David Hornik

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392 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 25 Feb

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When I asked him, so why'd you fund Microsoft?

He said, well, Bill Gates was like a 19 year old.

But when I asked him about everybody else's business, he was smarter on their business than they were.

He knew, you know, I was looking at all these companies.

I'd say, what do you think of this company?

And say, well, if they did this and this and this, they'd be successful, but they're not doing that because they're idiots.

So clearly, and I think people viewed Gates as having more IQ than EQ, right?

But like Twitter, like the founders of Twitter, they were perfectly smart, but I don't think that was an IQ thing.

I'm not sure it was an EQ thing either.

Sometimes you find the zeitgeist and you get to ride the wave, right?

Dylan Field, who I'm a huge fan of, I think is an amazing young guy, you know,

created Figma has had this astonishing outcome.

And Dylan came to a class I taught and he was chatting about it.

And there was a near implosion of the company because his engineers were so mad at him at one point.

because he had not exercised sufficient EQ to understand what would motivate them and keep them engaged.

And his board member, John Lilly, had to sort of come in and say like, hey, you know, here's some EQ to rent.

I'm going to help you work through this, right?

I do that all the time with my companies.

I spend a lot of time.

I literally just had lunch with an astonishing founder, but he is working his team hard.

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