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Mark Zuckerberg on why he prefers to recruit people directly out of college In this interview from 2005, a 21-year-old Mark Zuckerberg is asked what he looks for in a new hire. There’s two things, he says. “Number one is raw intelligence. You can hire someone who has been doing software engineering for 10 years, and if they’ve been doing it for 10 years, that’s probably what they’ll be doing for the rest of their life. That’s cool — there are some things that that person can do and they’re definitely useful in an organization and can do a lot of stuff. But if you find someone whose raw intelligence exceeds theirs but has 10 years less experience, they can probably adapt and learn way quicker. Within a very short amount of time they’ll be able to do a lot of things that [the person with 10 years of experience] will never be able to do. So that’s the most important thing that I look for.” The second thing he looks for is alignment with what the company is trying to do: “People can be really smart or have skills that are directly applicable, but if they don’t really believe in it, then they’re not going to work hard or care enough to develop the relevant experience in order to succeed. The best people I’ve hired so far have been people who didn’t really have that much engineering experience. I hired a couple of electric engineers out of Stanford to do programming stuff, and they had very little programming experience going in, but they were really smart and really willing to go at it. The guy who just wrote photos was one of those guys, and if you’re willing to just do whatever it takes to get photos out, then you’re probably more valuable than someone who is just a career software engineer.” He concludes: “Those are the things I’m looking for and why I would rather recruit people out of college.” Video source: Stanford eCorner (2005)
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Mark Zuckerberg on why he prefers to recruit people directly out of college In this interview from 2005, a 21-year-old Mark Zuckerberg is asked what he looks for in a new hire. There’s two things, he says. “Number one is raw intelligence. You can hire someone who has been doing software engineering for 10 years, and if they’ve been doing it for 10 years, that’s probably what they’ll be doing for the rest of their life. That’s cool — there are some things that that person can do and they’re definitely useful in an organization and can do a lot of stuff. But if you find someone whose raw intelligence exceeds theirs but has 10 years less experience, they can probably adapt and learn way quicker. Within a very short amount of time they’ll be able to do a lot of things that [the person with 10 years of experience] will never be able to do. So that’s the most important thing that I look for.” The second thing he looks for is alignment with what the company is trying to do: “People can be really smart or have skills that are directly applicable, but if they don’t really believe in it, then they’re not going to work hard or care enough to develop the relevant experience in order to succeed. The best people I’ve hired so far have been people who didn’t really have that much engineering experience. I hired a couple of electric engineers out of Stanford to do programming stuff, and they had very little programming experience going in, but they were really smart and really willing to go at it. The guy who just wrote photos was one of those guys, and if you’re willing to just do whatever it takes to get photos out, then you’re probably more valuable than someone who is just a career software engineer.” He concludes: “Those are the things I’m looking for and why I would rather recruit people out of college.” Video source: Stanford eCorner (2005)

Startup Archive

54,696 views • 7 months ago

Mark Zuckerberg: "I'd rather hire someone with raw intelligence and no experience than a 10-year veteran" "The two most important things I look for, number one is just raw intelligence." Zuckerberg explains why: "You can hire someone who is a software engineer and has been doing it for 10 years. If they've been doing it for 10 years, that's probably what they're doing for their life. And that's cool. There are things that person can do. They're definitely useful in an organization." But here's the tradeoff: "If you find someone whose raw intelligence exceeds theirs but has way less experience, they can probably adapt and learn way quicker. Within a very short amount of time, they'll be able to do a lot of things that the experienced person may never be able to do." The second thing he looks for: "Alignment with what we're trying to do. People can be really smart or have skills that are directly applicable. But if they don't really believe in it, they're not going to work hard. Even if they're a smart guy who doesn't have the relevant experience, if they don't care enough, they're not going to develop the relevant experience in order to succeed." On who he's actually hired: "The best people I've hired so far have been people who didn't really have that much engineering experience. I hired a couple of electrical engineers out of Stanford as new programming staff. They had very little programming experience going in. But just really smart. Really willing to go at it." He gives an example: "The guy who built Photos was one of those guys. If you're willing to just go and do whatever it takes to get it out, you're probably more valuable than someone who's just a career software engineer."
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Jaynit

