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Palantir CEO Alex Karp on value creation and avoiding “parasitic software”: “We drive our whole business based on a set of beliefs that are: American superiority.” “If you believe your client is noble—like, I believe our US government clients are not only noble, but they're no more noble than... I am.” “They're doing missions that will change world history for the better.” “If you know that the thing that's going to happen—downstream from that is you're going to resist building parasitic products.” “What you're supposed to be doing in software is—build something the client gets addicted to. Not the one they need.” “What very successful software companies do is say: they think they want X. We'll fake give them X, but we'll give them this thing that they can't get rid of.” “And then nothing else will work, but they'll just have to pay.”show more

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Sam Altman says tokens are "fake from of a business from value point of view." Open ai almost stopped charging on tokens. Sam Altman: "We almost made what would've been a bad call, to say we're not going to price our next model in tokens at all. You're just going to give it a prompt, and we're going to give you a price back. It's going to be like AWS to you. Just do something and we send you a bill." "But the customer response on that is so negative. They're like, 'I need to know what I'm paying for somehow." "I asked a few people, 'Would you rather pay more for the same output, but have it priced in some number of consistent tokens ?' Even if we inflated the tokens, they're like, 'Oh, I'd much rather you inflate the tokens and pay more, because I know there's a real thing there.' "People don't just want us to give them a price, because they feel like over the long term they're going to get screwed somehow." "I would rather not make up a fake unit. Tokens are a kind of fake unit. I mean, they're real in some sense, but they're not a good unit." "They're fake from a business value point of view."

Sam Altman says tokens are "fake from of a business from value point of view." Open ai almost stopped charging on tokens. Sam Altman: "We almost made what would've been a bad call, to say we're not going to price our next model in tokens at all. You're just going to give it a prompt, and we're going to give you a price back. It's going to be like AWS to you. Just do something and we send you a bill." "But the customer response on that is so negative. They're like, 'I need to know what I'm paying for somehow." "I asked a few people, 'Would you rather pay more for the same output, but have it priced in some number of consistent tokens ?' Even if we inflated the tokens, they're like, 'Oh, I'd much rather you inflate the tokens and pay more, because I know there's a real thing there.' "People don't just want us to give them a price, because they feel like over the long term they're going to get screwed somehow." "I would rather not make up a fake unit. Tokens are a kind of fake unit. I mean, they're real in some sense, but they're not a good unit." "They're fake from a business value point of view."

Vikram M

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Jordan Peterson: "If you're competent and silent you will be ignored." "You might think well people should reward you because you're competent. And yes of course they should. But if you're competent and silent then you're just part of the background that's keeping everything functioning" On why you cannot negotiate from a position of weakness: "If you want to push your career forward you have to push it forward. You have to be competent and you have to be strategic" "To be strategic when you negotiate for a new position or a new salary you have to be able to say if you don't give me what I want then something you don't like will happen to you" "It's not a physical threat. It's that you have an option" "You have your CV in order. You're educated and competent and desirable to people outside of your immediate job. You're willing to instantly put yourself on the job market" "So that when you go talk to the person you're negotiating with you're credible" On the one thing most people completely miss about negotiation: "It's very seldom that you're talking to the person who's at the top of the pecking order. What you need to do is tell them a story that they can tell to their boss to make you not a problem" "A good story is look we really need this person because they're hyper competent and they have a better offer" "If you go in there with no power you're going to lose. Obviously" He concludes with the one thing every competent person needs to hear: "The first thing you need to know if you're going to negotiate is that you have to be able to say no. And what no means is that you're not going to do it"

