
@davidsenra
Conversations with the greatest living founders.
What did you learn from Rupert Murdoch? “I was there when Rupert was at risk of losing everything. He had over-leveraged the company. And what I found remarkable was he was cool the whole time. He just wasn't ruffled. He was at risk of losing his whole business and it
.@EricJorgenson on why Steve Jobs and @elonmusk are more similar than people realize: "I think Elon is underrated in his design sense. There's a lot of times when you hear Elon quotes that sound exactly like Steve Jobs would've said. He thinks about it like an algorithm.
"Capitalism created the possibility of the win win win. It used to be a zero sum game where somebody won, somebody else lost. It's a prosperity machine that's creating more, not just for those billionaires, but for everything that they're touching. Somebody like Elon Musk gets
.@tobi says the best founders don’t hire people for well-roundedness. They hire for spikes: He says the most important question in Shopify’s hiring process is simply: “Give us your story.” “We never look at credentials. I'm a high school dropout.” “ What we're looking for is
Take-Two had a chairman under indictment, 6 months of cash, and one unfinished game. Strauss Zelnick took over and immediately cut $40 million in costs: "The first thing we look at is third-party expenses. Every company has deals with third parties. We do a top 10 vendor survey. x.com/davidsenra/sta…
"My way of dealing with mental problems is to make sure you really care about what you're doing and take the pain." — @elonmusk “I think it's so funny that the most productive person on earth does zero meditation or journaling and doesn’t optimize his morning routine. He
Larry Ellison defending @elonmusk to a reporter who said he was an idiot: Reporter: "Elon doesn't know what he's doing. He's going to have to go out for money. I'm really smart. I work for The Wall Street Journal." Larry: "Who are you? He's landing rockets on robot drone rafts
Extreme performance often comes from one brutally clear priority: “The mission of Take-Two is to be the number one entertainment company on Earth. That's a bold idea, but everyone understands it. There are 14,000 people at Take-Two. There's not one person who can't tell you our x.com/davidsenra/sta…
"When filmmakers, industrial designers, software designers, or people in any other creative profession merely cut up and reassemble what has come before, it gives the illusion of creativity, but it is craft without art." — Ed Catmull, co-founder of Pixar Strauss Zelnick on why x.com/davidsenra/sta…