Shyam Sankar
👤 PersonAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Are you optimizing the outcome? Because if you care about the outcome, that's easy to get over. It's like, yeah, you're right. So it's ego. It's all ego. What a shame, man. I think the results will speak for themselves. And I've seen this so many times. Once the bureaucracy gets out the way, you can often solve these problems inside of 30 days.
Are you optimizing the outcome? Because if you care about the outcome, that's easy to get over. It's like, yeah, you're right. So it's ego. It's all ego. What a shame, man. I think the results will speak for themselves. And I've seen this so many times. Once the bureaucracy gets out the way, you can often solve these problems inside of 30 days.
So, and I think that's the, I know those guys, that's what they're focused on every day, which is just delivering results, keeping their head down, delivering results. And, you know, I think it's, they're a national treasure.
So, and I think that's the, I know those guys, that's what they're focused on every day, which is just delivering results, keeping their head down, delivering results. And, you know, I think it's, they're a national treasure.
So, and I think that's the, I know those guys, that's what they're focused on every day, which is just delivering results, keeping their head down, delivering results. And, you know, I think it's, they're a national treasure.
From a technical perspective, we could have done it 30 years ago. I think from a political will perspective, it took President Trump's political will and the mandate that he got with the election in order to make it happen. And you still see the amount of pushback that there is.
From a technical perspective, we could have done it 30 years ago. I think from a political will perspective, it took President Trump's political will and the mandate that he got with the election in order to make it happen. And you still see the amount of pushback that there is.
From a technical perspective, we could have done it 30 years ago. I think from a political will perspective, it took President Trump's political will and the mandate that he got with the election in order to make it happen. And you still see the amount of pushback that there is.
And to tie it back to founder mode, my own support for President Trump is when I had a three-hour dinner with him in presence of a few other folks, and what I felt profoundly was a founder personality.
And to tie it back to founder mode, my own support for President Trump is when I had a three-hour dinner with him in presence of a few other folks, and what I felt profoundly was a founder personality.
And to tie it back to founder mode, my own support for President Trump is when I had a three-hour dinner with him in presence of a few other folks, and what I felt profoundly was a founder personality.
This is a person who was going to throw away the manager playbook, who actually had an intuitive understanding of the things that were broken and what to do about them, was going to make contrarian calls and actually cares about the outcome.
This is a person who was going to throw away the manager playbook, who actually had an intuitive understanding of the things that were broken and what to do about them, was going to make contrarian calls and actually cares about the outcome.
This is a person who was going to throw away the manager playbook, who actually had an intuitive understanding of the things that were broken and what to do about them, was going to make contrarian calls and actually cares about the outcome.
I'm not. I think there will be some volatility. I've been looking at the markets, kind of thinking about how much of this is the market reacting to the playbook. It's like prophylaxis. Before the pain is even felt, they're like, but we take as an axiomatic given from our economic theory that this is a bad thing, versus empirically, it's already resulted in badness.
I'm not. I think there will be some volatility. I've been looking at the markets, kind of thinking about how much of this is the market reacting to the playbook. It's like prophylaxis. Before the pain is even felt, they're like, but we take as an axiomatic given from our economic theory that this is a bad thing, versus empirically, it's already resulted in badness.
I'm not. I think there will be some volatility. I've been looking at the markets, kind of thinking about how much of this is the market reacting to the playbook. It's like prophylaxis. Before the pain is even felt, they're like, but we take as an axiomatic given from our economic theory that this is a bad thing, versus empirically, it's already resulted in badness.
I think there's going to be some chop between here and there. But the ultimate thing about the founder playbook, it's not that founders are always right, but it's that they are first intuitionally driven, and then often can only fully explain their intuition over time. And so you have to decide, is the rebuttable presumption going to be we're going to lean in and try what the founder is saying?
I think there's going to be some chop between here and there. But the ultimate thing about the founder playbook, it's not that founders are always right, but it's that they are first intuitionally driven, and then often can only fully explain their intuition over time. And so you have to decide, is the rebuttable presumption going to be we're going to lean in and try what the founder is saying?
I think there's going to be some chop between here and there. But the ultimate thing about the founder playbook, it's not that founders are always right, but it's that they are first intuitionally driven, and then often can only fully explain their intuition over time. And so you have to decide, is the rebuttable presumption going to be we're going to lean in and try what the founder is saying?