." benahorowitz.eth

a16z

69,888 views • 1 month ago

Joe Rogan: “It doesn't make sense to be on a team.” “I don't consider myself a Republican. I don't consider myself a Democrat either. I consider myself an American.” “There's a lot of things that the Democrats believe that I believe too. There's a lot of things that they say that makes a lot of sense to me.” “There's a lot of things that the Republicans say that makes a lot of sense to me too.” “The idea that I have to ignore things that make sense to me because it's coming from the wrong team is just stupid.”

Joe Rogan: “It doesn't make sense to be on a team.” “I don't consider myself a Republican. I don't consider myself a Democrat either. I consider myself an American.” “There's a lot of things that the Democrats believe that I believe too. There's a lot of things that they say that makes a lot of sense to me.” “There's a lot of things that the Republicans say that makes a lot of sense to me too.” “The idea that I have to ignore things that make sense to me because it's coming from the wrong team is just stupid.”

End Tribalism in Politics

4,981,745 views • 1 year ago

"It is fair to characterize the AI-building labs of Silicon Valley as religious movements. They really do think that they are building something akin to a machine god, and they're doing it because they want to just see what happens." ICYMI Casey Newton joins Tim Miller:

"It is fair to characterize the AI-building labs of Silicon Valley as religious movements. They really do think that they are building something akin to a machine god, and they're doing it because they want to just see what happens." ICYMI Casey Newton joins Tim Miller:

The Bulwark

28,990 views • 10 months ago

Me: I try to look at data and trends rather than headlines, because headlines can give you a misleading picture of the state of the world. Something goes wrong every day — that’s guaranteed — and if you just look at something goes wrong and say, oh, things are getting worse, you might be forgetting all the things that went wrong in the past. Andrew Marr: And what we call the news is a long litany of all the things that are getting worse or going wrong. Me: Well, yes, it’s much easier for something bad to happen suddenly than for something good to happen. Good things either creep up on you a few percentage points a year, and sometimes can compound. So the fact that, for example, extreme poverty in the world has been declining and a billion people have escaped extreme poverty over the last 30 years — but not on Thursday — so it was never an event from the news. One of the biggest events in human history is something that most people have never even heard of. Andrew Marr LBC

Me: I try to look at data and trends rather than headlines, because headlines can give you a misleading picture of the state of the world. Something goes wrong every day — that’s guaranteed — and if you just look at something goes wrong and say, oh, things are getting worse, you might be forgetting all the things that went wrong in the past. Andrew Marr: And what we call the news is a long litany of all the things that are getting worse or going wrong. Me: Well, yes, it’s much easier for something bad to happen suddenly than for something good to happen. Good things either creep up on you a few percentage points a year, and sometimes can compound. So the fact that, for example, extreme poverty in the world has been declining and a billion people have escaped extreme poverty over the last 30 years — but not on Thursday — so it was never an event from the news. One of the biggest events in human history is something that most people have never even heard of. Andrew Marr LBC

Steven Pinker

100,941 views • 8 months ago

DoorDash CEO Tony Xu says every single person at the company still does deliveries to this day, because there are 20 things that can go wrong bringing you a burrito and no way to learn them from behind a desk. "That is the DoorDash problem set, for better and for worse. I remember when we started DoorDash, I remember decomposing that there's almost like 20 mini systems, many little processes. If you imagine a checklist of just bringing you a burrito, there's 20 little things that you have to get right, because if anything goes wrong, you'd actually need to fix it." "And there's no way that you would know about this unless you actually did the deliveries yourself. This is exactly why, to this day, we still have everyone in the company dash, which is our way of saying doing deliveries. We still all do deliveries." "Because until you actually get into the physical world, until you find yourself stuck in the wrong elevator, or the wrong lobby to try to get upstairs to deliver something, until you get to the wrong alleyway for parking, until you get to the wrong place because you realize food gets made sometimes in three different stations inside a restaurant, until you actually experience those things, it's very difficult to a priori just intellectualize that and know about it."

