Nikesh Arora
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2,918 appearances
12 recordings
8 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 6 Aug
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coupled with euphoria on the other side.
And I think the risk is that we think every company that's going to show up now is going to be the next Anthropic, so we better get into it.
I got a very interesting insight from one of my board members.
We're prolific buyers of companies because I'm constantly paranoid that we haven't built it, somebody else is going to build it, so we better go acquire it and find the team to go get it done.
And there's one particular acquisition, it took a lot of effort to get the founders to the table, get them to agree, grind through diligence, figure out whether it's going to work or not.
It was a substantive amount of money, relatively speaking, hundreds of millions of dollars, close to almost a billion dollars.
And I called one of my board members and I said, hey, what do you think about this?
See, you're calling me.
You don't call me all the time about all the acquisitions you do.
So this one must be different.
I said, no, it's not different.
I'm just thinking hard about it.
It's taken a lot of effort.
He says, go for a long walk.
Ignore all the effort you put in.
He said, because sometimes what happens is you confuse effort with wanting to get the outcome.
Because I spent a lot of time and effort trying to get it.
Then you feel like when you get it, you better take it because you put all the effort in.
And he says, you haven't spent a dollar yet.
You just put in three months of effort.
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