401,845 views • 4 months ago

.Rob Miles is spitting fire: “People are starting from a prior in which ‘[AIs] are safe until you give me an airtight case for why they're dangerous.’ This framing is exhausting. You explain one of the 10,000 ways that AIs could be dangerous, then they explain why they don't think that specific thing would happen. Then you have to change tack, and then they say, 'your story keeps changing'... "If you're building an AGI, it's like building a Saturn V rocket [but with every human on it]. It's a complex, difficult engineering task, and you're going to try and make it aligned, which means it's going to deliver people to the moon and home again. People ask “why assume they won't just land on the Moon and return home safely?" And I'm like, because you don't know what you're doing! If you try to send people to the moon and you don't know what you're doing, your astronauts will die. [Unlike the telephone, or electricity, where you can assume it’s probably going to work out okay] I contend that ASI is more like the moon rocket. "The moon is small compared with the rest of the sky, so you don't get to the moon by default - you hit some part of the sky that isn't the moon. So, show me the plan by which you predict to specifically hit the moon." And then people say, “how do you predict that [AIs] will want bad things?” There's more bad things than good things! It's not actually a complicated argument... I'm not going to predict specifically where it off into random space your astronauts are going, but you're not going to hit the moon unless you have a really good, technically clear plan for how you do it. And if you ask these people for their plan, they don't have one. What's Yann Lecun’s plan?” "I think that if you're building an enormously powerful technology and you have a lot of uncertainty about what's going to happen, this is bad. Like, this is default unsafe. If you've got something that's going to do enormously influential things in the world, and you don't know what enormously influential things it's going to do, this thing is unsafe until you can convince me that it's safe." HOST: “That’s a good way of thinking about it - with some technologies you can assume that the default will be good or at least neutral, or that the capacity of a person to use this in a very bad way is bounded somehow. There's just only so many people you could electrocute one by one."
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.Rob Miles is spitting fire: “People are starting from a prior in which ‘[AIs] are safe until you give me an airtight case for why they're dangerous.’ This framing is exhausting. You explain one of the 10,000 ways that AIs could be dangerous, then they explain why they don't think that specific thing would happen. Then you have to change tack, and then they say, 'your story keeps changing'... "If you're building an AGI, it's like building a Saturn V rocket [but with every human on it]. It's a complex, difficult engineering task, and you're going to try and make it aligned, which means it's going to deliver people to the moon and home again. People ask “why assume they won't just land on the Moon and return home safely?" And I'm like, because you don't know what you're doing! If you try to send people to the moon and you don't know what you're doing, your astronauts will die. [Unlike the telephone, or electricity, where you can assume it’s probably going to work out okay] I contend that ASI is more like the moon rocket. "The moon is small compared with the rest of the sky, so you don't get to the moon by default - you hit some part of the sky that isn't the moon. So, show me the plan by which you predict to specifically hit the moon." And then people say, “how do you predict that [AIs] will want bad things?” There's more bad things than good things! It's not actually a complicated argument... I'm not going to predict specifically where it off into random space your astronauts are going, but you're not going to hit the moon unless you have a really good, technically clear plan for how you do it. And if you ask these people for their plan, they don't have one. What's Yann Lecun’s plan?” "I think that if you're building an enormously powerful technology and you have a lot of uncertainty about what's going to happen, this is bad. Like, this is default unsafe. If you've got something that's going to do enormously influential things in the world, and you don't know what enormously influential things it's going to do, this thing is unsafe until you can convince me that it's safe." HOST: “That’s a good way of thinking about it - with some technologies you can assume that the default will be good or at least neutral, or that the capacity of a person to use this in a very bad way is bounded somehow. There's just only so many people you could electrocute one by one."