Jordan Peterson: "If you're competent and silent you will be ignored." "You might think well people should reward you because you're competent. And yes of course they should. But if you're competent and silent then you're just part of the background that's keeping everything functioning" On why you cannot negotiate from a position of weakness: "If you want to push your career forward you have to push it forward. You have to be competent and you have to be strategic" "To be strategic when you negotiate for a new position or a new salary you have to be able to say if you don't give me what I want then something you don't like will happen to you" "It's not a physical threat. It's that you have an option" "You have your CV in order. You're educated and competent and desirable to people outside of your immediate job. You're willing to instantly put yourself on the job market" "So that when you go talk to the person you're negotiating with you're credible" On the one thing most people completely miss about negotiation: "It's very seldom that you're talking to the person who's at the top of the pecking order. What you need to do is tell them a story that they can tell to their boss to make you not a problem" "A good story is look we really need this person because they're hyper competent and they have a better offer" "If you go in there with no power you're going to lose. Obviously" He concludes with the one thing every competent person needs to hear: "The first thing you need to know if you're going to negotiate is that you have to be able to say no. And what no means is that you're not going to do it"

Brad

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Palantir CEO Alex Karp on being anti-war: "Our products are built to avoid war—meaning the adversary knows that they will have such pain inflicted upon them that it's not worth going to war, and also to create social cohesion because we're going to bring back our troops healthier, safer, non-damaged, and that makes our society much more effective." "I grew up as a lefty. I don't actually like war. I want to avoid war. I don't support wars. Sometimes they are necessary. And when they are necessary, America and its allies need the very, very, very best tools." "The way to stop a war is for them to know these things work." "We do have a rival, an adversary on the battlefield. I happen to respect their culture quite a bit, China, but it is us or them. And they have a dynamic, interesting, super high IQ scaled culture that is doing exceedingly well at AI." "We built products that would protect civil liberties and stop terrorism—for the very simple reason that you don't want to do one or the other." "If you don't stop terrorism, you're going to get a radical fringe on the right. If you stop terrorism without rights, none of us want that."

Palantir CEO Alex Karp on being anti-war: "Our products are built to avoid war—meaning the adversary knows that they will have such pain inflicted upon them that it's not worth going to war, and also to create social cohesion because we're going to bring back our troops healthier, safer, non-damaged, and that makes our society much more effective." "I grew up as a lefty. I don't actually like war. I want to avoid war. I don't support wars. Sometimes they are necessary. And when they are necessary, America and its allies need the very, very, very best tools." "The way to stop a war is for them to know these things work." "We do have a rival, an adversary on the battlefield. I happen to respect their culture quite a bit, China, but it is us or them. And they have a dynamic, interesting, super high IQ scaled culture that is doing exceedingly well at AI." "We built products that would protect civil liberties and stop terrorism—for the very simple reason that you don't want to do one or the other." "If you don't stop terrorism, you're going to get a radical fringe on the right. If you stop terrorism without rights, none of us want that."

Jawwwn

18,094 views • 4 days ago

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Briahna Joy Gray

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Eve co-founder and CEO Jayanth Madheswaran says law firms are going to look more like software companies, with proprietary data as their edge: "I think the transformation that's going to happen is a lot of these law firms are going to look more like software companies. I think they're going to finally participate in the software revolution that's been happening for the last 30 years they've been left out of." "Let's say you have a $25,000 settlement. The attorney gets maybe a third of that, let's call it $8,000 for simplicity. And of that $8,000, about half of it goes towards labor spend, 30% goes to marketing, and the rest maybe is profit." "That's kind of the business as it exists today. Because of that business, it is so difficult to reinvest back into servicing your next client better. The only way you can really do that is by hiring a better attorney today." "What changes is now they can actually accrue a database and data set that is unique to them that gets them results that is better than their competitors for a subset of law." Jayanth Madheswaran

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CEOInterviews.AI

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🚨CFO Blaise Ingoglia says local governments are LYING when they say they will need to cut first responders when property taxes go away! “If you hear a local government official or an elected official say that if they have to cut their budget, that we are going to lose fire and police, you direct them to me, because I will prove to them that they have more than enough money to cut the budget, offer property tax relief, but yet also protect their first responders. And if a local government says that you are going to have longer wait times, we are not going to be able to hire enough police or deputies, what they are basically saying is that the last thing that they are thinking about is law enforcement, if that is the first thing that they are looking to cut. When you build the budget, the first rule of government is to protect its citizens.”