DoorDash CEO Tony Xu says every single person at the company still does deliveries to this day, because there are 20 things that can go wrong bringing you a burrito and no way to learn them from behind a desk. "That is the DoorDash problem set, for better and for worse. I remember when we started DoorDash, I remember decomposing that there's almost like 20 mini systems, many little processes. If you imagine a checklist of just bringing you a burrito, there's 20 little things that you have to get right, because if anything goes wrong, you'd actually need to fix it." "And there's no way that you would know about this unless you actually did the deliveries yourself. This is exactly why, to this day, we still have everyone in the company dash, which is our way of saying doing deliveries. We still all do deliveries." "Because until you actually get into the physical world, until you find yourself stuck in the wrong elevator, or the wrong lobby to try to get upstairs to deliver something, until you get to the wrong alleyway for parking, until you get to the wrong place because you realize food gets made sometimes in three different stations inside a restaurant, until you actually experience those things, it's very difficult to a priori just intellectualize that and know about it."

Fireside Alpha

33,966 views • 16 days ago

I asked Trae about his idea of choosing Good Hard Quests and his encouragement to founders to work on things that make the world better. "If we take all of our level 100 players and we put them on AI slop companies, what does that mean for all of the things that aren't being done at the same time? I would really like our level 100 wizards to be fabricating semiconductors, or something that's gonna move the needle for humanity."

I asked Trae about his idea of choosing Good Hard Quests and his encouragement to founders to work on things that make the world better. "If we take all of our level 100 players and we put them on AI slop companies, what does that mean for all of the things that aren't being done at the same time? I would really like our level 100 wizards to be fabricating semiconductors, or something that's gonna move the needle for humanity."

Jack Altman

26,165 views • 8 months ago

BILL MAHER: “Anything that is f**king with how your body naturally functions, could also exacerbate something on the bad side … Not that I'm anti-vax or anything, but don't sit there in the white coats and say, ‘Just do what we say because when have we ever been wrong?’ You've been wrong a lot.”

BILL MAHER: “Anything that is f**king with how your body naturally functions, could also exacerbate something on the bad side … Not that I'm anti-vax or anything, but don't sit there in the white coats and say, ‘Just do what we say because when have we ever been wrong?’ You've been wrong a lot.”

Chief Nerd

189,311 views • 18 days ago

"We don't have enough machinists. We don't have enough quality inspectors. We don't have enough welders in the country." Hadrian CEO Chris Power on how a modern software-driven factory works differently from traditional manufacturing: "At that task level, we have to get them 90% more productive." "If you want to train a Navy welder today it's going to take you a decade. So we have to augment the skills with software." "The flexibility to constructing something like a submarine demands is incredibly what we call high-mix, low-volume." "If you're building a Toyota Camry you're making 20,000 of them a year... You can easily automate a million iPhones." "What the software enables is running at that level of factory productivity but with the flexibility that something like a submarine demands." "So it's really the velocity and agility and reducing the amount of people because we just don't have the people in the US." "We have to get this productivity uplift with software and a new workforce." Chris Power Hadrian David Ulevitch 🇺🇸

"We don't have enough machinists. We don't have enough quality inspectors. We don't have enough welders in the country." Hadrian CEO Chris Power on how a modern software-driven factory works differently from traditional manufacturing: "At that task level, we have to get them 90% more productive." "If you want to train a Navy welder today it's going to take you a decade. So we have to augment the skills with software." "The flexibility to constructing something like a submarine demands is incredibly what we call high-mix, low-volume." "If you're building a Toyota Camry you're making 20,000 of them a year... You can easily automate a million iPhones." "What the software enables is running at that level of factory productivity but with the flexibility that something like a submarine demands." "So it's really the velocity and agility and reducing the amount of people because we just don't have the people in the US." "We have to get this productivity uplift with software and a new workforce." Chris Power Hadrian David Ulevitch 🇺🇸

a16z

46,555 views • 4 months ago