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Sam Altman: "I'm not a jobs doomer at all. I think there are gonna be tons of jobs." "If we could go back to 2019 and show people our latest model, not only would they say that it's AGI, they would say that the economy would have been completely upended. And that has not happened. Anytime you're that wrong and that confident, which I think we were as a field, you have to update. AI is just very jagged. It's like superhuman genius in some ways, like dumb toddler in others. And people have, so far, extremely complementary skills to AI. It's not taste…the world may need a new kind of word for the kind of judgment that people are very good at that AIs seem to really deeply struggle with. You can go hire an AI consultant right now or talk to an AI sales rep or hire an AI engineer. And somehow most people seem to still really prefer interacting with a human. I definitely would rather engage with a person than engage with an AI for almost everything. Human values have value because they're human. We are deeply hardwired to care about people."

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66,324 views • 25 days ago

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The founders of Stripe and Pinterest on how to convince people to join your startup Stripe CEO Patrick Collison argues that part of the reason startups resonate so much is because the outcome is not guaranteed: "If it were guaranteed, it would be boring... Whether or not you're the best person in the world at what you do, you're probably not going to alter Google's trajectory. But if you really want to benchmark yourself and see how much of a contribution and impact you can make--which is a really compelling prospect for a lot of the best people--a startup is a much better place to test that." Pinterest founder Ben Silbermann emphasized this as well: "No smart person that you're hiring is under the illusion that you have a crystal ball into the future and that joining is a guaranteed thing. In fact, if you're telling them that and they select in, you shouldn't hire them because they didn't pass a basic intelligence test. I think it's important to tell them what's exciting and where you think the company can go. But also tell them where it will be hard and chart your best plan. And then tell them why their role can be instrumental--because it will be... What I would discourage doing is whitewashing all of that. If people are joining your company because they want all of the certainty and safety of working at Google but also the perks of working at a small startup with lots of responsibility and transparency, that's a really negative sign." Apparently in the early days of PayPal, Peter Thiel and Max Levchin would tell people after they interviewed all the reasons that the company would fail: "Visa and MasterCard want to kill us. We also might be doing something that's illegal. But if we succeed, we'll redefine payments." Don't whitewash the risks. Instead tell them how your startup will change the world if you succeed and how their role will be instrumental in affecting that change. Video source: Y Combinator (2014)

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11,811 views • 9 months ago

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co-founder of Ramp, Eric Glyman on hiring: "We often like to write very short job descriptions. If there's one thing that matters, go just for that. Have the interviews center around just one thing and look for extraordinary spikes." some of the early hires at Ramp were 15 or 17 and known in the Minecraft community for being kids making private servers and building successful businesses to pay their way through college. their code wouldn't pass a Google review, but it was an early sign that they could build something from nothing, figure out the hard parts, and ship it to real users. as we build out the team at Lyra, this is something I keep coming back to, because as Eric said: "It's so hard to be excellent at anything. And if you can find someone who is excellent at something, even if it's very distinct or weird or a certain hobby, that's a sign that someone probably has what you're really looking for."

Courtne Marland

53,316 views • 5 months ago

Sam Altman: "I'm not a jobs doomer at all. I think there are gonna be tons of jobs.” If we could go back to 2019 and show people our latest model, not only would they say that it's AGI, they would say that the economy would have been completely upended. And that has not happened. Anytime you're that wrong and that confident, which I think we were as a field, you have to update. AI is just very jagged. It's like superhuman genius in some ways, like dumb toddler in others. And people have, so far, extremely complementary skills to AI. It’s not taste…the world may need a new kind of word for the kind of judgment that people are very good at that AIs seem to really deeply struggle with. You can go hire an AI consultant right now or talk to an AI sales rep or hire an AI engineer. And somehow most people seem to still really prefer interacting with a human. I definitely would rather engage with a person than engage with an AI for almost everything. Human values have value because they're human. We are deeply hardwired to care about people.”
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Sam Altman: "I'm not a jobs doomer at all. I think there are gonna be tons of jobs.” If we could go back to 2019 and show people our latest model, not only would they say that it's AGI, they would say that the economy would have been completely upended. And that has not happened. Anytime you're that wrong and that confident, which I think we were as a field, you have to update. AI is just very jagged. It's like superhuman genius in some ways, like dumb toddler in others. And people have, so far, extremely complementary skills to AI. It’s not taste…the world may need a new kind of word for the kind of judgment that people are very good at that AIs seem to really deeply struggle with. You can go hire an AI consultant right now or talk to an AI sales rep or hire an AI engineer. And somehow most people seem to still really prefer interacting with a human. I definitely would rather engage with a person than engage with an AI for almost everything. Human values have value because they're human. We are deeply hardwired to care about people.”