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Palantir CEO Alex Karp explains why your business is essentially fucked if it's not sovereign in the AI era: “What is a business? Why can you charge more than it costs you to produce? Because you have some unique way of doing something.” “You need to advance your unique capability, learn from the world, and never, ever expose to anyone else how you’re doing it exactly.” “The minute someone else can do any part of those things as well as you can, your pricing parity goes down, and at some point, your value goes down.” "Normal software is built to force you to adopt something that's parasitic. They take every one of those things, turn it into a commodity, and sell it to everyone else." "You talk to VCs, what they wanted to hear was, 'Clients will be unhappy, but they can't get rid of you.'" "Sticky is a metaphor for parasitic." "I get your data, I get it into something you can't get rid of. The thing turns into something I can sell to everybody else, who then can't get rid of it, and de facto, your multiple goes down and my multiple goes up, and all of us are happy, and hope at some point you realize you're sad... Hopefully after it's too sticky." Via Zeta David A Steinberg

Palantir CEO Alex Karp explains why your business is essentially fucked if it's not sovereign in the AI era: “What is a business? Why can you charge more than it costs you to produce? Because you have some unique way of doing something.” “You need to advance your unique capability, learn from the world, and never, ever expose to anyone else how you’re doing it exactly.” “The minute someone else can do any part of those things as well as you can, your pricing parity goes down, and at some point, your value goes down.” "Normal software is built to force you to adopt something that's parasitic. They take every one of those things, turn it into a commodity, and sell it to everyone else." "You talk to VCs, what they wanted to hear was, 'Clients will be unhappy, but they can't get rid of you.'" "Sticky is a metaphor for parasitic." "I get your data, I get it into something you can't get rid of. The thing turns into something I can sell to everybody else, who then can't get rid of it, and de facto, your multiple goes down and my multiple goes up, and all of us are happy, and hope at some point you realize you're sad... Hopefully after it's too sticky." Via Zeta David A Steinberg

Jawwwn

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IN ZIMBABWE YOU MUST KNOW, WHAT IS PROGRESSIVE IS ZANUPF AND THEY ARE OUR ALLIES, SAYS ANC - African National Congress "We might have problems with ZanuPF, but in Zimbabwe you must know, what is progressive and our allies is ZanuPF. And reactionaries do not want to us to say that. Nelson Chamisa and his allies are our allies. Our allies. They don't speak our language. They are not with us in this new world agenda of the alternative multipolar world we want to build, they're not with us. They're with the neoliberals, and the liberal agenda in the world. As the ANC we don't subscribe to that. We are anti-imperialists. So any political party that perpetuates the entrenchment of neocolonialism and imperialism is not our allies. Our allies can be committing blunders, including the former liberation movements, but they remain our allies... You know if we were to lose power Comrades, we will never comeback easily because development and boom of this economy is coming. And those who will win, they will look like they're nice guys who are understand where this country is going, yet it would have been due to the work done by the ANC. It's easy for anyone to open their mouths and criticise because that's what you suffer as an incumbent. Your task as an incumbent is to stay true to what you're supposed to do. That's why as I conclude, we must never be tolerant of people who are not doing the right things" ANC SECRETARY GENERAL | Fikile Mbalula Spot on Cde SG. Reactionaries and running dogs of imperialism who call themselves change champions do not understand that the change they purport to seek is not the transformational change that is needed. Amandla!

