Ben Horowitz

You want it to be that way.

We're going this way.

If you don't like it, get the fuck out.

Like that's how you have to run an organization in order for it to succeed.

And I think people are, you know, we culturally got away from that idea in Silicon Valley a little bit, you know, in the end of the fat, happy network effect era, but like it's back now.

So could you say more?

What do you mean by that?

Well, you know, everybody wanted, like, a vote on what the company's values were and this and that.

And, you know, and then, like, CEOs caved to that, and that ended up not working well for any of those.

Right, right.

Yeah, well, I think a dictatorship always beats a democracy in a competitive battle.

And so, because it takes a long time to decide things in a democracy.

Now, look, for a country, it's different.

Yeah.

You know, there are things when you have to last several hundred years that, you know, when no matter how good the monarch is, if they die and a worse monarch comes into play, that could be an issue.

Well, it is longer term, but so like if you have a king, let's say you had a king running the United States.

If it's a great king who was not interested in their own like enrichment or their family or their friends and so forth,

That works like— Who cared about the public benefit, basically.

Who cares about the public benefit, I think, you know, that works better than our current system.

The problem with it is as soon as you get somebody who's not like that, that's just too much power.