Invest Like the Best

20,730 views • 1 month ago

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"
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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"

Brad

34,992 views • 28 days ago

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.Naval: Smart people, capable people, don't let themselves be pigeonholed into one definition. That is a disease of credentialism because we created this university system, and now you have to go to university and get a degree in something. Then people ask, "What is your expertise? What is your credential?" That's a question dumb people ask. Smart people don't ask that. Smart people don't need to know your credentials. They just talk to you for five minutes, and they figure out if you know what you're talking about or not. A really good person, a so-called natural philosopher, can be good at any branch of anything. Nature has no boundaries. Nature has no concept of mathematics versus physics versus chemistry. It is all one thing. Anyone who's either meditated, done psychedelics, or read enough books, they figure that out: it's all one thing. When you find one thing, it connects to the next thing, connects to the next thing, connects to the next thing. And true creativity jumps boundaries. It can go from anywhere to anywhere. It doesn't have to follow a path of interconnections in between.

Arjun Khemani

369,537 views • 2 years ago

Chamath describes Donald Trump: "I've seen some of the most incredible survivors, they have that one skill." "Oh, he's really inspiring. I mean, I have to say here that in my limited interactions with him, he's really curious. He's really smart. His intuition is off the charts. I'll tell you a very specific example. Had a meeting with him, I had a complicated-" "What were you pitching him?" "It's not a pitch. I was just walking him through some structural issues in this specific case and electricity rates, and you know, the underlying reasons why, which have more to do with the utilities, data centers, water consumption, and then some structural decrease in Americans' electricity, right? It's like a 15-page deck, and he's one of these guys where he's listening, he'll scan it, he's scanning it while he listens to you, and then he goes right to the one thing. And I have a lot of respect for this because I've seen some of the most incredible survivors, the people that have that one skill. They can go in and go to that thing, that little detail, that thread and pull it. So my experience with him is quite impressive; when I anchor him to the other people I've been with, he's really up there."
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Chamath describes Donald Trump: "I've seen some of the most incredible survivors, they have that one skill." "Oh, he's really inspiring. I mean, I have to say here that in my limited interactions with him, he's really curious. He's really smart. His intuition is off the charts. I'll tell you a very specific example. Had a meeting with him, I had a complicated-" "What were you pitching him?" "It's not a pitch. I was just walking him through some structural issues in this specific case and electricity rates, and you know, the underlying reasons why, which have more to do with the utilities, data centers, water consumption, and then some structural decrease in Americans' electricity, right? It's like a 15-page deck, and he's one of these guys where he's listening, he'll scan it, he's scanning it while he listens to you, and then he goes right to the one thing. And I have a lot of respect for this because I've seen some of the most incredible survivors, the people that have that one skill. They can go in and go to that thing, that little detail, that thread and pull it. So my experience with him is quite impressive; when I anchor him to the other people I've been with, he's really up there."

Tony Jacob | FindaClip.com

191,816 views • 2 months ago

Chamath Explains What It's Like To Go On Joe Rogan's Podcast, And Why Kamala Should Do It His Advice: Ignore Your Campaign Strategists And Show The American People Who You Really Are. "Before you go on Joe Rogan, there's a sense of anxiety that I had, which was, 'Do I have enough interesting things to say for three hours?'" "That was really at the top of my mind." "And then you go and you get in the seat. And he's incredible in the way that he moves the conversation along." "And then you end up, you're like, 'Oh, it's already been three hours.'" "That's his superpower." "The reason that (Harris) should find a way to go to Austin and do it is because he has the ability to allow you to be your true self over a long period of time." "And I think, again, just going back to the basics, she deserves for herself, for the American people to vote up or down who she really is." "And all the campaign strategists aside, and all of the other nonsense aside, I would want, if I was running for president, one shot at people being able to see me for who I really am." "And that's why she should go on Rogan."
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Chamath Explains What It's Like To Go On Joe Rogan's Podcast, And Why Kamala Should Do It His Advice: Ignore Your Campaign Strategists And Show The American People Who You Really Are. "Before you go on Joe Rogan, there's a sense of anxiety that I had, which was, 'Do I have enough interesting things to say for three hours?'" "That was really at the top of my mind." "And then you go and you get in the seat. And he's incredible in the way that he moves the conversation along." "And then you end up, you're like, 'Oh, it's already been three hours.'" "That's his superpower." "The reason that (Harris) should find a way to go to Austin and do it is because he has the ability to allow you to be your true self over a long period of time." "And I think, again, just going back to the basics, she deserves for herself, for the American people to vote up or down who she really is." "And all the campaign strategists aside, and all of the other nonsense aside, I would want, if I was running for president, one shot at people being able to see me for who I really am." "And that's why she should go on Rogan."