IN ZIMBABWE YOU MUST KNOW, WHAT IS PROGRESSIVE IS ZANUPF AND THEY ARE OUR ALLIES, SAYS ANC - African National Congress "We might have problems with ZanuPF, but in Zimbabwe you must know, what is progressive and our allies is ZanuPF. And reactionaries do not want to us to say that. Nelson Chamisa and his allies are our allies. Our allies. They don't speak our language. They are not with us in this new world agenda of the alternative multipolar world we want to build, they're not with us. They're with the neoliberals, and the liberal agenda in the world. As the ANC we don't subscribe to that. We are anti-imperialists. So any political party that perpetuates the entrenchment of neocolonialism and imperialism is not our allies. Our allies can be committing blunders, including the former liberation movements, but they remain our allies... You know if we were to lose power Comrades, we will never comeback easily because development and boom of this economy is coming. And those who will win, they will look like they're nice guys who are understand where this country is going, yet it would have been due to the work done by the ANC. It's easy for anyone to open their mouths and criticise because that's what you suffer as an incumbent. Your task as an incumbent is to stay true to what you're supposed to do. That's why as I conclude, we must never be tolerant of people who are not doing the right things" ANC SECRETARY GENERAL | Fikile Mbalula Spot on Cde SG. Reactionaries and running dogs of imperialism who call themselves change champions do not understand that the change they purport to seek is not the transformational change that is needed. Amandla!

Prof Jonathan Moyo

356,541 views • 3 years ago

$I hear so often from the Dommes I work with that they struggle with people online fetichizing them and simply seeing them for how sexy and beautiful they are. They project their fantasies and their desires onto you. That stops immediately once you move the attention from you to them. From 'look at me' to 'I see you'. What does that look like? When you create content, think of them and what this scene or that narrative is evoking. What will they learn from you? What they want is not to passively watch how sexy you are, but for you to train them, to give them instructions, to teach them, to guide them, to be in charge, to command them. This is not being an object but the main subject. The Authority figure. How is your content already doing that. The sexy photos can still be there, they are important to already capture des attention. But what you do with that attention once you have it, is where the power dynamic is established. Positioning yourself as more than a stunning Goddess, but actually a woman who has a voice, opinions, perspective, a philosophy, a way to doing things, teaching them what you like, how you like it, why you like it, already makes them want to be that for you. You hold the attention, you hold the power, so you direct it. And for that, you want them to know you get them and you know what lives within them... that creates the desire for you to be the one exposing it. You instantly build trust. Not because you demanded it, but because you earned it: you showed them you know what you are doing. You have experience, you understand them. They are not told to come see you, they are seduced into it. They desire it. And they will work for it. This will attract better clients (real subs) and instead of you trying to get their attention, they will work to earn yours. If you want to learn more about power dynamics, building a brand as a Pro or the psychology behind BDSM, you can now access all my trainings and classes in one place for a fraction of the cost of The Dominatrix Academy. And you can reinvest the total amount towards the Program. Message me [SECRET] for the details. This offer is not available on my website.$

I hear so often from the Dommes I work with that they struggle with people online fetichizing them and simply seeing them for how sexy and beautiful they are. They project their fantasies and their desires onto you. That stops immediately once you move the attention from you to them. From 'look at me' to 'I see you'. What does that look like? When you create content, think of them and what this scene or that narrative is evoking. What will they learn from you? What they want is not to passively watch how sexy you are, but for you to train them, to give them instructions, to teach them, to guide them, to be in charge, to command them. This is not being an object but the main subject. The Authority figure. How is your content already doing that. The sexy photos can still be there, they are important to already capture des attention. But what you do with that attention once you have it, is where the power dynamic is established. Positioning yourself as more than a stunning Goddess, but actually a woman who has a voice, opinions, perspective, a philosophy, a way to doing things, teaching them what you like, how you like it, why you like it, already makes them want to be that for you. You hold the attention, you hold the power, so you direct it. And for that, you want them to know you get them and you know what lives within them... that creates the desire for you to be the one exposing it. You instantly build trust. Not because you demanded it, but because you earned it: you showed them you know what you are doing. You have experience, you understand them. They are not told to come see you, they are seduced into it. They desire it. And they will work for it. This will attract better clients (real subs) and instead of you trying to get their attention, they will work to earn yours. If you want to learn more about power dynamics, building a brand as a Pro or the psychology behind BDSM, you can now access all my trainings and classes in one place for a fraction of the cost of The Dominatrix Academy. And you can reinvest the total amount towards the Program. Message me [SECRET] for the details. This offer is not available on my website.

