Anatoly Yakovenko, @Solana co-founder: everyone in the world will pay with digital USD "Everyone in the world is going to pay with dollars and there's enormous demand for digital dollars globally. So I think you're going to see global adoption for dollar rails to go from just kind of back end merchant to merchant to retail." "For America, it's critical because we need people to buy treasuries, the way that the Genius Act is written is a stable coin is backed by US treasuries. And the kind of businesses that you can build on top of crypto are new fintech." "So instead of interfacing with banks or these kind of old school, slow settlement systems, you can now build something that you have guaranteed sub one penny fees for financial transactions and instant settlement everywhere in the world." @toly interviewed by @furrier for @theCUBE

Silicon Valley 20 year old Founder success stories are not uncommon these days. "There's a curious movement around age, as in founders are getting younger. When Steve Jobs founded Apple and Bill Gates founded Microsoft, they were 19. And then you kind of fast forward... and then you had Zuck. But it wasn't quite like this right before AI. It was never like this before. I mean, it's in this paradigm shift, who cares if you know how to build a SaaS product or sell a SaaS product or hire a traditional enterprise go-to-market team. You're seeing very large companies built by people under the age of 25 or 30 at an unprecedented rate. And for us in practice, that means more and more of our founders are skewing younger and younger." -@kevinhartz & @BennettSiegel on Uncapped With @jaltma

The CEO is not the person opening doors for your career. Prosperous relationships occur from finding individuals at companies that you want to work with that are equally trying to grow. "Everyone always thinks you have to meet with Jeff Bezos or whatever... Find the person who needs to make it. There's a person who's newer in their career who, if they could figure out how to make something really work, will make their career. Find that person in any place... and grow with them and take a long approach at this." — Founder of @ring , @JamieSiminoff on Habits & Hustle Podcast

We're asking the wrong questions during interviews. World renowned journalist, Malcolm Gladwell noted that maybe the right way to find someones strengths isn't by asking them what challenges they have overcome, but instead what do they find really easy. "My dad loved to take really, really long walks. And it didn't matter how cold it was. We knew, and I would go with him in the Canadian winters, it would be 20 below, we would go for like a two-hour walk. So if you asked me at 11, what makes you happy? I would say going for a walk with my dad. And if you dug into it, you would realize, actually, it was a pretty demanding thing you guys did. And it's interesting it didn't even occur to you to call that hard." -@Gladwell on @bigdeal_podca

Venture capital has changed... Drastically "Now, here's the problem. If you were one of those venture capital firms that started all those years ago, you were likely set up, as I said, as a partnership with shared economics and shared control. If you have shared control, it's very hard to reorganize. To reorganize, you need a single decision maker. There is no way to reorganize if everybody gets a vote. It's going to be bad. So as a result, we've been able to scale because we have centralized control. But most of our competitors have not been able to scale. Very few have. And so I think what we have now is large firms who can cover all the technological areas and then specialized firms that are, okay, I'm a specialist in AI infrastructure, I'm a specialist in bio, or I'm a specialist in crypto, or I'm a specialist in games, but I'm not doing all of that. And the kind of firms in the middle, I think, are getting squeezed out." - @a16z Co-Founder, @bhorowitz on A16z Show

Everyone can be a CEO if they act like it. Founder of Ring, Jamie Siminoff shared his leadership method for running a billion dollar business and how each department head acts like their very own CEO. "I drive a lot of the product and invention side of things. But I've never been like the day to day trying to run the company. I've never had a set meeting with my direct team ever. We have people that run their areas. They're all like CEOs." - @JamieSiminoff on Habits and Hustles Podcast

🤔 How do we prevent the Chinese from stealing US innovations? "Stop patenting everything. Patents are Chinese instruction manuals. The Founding Fathers never predicted a world where you would have a globalized economy where the entire patent office could be downloaded every single morning and then ripped off and then used to fight a war against you. The problem that we have right now is that Western companies patent things so that they can trade temporary exclusivity on an idea in exchange for eventually it enters the public domain. And all that really means in practice is that for 20 years or so between when you file for a patent and when somebody could launch a product that is a ripoff, it means China could just rip it off right away. And Western companies can only rip it off after 20 years. And then you repeat this cycle over and over again for every single generation. And it's killing us." –  @PalmerLuckey at the @HooverInst with @p_m_robinson

Cerebras just had a massive IPO and currently sits as the only AI full play on the market. Cerebras CEO, Andrew Feldman describes why going public now was the right decision. "Suddenly we go from pros to my dad. That's sort of the trade-off. I think for the rest of the world, if you want super high valuations, if you want the legitimacy that comes with it, historically large companies like doing business with other public companies in the US. And you get a credibility and a legitimacy from having your books audited, from them being able to see who you are, that is different than when you're private." -@cerebras CEO, @andrewdfeldman on @NoPriorsPod

Jensen Huang, Co-founder of NVIDIA, recalls in vivid detail how the three founding members of the company gave the company legs - from learning the basics of incorporation, to hiring their first lawyer, to keeping a supply of breakfast donuts

Elon’s best friend explains how Elon is able to manage 7 companies at the same time: @Tesla, @SpaceX, @boringcompany, @X , @xai, @neuralink, and the @MuskFoundation. TrueCar CEO and @elonmusk’s Bestie @TheScottPainter on the 10xPod with @davidwnyc

🇨🇳 Palmer Luckey on whether China can produce someone like him: "The interesting thing is I've been able to get to where I am largely because I've become interested in a lot of things and I'm good enough at a lot of things that I can draw connections between different fields in a way that people who are native to those fields might not. The Chinese system doesn't produce people like that. It's a bit like Germany in that early, pretty early in your education, you get tracked off into the gifted kids or the middle kids or the other kids. And then they put you into tracks that are pretty well set. And it's very, very difficult to have a mid-career shift. It's very hard to reinvent yourself in modern China... You don't have the guy here who is doing Hollywood films one day and then he does VFX and then he does a robotics company and then he burns out for a while and he draws paintings on Venice Beach and then he gets back into it and raises a billion dollars. That's not a real thing in China." — @PalmerLuckey at the @HooverInst with Peter Robinson

Speed to market is important for the ability to transform to market expectations. "Netflix used to deliver DVDs and envelopes and they thought their competition was blockbuster. When the internet got fast, they became a movie studio. They didn't get better incrementally and more efficient to delivering DVDs. It opened up an entirely new business, something fundamentally different." - @cerebras CEO, @andrewdfeldman on @NoPriorsPod

"If they've got money on it, they're much more likely to want to watch the games." Here's why sports leagues suddenly embraced g***ling. @mckaycoppins on the Plain English Podcast with @DKThomp

🇺🇸 Palmer Luckey on why US venture capital beats China's centrally planned model: "I was a 19 year old kid working a minimum wage job with no college degree, living in a 19 foot camper trailer. And Peter Thiel gave me a million dollars when nobody else would to start Oculus... That's not happening in China. I prefer the US capital markets where money can flow sometimes in bizarre ways, but it flows towards the things that have a chance of making a difference." — @PalmerLuckey with @p_m_robinson at the @HooverInst

The story of Ring and Jamie Siminoff is one of the best examples of waiting for the right moment. Jamie was able to sell Ring for $1.2 billion to Amazon, but first he had to turn down an offer from Shark Tank. "Kevin O'Leary gives me this offer, which was it just going to bankrupt the business. It was like royalties and all this stuff. Like we needed to build something bigger." - @ring Founder, @JamieSiminoff on @The_RoomPodcast

Euro founder after raising €15k in a Series A and securing a 4-figure contract with SAP