The All-In Podcast

235,419 views • 1 year ago

One great person using AI can be as powerful as 100 people. Adam Foroughi, founder of Applovin, on why he’s not hiring even as his business expands: People are always saying to me: You have a huge opportunity. You're doing really well. Why aren't you hiring people? We have a big business opportunity in front of us right now. Most people look at that and go: Why aren't you hiring a sales force? Why aren't you hiring a CRO? Why aren't you hitting it hard? The reason I don't is that now with AI tools one person who's really good can be as powerful as 100 people. Why would I go hire in advance of that versus go find those single individuals who can be really good, who understand how to deploy agents to tackle jobs that many people would have done before? I've stuck to this view with high conviction because I've seen companies do exactly that, hire into opportunity, dilute their IQ, and then you're stuck with a mess. How do you unravel a mess? If you lose those A people there's no way to do it. You're just hosed.
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One great person using AI can be as powerful as 100 people. Adam Foroughi, founder of Applovin, on why he’s not hiring even as his business expands: People are always saying to me: You have a huge opportunity. You're doing really well. Why aren't you hiring people? We have a big business opportunity in front of us right now. Most people look at that and go: Why aren't you hiring a sales force? Why aren't you hiring a CRO? Why aren't you hitting it hard? The reason I don't is that now with AI tools one person who's really good can be as powerful as 100 people. Why would I go hire in advance of that versus go find those single individuals who can be really good, who understand how to deploy agents to tackle jobs that many people would have done before? I've stuck to this view with high conviction because I've seen companies do exactly that, hire into opportunity, dilute their IQ, and then you're stuck with a mess. How do you unravel a mess? If you lose those A people there's no way to do it. You're just hosed.