Ms. Malissia

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AND THAT HE SAID. 🎙️: "antonelli said that mercedes is not the fastest car anymore and mclaren is way too fast in zandvoort. and russell said mclaren is the team to beat. is that to put pressure on you?" lando: "well, they're not going to say themselves, are they? they're not going to say that they're the team to beat, if they just got beaten today. so i don't think it's true. i think if i didn't get kimi when i overtook him, i don't think i would have won the race today. it's hard to say. but i also know how good of a job i'm doing behind the wheel, and of course i'm never one to over-talk about myself, so normally i'm always the complete opposite. but for once i will give myself a little bit of credit that i feel like i'm doing a better job than everyone, and i think that can also make a difference. we certainly have a car now capable of beating them, even like we looked at yesterday in qualifying, but we didn't win yesterday, and we didn't really change much. but i worked a lot on my driving. i want to believe more than everyone else again, and we turned things around today.."

AND THAT HE SAID. 🎙️: "antonelli said that mercedes is not the fastest car anymore and mclaren is way too fast in zandvoort. and russell said mclaren is the team to beat. is that to put pressure on you?" lando: "well, they're not going to say themselves, are they? they're not going to say that they're the team to beat, if they just got beaten today. so i don't think it's true. i think if i didn't get kimi when i overtook him, i don't think i would have won the race today. it's hard to say. but i also know how good of a job i'm doing behind the wheel, and of course i'm never one to over-talk about myself, so normally i'm always the complete opposite. but for once i will give myself a little bit of credit that i feel like i'm doing a better job than everyone, and i think that can also make a difference. we certainly have a car now capable of beating them, even like we looked at yesterday in qualifying, but we didn't win yesterday, and we didn't really change much. but i worked a lot on my driving. i want to believe more than everyone else again, and we turned things around today.."

ray

478,094 views • 2 months ago

What the establishment wants you to believe is that you are powerless. They have all the wealth, they have all the power and you have nothing. That is what they want us to believe. And our job is to say to them: "Go to hell."

What the establishment wants you to believe is that you are powerless. They have all the wealth, they have all the power and you have nothing. That is what they want us to believe. And our job is to say to them: "Go to hell."

Bernie Sanders

174,589 views • 1 year ago

Sam Presti on the fans & OKC being one of the best places to play: “And the last thing I thought I would say is people talk all the time about how Oklahoma City is one of the best places, if not the best place to play. And a lot of times when they say that, they really start thinking about, well, it's the greatest place because when it's when it's firing on all cylinders, you got the crowd going crazy, the t-shirts on the seats, it's warm outside, you got playoff games, you're having celebrations for players getting awards and things like that. It really is a great place, but I also think it's considered one of the best places to play because the fans are awesome when the wind isn't at your back also. And that is something I think is going to be really important for us as we, you know, work through the next steps. And why I think from a community standpoint, from our fans, all around t he world, quite frankly, but especially here, you know, I understand how disappointed they are. I understand, really, how hurt they are because they care so much about our players. And they want everybody to do well. And we love them for that reason. And these types of situations are where you really see the connection between a team and a group of athletes. And I'm very confident that as we take the next steps, we're going to learn a lot about each other, we'll learn about a lot about our community. But I know how that's going to end up. It's going to be a continuous love affair. So we'll wrap our arms around these guys, we'll get them back, we'll get them healthy. But we have a lot of basketball to play in front of us. And we got to, you know, put it together, figure out what the next steps are because this is part of the business that we're in."

