Max Levchin

Like we need a better analysis of what down or I don't actually think these are accurate. And this is where you need your A players in the room because they will have the experience and the intuition and sort of past knowledge of how these things go to kind of say that that's a deep enough postmortem or this is just like you describe what happened, but he didn't explain it.

Like we need a better analysis of what down or I don't actually think these are accurate. And this is where you need your A players in the room because they will have the experience and the intuition and sort of past knowledge of how these things go to kind of say that that's a deep enough postmortem or this is just like you describe what happened, but he didn't explain it.

Like we need a better analysis of what down or I don't actually think these are accurate. And this is where you need your A players in the room because they will have the experience and the intuition and sort of past knowledge of how these things go to kind of say that that's a deep enough postmortem or this is just like you describe what happened, but he didn't explain it.

These days, the ones that I see are very matter of fact. It is never about the individual. It's always about the events. Always come down to a, this happened, this choice was made either by a program or a human. And if it's a program, it's a bug or a poorly calculated outcome. If it's a human, it can be a judgment error. Like I thought I would flip the switch and the lights would go on.

These days, the ones that I see are very matter of fact. It is never about the individual. It's always about the events. Always come down to a, this happened, this choice was made either by a program or a human. And if it's a program, it's a bug or a poorly calculated outcome. If it's a human, it can be a judgment error. Like I thought I would flip the switch and the lights would go on.

These days, the ones that I see are very matter of fact. It is never about the individual. It's always about the events. Always come down to a, this happened, this choice was made either by a program or a human. And if it's a program, it's a bug or a poorly calculated outcome. If it's a human, it can be a judgment error. Like I thought I would flip the switch and the lights would go on.

It turned out to disable power for the entire city. That's a conversation we've had here, but it's never controversial. It's in the past. We need to do better. What do you do? Like you add a big guard on the switch that says, before you're going to turn off the lights for the entire city, please read this to a light warning.

It turned out to disable power for the entire city. That's a conversation we've had here, but it's never controversial. It's in the past. We need to do better. What do you do? Like you add a big guard on the switch that says, before you're going to turn off the lights for the entire city, please read this to a light warning.

It turned out to disable power for the entire city. That's a conversation we've had here, but it's never controversial. It's in the past. We need to do better. What do you do? Like you add a big guard on the switch that says, before you're going to turn off the lights for the entire city, please read this to a light warning.

I don't agree. Things that change your reputation, things that change relationships with partners, decisions that do that sort of thing are basically irreversible.

I don't agree. Things that change your reputation, things that change relationships with partners, decisions that do that sort of thing are basically irreversible.

I don't agree. Things that change your reputation, things that change relationships with partners, decisions that do that sort of thing are basically irreversible.

There are probably some people who would disagree with you on that topic. I don't know exactly who they are, but I think we can guess. But I agree that superficial statements, even explosive or incendiary, even fall off the news line faster than you would expect them to. I think people's reputations recover and get managed and manipulated. And maybe it's true for companies, too.

There are probably some people who would disagree with you on that topic. I don't know exactly who they are, but I think we can guess. But I agree that superficial statements, even explosive or incendiary, even fall off the news line faster than you would expect them to. I think people's reputations recover and get managed and manipulated. And maybe it's true for companies, too.

There are probably some people who would disagree with you on that topic. I don't know exactly who they are, but I think we can guess. But I agree that superficial statements, even explosive or incendiary, even fall off the news line faster than you would expect them to. I think people's reputations recover and get managed and manipulated. And maybe it's true for companies, too.

But I think rational people have long memories and do not forget, are not easily persuaded by Spotify top 10 or whatever is the front page of The Wall Street Journal today. The decisions that probably I care about a lot more

But I think rational people have long memories and do not forget, are not easily persuaded by Spotify top 10 or whatever is the front page of The Wall Street Journal today. The decisions that probably I care about a lot more

But I think rational people have long memories and do not forget, are not easily persuaded by Spotify top 10 or whatever is the front page of The Wall Street Journal today. The decisions that probably I care about a lot more

are architectural decisions you can decide to invest a year into rebuilding your systems in some new fashion and if that's a bad decision you're going to look back and say well we're too far in it was a terrible call but you know it's just you know it's so far and like we can't just uproot this so many people will be upset or you agree to a deal that is economically non-viable and you have you're staring at a giant black hole and you want to get out of it but you signed a contract and

are architectural decisions you can decide to invest a year into rebuilding your systems in some new fashion and if that's a bad decision you're going to look back and say well we're too far in it was a terrible call but you know it's just you know it's so far and like we can't just uproot this so many people will be upset or you agree to a deal that is economically non-viable and you have you're staring at a giant black hole and you want to get out of it but you signed a contract and