David Senra

33,270 views • 3 months ago

This is one of the most important parts of Tucker Carlson’s speech and it got overlooked American can’t afford to buy homes, Tucker says this is a National Emergency “At some point the basic economics really matter. And they matter because not that it's bad that rich people are getting richer, it's bad that everyone else is getting poorer. And it's especially bad the young people can't afford homes. Let me just put a very precise point on this. If you want a measure of how your economy is doing, I personally favor eliminating GDP as a measure. I don't even know what that is. It's clearly not relevant. — My measure is really simple. I got a bunch of kids. Can they afford houses with full time jobs at like 27, 28? And the answer is no way. And the answer is that 35 year olds with really good jobs can't afford a house unless they stretch and go deep into debt. And I just think that's a total disaster. That's a complete disaster. Why? Two reasons: - One, if people don't own things, they don't feel ownership of the country they're in. And the country gets super volatile because people feel like they've got nothing to lose. When you have a lawn, trust me, you're thinking long term. - Second, it's really hard to have a family without a house. It is. It's like super fun to live in an apartment. If you know there's like a bar downstairs, you're in a cool neighborhood. I'm in East Village. It's so cool. Try to have three kids. You're not going to have three kids there. You can. Nobody wants to raise their kids in that neighborhood. Nobody wants to raise their kids in an apartment. People do it. People, they have to. Nobody wants to. People want a little house. Not some McMansion, just a little normal house. That is the actual American dream. — But most people's parents can't afford to do that. — So that is a national emergency. One of the reasons it's happening is because normal people with normal jobs no longer believe they can win in this system and that all the money is going to the worst people, and no one even stops to ask what the hell is going on. What I'm saying is that our leadership class should say something about it and should assign a moral value to it. And if you're getting rich by loaning money to people at incredibly high interest rates, that's something you're gonna have to talk to God about. That is not good. That is not virtuous. That's disgusting” Nobody, and I mean NOBODY in power seems to care about this
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This is one of the most important parts of Tucker Carlson’s speech and it got overlooked American can’t afford to buy homes, Tucker says this is a National Emergency “At some point the basic economics really matter. And they matter because not that it's bad that rich people are getting richer, it's bad that everyone else is getting poorer. And it's especially bad the young people can't afford homes. Let me just put a very precise point on this. If you want a measure of how your economy is doing, I personally favor eliminating GDP as a measure. I don't even know what that is. It's clearly not relevant. — My measure is really simple. I got a bunch of kids. Can they afford houses with full time jobs at like 27, 28? And the answer is no way. And the answer is that 35 year olds with really good jobs can't afford a house unless they stretch and go deep into debt. And I just think that's a total disaster. That's a complete disaster. Why? Two reasons: - One, if people don't own things, they don't feel ownership of the country they're in. And the country gets super volatile because people feel like they've got nothing to lose. When you have a lawn, trust me, you're thinking long term. - Second, it's really hard to have a family without a house. It is. It's like super fun to live in an apartment. If you know there's like a bar downstairs, you're in a cool neighborhood. I'm in East Village. It's so cool. Try to have three kids. You're not going to have three kids there. You can. Nobody wants to raise their kids in that neighborhood. Nobody wants to raise their kids in an apartment. People do it. People, they have to. Nobody wants to. People want a little house. Not some McMansion, just a little normal house. That is the actual American dream. — But most people's parents can't afford to do that. — So that is a national emergency. One of the reasons it's happening is because normal people with normal jobs no longer believe they can win in this system and that all the money is going to the worst people, and no one even stops to ask what the hell is going on. What I'm saying is that our leadership class should say something about it and should assign a moral value to it. And if you're getting rich by loaning money to people at incredibly high interest rates, that's something you're gonna have to talk to God about. That is not good. That is not virtuous. That's disgusting” Nobody, and I mean NOBODY in power seems to care about this

Wall Street Apes

1,849,743 views • 1 year ago

Kenny Omega and Will Ospreay's feud "is a lot deeper than a WWE feud. WWE, you're used to very shallow. They tried to go a little deeper with Roman Reigns and Seth Rollins. AEW gears itself for people who are really really into it with the idea that if you challenge them they're going to be more into it. Some people say it's not simple enough or I don't wanna think this much and they're not wrong. It's good to have different types of wrestling and different types of appeal." - Dave Meltzer
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Kenny Omega and Will Ospreay's feud "is a lot deeper than a WWE feud. WWE, you're used to very shallow. They tried to go a little deeper with Roman Reigns and Seth Rollins. AEW gears itself for people who are really really into it with the idea that if you challenge them they're going to be more into it. Some people say it's not simple enough or I don't wanna think this much and they're not wrong. It's good to have different types of wrestling and different types of appeal." - Dave Meltzer