Sam Presti on the fans & OKC being one of the best places to play: “And the last thing I thought I would say is people talk all the time about how Oklahoma City is one of the best places, if not the best place to play. And a lot of times when they say that, they really start thinking about, well, it's the greatest place because when it's when it's firing on all cylinders, you got the crowd going crazy, the t-shirts on the seats, it's warm outside, you got playoff games, you're having celebrations for players getting awards and things like that. It really is a great place, but I also think it's considered one of the best places to play because the fans are awesome when the wind isn't at your back also. And that is something I think is going to be really important for us as we, you know, work through the next steps. And why I think from a community standpoint, from our fans, all around t he world, quite frankly, but especially here, you know, I understand how disappointed they are. I understand, really, how hurt they are because they care so much about our players. And they want everybody to do well. And we love them for that reason. And these types of situations are where you really see the connection between a team and a group of athletes. And I'm very confident that as we take the next steps, we're going to learn a lot about each other, we'll learn about a lot about our community. But I know how that's going to end up. It's going to be a continuous love affair. So we'll wrap our arms around these guys, we'll get them back, we'll get them healthy. But we have a lot of basketball to play in front of us. And we got to, you know, put it together, figure out what the next steps are because this is part of the business that we're in."

Thunder Film Room

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Rich Roll on why waiting to "feel like it" is a trap: "You can't think your way into the mood that you seek or the state of mind that you aspire to inhabit. Action is the only thing that can trigger that change." Rich uses running as the perfect illustration of this principle. Imagine you wake up in the morning and you're supposed to do a run because you're training for a race. You don't feel like it. So what do most of us do? "We all resort to that state where we think, 'Well, I don't want to do it right now. I'll just wait until I feel like doing it and then I'll do it then.'" But here's the problem with that logic: "If you're waiting until you feel like doing something, chances are you're probably never going to get to it." The mood you're hoping will arrive on its own? It's not coming. Not without action first. "To take the action despite how you feel about it is the thing that catalyzes the state change." You don't run because you feel motivated. You feel motivated because you ran. He points to what every runner knows from experience: "When they finish the run, they're always glad that they did it. They don't generally regret it. And then they feel better." Notice the sequence. The good feeling comes after the action, not before it. The state change is the reward for showing up, not the prerequisite. And this isn't just about running. As Rich puts it: "That example is applicable to all areas of life." The workout you're avoiding. The conversation you're delaying. The project you're putting off until you're "in the right headspace." You're waiting for a feeling that only exists on the other side of doing the thing.

Rich Roll on why waiting to "feel like it" is a trap: "You can't think your way into the mood that you seek or the state of mind that you aspire to inhabit. Action is the only thing that can trigger that change." Rich uses running as the perfect illustration of this principle. Imagine you wake up in the morning and you're supposed to do a run because you're training for a race. You don't feel like it. So what do most of us do? "We all resort to that state where we think, 'Well, I don't want to do it right now. I'll just wait until I feel like doing it and then I'll do it then.'" But here's the problem with that logic: "If you're waiting until you feel like doing something, chances are you're probably never going to get to it." The mood you're hoping will arrive on its own? It's not coming. Not without action first. "To take the action despite how you feel about it is the thing that catalyzes the state change." You don't run because you feel motivated. You feel motivated because you ran. He points to what every runner knows from experience: "When they finish the run, they're always glad that they did it. They don't generally regret it. And then they feel better." Notice the sequence. The good feeling comes after the action, not before it. The state change is the reward for showing up, not the prerequisite. And this isn't just about running. As Rich puts it: "That example is applicable to all areas of life." The workout you're avoiding. The conversation you're delaying. The project you're putting off until you're "in the right headspace." You're waiting for a feeling that only exists on the other side of doing the thing.

Kevin Tanaka

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