Sam Altman & Elon Musk ·OpenAI ·18 FEB 2023

When a former ally attacks you in public, don't defend — pivot to asking what they'd do instead.

Tony Xu ·DoorDash ·11 FEB 2025

Profit and growth aren't opposites when capital follows evidence, not enthusiasm.

Tony Xu ·DoorDash ·18 FEB 2026

The product your customer sees is rarely the product that decides whether you win.

Elon Musk & Andrej Karpathy ·OpenAI ·1 FEB 2018

Open research without a profit engine isn't idealism — it's free R&D for whoever has the bigger bank account.

Elon Musk & Ilya Sutskever ·OpenAI ·20 SEP 2017

The moment your funder's leverage looks like a path to absolute control, your co-founders stop building and start negotiating their exit.

Ilya Sutskever ·OpenAI ·12 JUL 2017

If the bottleneck is hardware, the winner is whoever buys the most of it first.

Greg Brockman ·OpenAI ·31 JAN 2018

When you can't outspend competitors, out-trust them — moral high ground is a strategic asset, not a slogan.