Wrestling Observer

164,397 views • 9 days ago

Brian still spends over two hours a day on recruiting and personally hires the top 200 people at Airbnb. I loved this idea of being in the flow of talent to find the best people: "Don't do searches. Build pipelines. I try to map out all the best people in the Valley. So let's say I need to hire really good engineers. I don't do searches. I just informationally meet the best engineers in the world. Every meeting, the job is to get the next meeting, meet someone else. The mistake people make when they hire. They go, "I need to hire a blank." So they hire a search firm. They give you 50 profiles, and you pick the best one. That is the wrong way to do it. The best way to do it is pipeline recruiting. You're constantly recruiting, you're constantly meeting people. in advance of searches. And all of it is referral based. The two ways to find out if people are good – is to start with the results and work backwards to the people. Find an ad you like and figure out who made that ad. Start with the results. Work backwards to people. Don't start with the resume. The other thing to do is just keep asking people to build your Rolodex. The moment I find somebody that's really good, I ask them who all the best people they know are. And I build these little mafias and they tell you who the other good people are. I am the co-hiring manager for the top 200 people in the company. This is very radical. A lot of CEOs think it's their job to hire their executive team, and their executive team hires their team. I think that is fatal. You always want to be marrying up, hiring people of the future. It should be like we're reaching. If you can hire them without my help, we're not reaching far enough. You want to hire the very best person you can."
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Brian still spends over two hours a day on recruiting and personally hires the top 200 people at Airbnb. I loved this idea of being in the flow of talent to find the best people: "Don't do searches. Build pipelines. I try to map out all the best people in the Valley. So let's say I need to hire really good engineers. I don't do searches. I just informationally meet the best engineers in the world. Every meeting, the job is to get the next meeting, meet someone else. The mistake people make when they hire. They go, "I need to hire a blank." So they hire a search firm. They give you 50 profiles, and you pick the best one. That is the wrong way to do it. The best way to do it is pipeline recruiting. You're constantly recruiting, you're constantly meeting people. in advance of searches. And all of it is referral based. The two ways to find out if people are good – is to start with the results and work backwards to the people. Find an ad you like and figure out who made that ad. Start with the results. Work backwards to people. Don't start with the resume. The other thing to do is just keep asking people to build your Rolodex. The moment I find somebody that's really good, I ask them who all the best people they know are. And I build these little mafias and they tell you who the other good people are. I am the co-hiring manager for the top 200 people in the company. This is very radical. A lot of CEOs think it's their job to hire their executive team, and their executive team hires their team. I think that is fatal. You always want to be marrying up, hiring people of the future. It should be like we're reaching. If you can hire them without my help, we're not reaching far enough. You want to hire the very best person you can."

Patrick OShaughnessy

317,217 views • 3 months ago

JUST IN: New footage of Elon Musk in SpaceX Starbase, Louisiana introducing video. Elon Musk "If you want to go out there and make life multiplanetary, and not just be a tourist—send a few people and come back—and if you want to go there and actually build a self-growing civilization, you need serious tonnage. We are going to bring, I think, probably north of 10,000 really exciting jobs to Louisiana. They are the kind of jobs that are so exciting, you cannot wait to go to work in the morning. It is super inspiring, and we believe in having a really fun work environment. It is hard to beat rockets, frankly. I think it has been incredibly exciting for the people of Louisiana. We will make it so the public can come and see, like they do at Cape Canaveral. People will go see Disney World, but then they will go over to Cape Canaveral to watch the rocket launch."
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JUST IN: New footage of Elon Musk in SpaceX Starbase, Louisiana introducing video. Elon Musk "If you want to go out there and make life multiplanetary, and not just be a tourist—send a few people and come back—and if you want to go there and actually build a self-growing civilization, you need serious tonnage. We are going to bring, I think, probably north of 10,000 really exciting jobs to Louisiana. They are the kind of jobs that are so exciting, you cannot wait to go to work in the morning. It is super inspiring, and we believe in having a really fun work environment. It is hard to beat rockets, frankly. I think it has been incredibly exciting for the people of Louisiana. We will make it so the public can come and see, like they do at Cape Canaveral. People will go see Disney World, but then they will go over to Cape Canaveral to watch the rocket launch."

Doge Tipping

29,764 views • 6 days ago

Lina Khan: "The holy grail for companies for a long time has been the ability to charge each person what their willingness to pay is. If you're really hungry for lunch, maybe they'll charge you 10 bucks for a burger, but if you're not that hungry, maybe they'll charge you three bucks... Now there's so much data collected about individual people that there is a serious worry that companies will be able to do this. And actually Delta Airlines just announced on their earnings call that they're gonna start using some of these algorithms to price some of their tickets. And so imagine a world in which you have the death in the family. You have to go home for a funeral. And they know that through scraping your email that is announcing when the service is gonna be, they know you're in a tight spot. So you're gonna be charged much more because of that." Watch the full Lina Khan Episode of Lemonade Stand here:
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Lina Khan: "The holy grail for companies for a long time has been the ability to charge each person what their willingness to pay is. If you're really hungry for lunch, maybe they'll charge you 10 bucks for a burger, but if you're not that hungry, maybe they'll charge you three bucks... Now there's so much data collected about individual people that there is a serious worry that companies will be able to do this. And actually Delta Airlines just announced on their earnings call that they're gonna start using some of these algorithms to price some of their tickets. And so imagine a world in which you have the death in the family. You have to go home for a funeral. And they know that through scraping your email that is announcing when the service is gonna be, they know you're in a tight spot. So you're gonna be charged much more because of that." Watch the full Lina Khan Episode of Lemonade Stand here:

More Perfect Union

171,665 views • 1 year ago

Alexandr Wang: “Hire people who give a shit” The ScaleAI founder is asked for the best advice he has for founders, to which he responds: “The biggest thing is you have to really, really care.” Alex explains this is also the number one trait he looks for in people he hires: “When you interview and interact with people, you can tell who phones it in and whose work is so incredibly important to them that it eats at them if they don’t do great work. One of the greatest indicators of how much I enjoyed working with people and how successful they were at Scale was just the degree to which their soul is invested in the work they do.” It’s important that the CEO lives this principle too. “I still review every hire at the company,” Alex says. “I care immensely. I work with all these people who care immensely. And that lets us feel much more deeply what happens in the business, so we learn more quickly and adapt more quickly, and I think that’s been quite important to the success that we’ve had.” One of Scale AI’s values is that “quality is fractal.” “High standards trickle down within an organization,” Alex explains. “Most of the time when people realize their manager or their manager’s manager doesn’t really care, that removes the desire for them to care. So it’s incredibly important that high standards and care for quality is a deeply embedded tenet of the entire organization.” Video source: Y Combinator (2025)
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Alexandr Wang: “Hire people who give a shit” The ScaleAI founder is asked for the best advice he has for founders, to which he responds: “The biggest thing is you have to really, really care.” Alex explains this is also the number one trait he looks for in people he hires: “When you interview and interact with people, you can tell who phones it in and whose work is so incredibly important to them that it eats at them if they don’t do great work. One of the greatest indicators of how much I enjoyed working with people and how successful they were at Scale was just the degree to which their soul is invested in the work they do.” It’s important that the CEO lives this principle too. “I still review every hire at the company,” Alex says. “I care immensely. I work with all these people who care immensely. And that lets us feel much more deeply what happens in the business, so we learn more quickly and adapt more quickly, and I think that’s been quite important to the success that we’ve had.” One of Scale AI’s values is that “quality is fractal.” “High standards trickle down within an organization,” Alex explains. “Most of the time when people realize their manager or their manager’s manager doesn’t really care, that removes the desire for them to care. So it’s incredibly important that high standards and care for quality is a deeply embedded tenet of the entire organization.” Video source: Y Combinator (2025)

Startup Archive

45,215 views • 8 months ago

Aaron Levie on why AI agents can't just be treated like normal user accounts: "I, as Aaron, don't really have any responsibility over anybody else's Box account in our organization. I can't see the Box account of any other employee that I work with. I'm not liable for anything that they do." "Agents don't have those properties. The person who creates the agent probably is going to, for the foreseeable future, take on a lot of the liability for what that agent does." "When you're in Claude Code or Cursor, the agent is you... It can do everything you can do." "That's the easy mode." "The hard mode is agents are running on their own and people check in with them occasionally." "How do you give them access to resources in the enterprise without dramatically increasing the security risk?" Aaron Levie on Latent.Space
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Aaron Levie on why AI agents can't just be treated like normal user accounts: "I, as Aaron, don't really have any responsibility over anybody else's Box account in our organization. I can't see the Box account of any other employee that I work with. I'm not liable for anything that they do." "Agents don't have those properties. The person who creates the agent probably is going to, for the foreseeable future, take on a lot of the liability for what that agent does." "When you're in Claude Code or Cursor, the agent is you... It can do everything you can do." "That's the easy mode." "The hard mode is agents are running on their own and people check in with them occasionally." "How do you give them access to resources in the enterprise without dramatically increasing the security risk?" Aaron Levie on Latent.Space

a16z

40,579 views • 5 months ago