795 memorable quotes from Lenny's Podcast guests
“The tools are extensions of us. That's why our office room named as timeless tools. They extend us a little bit.”
“I wish more people look beyond tech to steal good ideas.”
“If you are not clear on what it is you are trying to do, A, and B, if you are not willing to tolerate failure, then you're just checking the boxes of someone else's expectations.”
“We want our customers to love us fanatically.”
“We're in the business of fundamentally different, not incrementally better.”
“No strategy framework is right, but having one is better than none.”
“The best idea wins, not the most senior idea.”
“If you use three models that have different dimensions and come to the same conclusion, it increases your chances that you're right.”
“We come up with an idea, we believe in it, all the indications show it's good.”
“Strive to be the best I can at what I do.”
“Fail fast is a very famous paradigm and so you had to kill your project or pivot it seriously if it didn't work out.”
“We brought in a special type of people. We had very diverse backgrounds. A lot of us were former founders.”
“If I drill down what makes companies fail, it's quite simple. It's just like they don't talk to users, which means they don't find product market fit.”
“YC Slack headline is make things people want, and it's still true and it's always going to be true.”
“It's very important to do a core job really well at any company, but it's equally important to have curiosity and be open to serendipity.”
“You got to prioritize this stuff. I mean you got to be careful it doesn't take up your life, but I think it's very important to be curious and open to serendipity.”
“If your identity is X, Y, Z, worker drone at A, B, C company, that's not enough. You've got to be X, Y, Z expert in A.”
“Evals is a way to systematically measure and improve an AI application.”
“I find myself sometimes just encountering arguments on the internet, like this race to eval debates and really think, 'Okay, put myself in their shoes.'”
“The goal is not to do evals perfectly, it's to actionably improve your product.”
