Kaz Nejatian

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603 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 23 Jan

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The Pomp Podcast · Opendoor CEO: Housing Is Broken (Here’s the Fix) | Kaz Nejatian · 23 Jan 2026 podcast

Actually, you know the crazy things I learned?

I have to pay for benefits.

So I actually pay open door money to work there, which I think is actually deeply appropriate.

But I pay a dollar unless I create value for shareholders.

And if I create value for shareholders, then I get paid.

And it's a generous package, but it's worth $0.

Well, $1 if I don't create value.

Do you think every public company CEO should do this?

100%, yes.

It is... We have far... Actually, let me be more clear.

For companies where the job of the CEO is important and not a pure manager.

If you're a pure manager, and I'm not knocking pure managers, there are companies where...

systems are in place a ham sandwich could run the company right that's famous like those companies should have good management packages some of the companies do have ham sandwiches yeah yeah but if a company if a job is to create something that doesn't exist then you want people who are optimized for that creation working right rather than time spent i think that generally it's like a

Companies where executives can have private cars and like nice houses and private shafts and all these perks without creating any shareholder value are just so bad for capitalism.

And capitalism is important.

Like it's genuinely important.

Look, Rockefeller never drew a salary.

I don't think Carnegie did either.

Actually, I know JP Morgan didn't.

They got paid as shareholders and they created some of the most enduring companies in the history of the world.

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