Rory O'Driscoll
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Podcast Appearances
It's a reminder in today's age of extreme greed to be kind.
He didn't just, wasn't just nice to him.
He accelerated all of his stock and made sure that it wasn't about money.
He was appreciated.
He walked him out the door.
I don't see this happening often enough.
I've seen two CEOs at the end of this year just quit their startups that I invested in.
Be kinder.
Go the extra yard like Peter did with Elon.
It just may pay off like owning 10% of a $1.5 trillion IPO.
Even for a billionaire, it might pay off.
I'm going to take Figma only because I don't believe Cursor's future is assured.
I think a cursor is magical.
I think it's a gift to humanity for folks that have built software.
If we keep doing this podcast long enough, we're going to see I'm right about something else, which is everything's much less stable than we thought this year.
The categories, the Harvey's, the cursors, these are incredible companies.
I wish I invested all of them.
Don't get me wrong.
We're going to look back in 24 months and see there was a lot less stability in these so-called leaders than we thought.
It's not that they were going to go to zero, but we are so early in AI that I'm going to take Figma on this one.