Eric Jorgenson

On average, I would love to know what the average tenure is.

I get nine months out of people, but I get nine months of 100 hours a week or something like that, let's say.

You go, okay, well, that is just the cost of doing business.

In order to push people at the pace that I want to, I need to have a bigger staff base in order to do that.

Have you got any idea about how he hires, about what his hiring process is like?

He must have just the most insane HR department that is constantly trying to put out fires.

Yeah.

People, yeah, permanently people just, like, fucking exiting the business because I can't, like... It's like Leonardo DiCaprio dating someone who's 25.

And you're like, fucking the day that she... Yeah, exactly.

Like, what?

26, you're out.

Like, you know?

The most common mistake of smart engineers is to optimize something that should not exist.

Oh, this is a stupid question.

I don't want to answer it.

If you don't eat the glass, you're not going to be successful.

Yeah, yeah.

I think...

It is a sad lesson for people who are on the outside of business that like the idea of running a business, that at some point all of the problems will go away, but you are the person in charge of the problems.

Your job is to find the biggest problem and to always be at the vanguard of trying to fix that problem.