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Martin Shkreli
Co-founder; formerly CEO, Turing Pharmaceuticals, Godel Terminal

My Gen-Z Intern Thinks Showing Up To Work Is Optional

📅 Oct 09, 2026 Martin Shkreli 21 MIN 26624 VIEWS 246 SEGMENTS · 2 SPEAKERS
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What Martin Shkreli said

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Martin Shkreli called his Gen-Z intern Keith, who skipped work because he 'wasn't in the mood.' Shkreli told Keith he must come to work daily, unlike other employees who lack that luxury, and appreciated that Keith closed his positions before taking the day off. Shkreli reflected on training young talent, comparing Keith to a young Kanye or Buffett, and noted Keith sold his STX position while Shkreli held it, taking a loss. He discussed Temple OS merch, a civil war over who could sell it on templeos.org, and a story where selling it during stimulus checks got him a date. Shkreli debated with co-panelists about mental health days, saying he's entitled to know why Keith didn't show up, but acknowledged he could hear 'it's none of your business.' He also discussed his biotech pick Nintendar, which dropped from 30% to 15% of his portfolio.

Key takeaways

  1. Shkreli sold Keith's intel without asking, and Keith closed all positions before taking the day off.
  2. Shkreli held his STX position while Keith sold, taking a loss, and called Keith's move 'out of pocket.'
  3. Shkreli's biotech pick Nintendar dropped from 30% to 15% of his portfolio, and he was tempted to buy more.

Numbers and commitments

FigureWhat it refers toTypeAt
30% Nintendar's share of Shkreli's portfolio before drop metric 20:49
15% Nintendar's share of Shkreli's portfolio after drop metric 20:58
$100 Price of Temple OS merch Shkreli sold price 7:42
10 hoodies Number of Pepe shirts sold before shutdown metric 7:42
18,000 jobs US jobs added in month Shkreli graduated metric 16:45
$16 an hour Shkreli's first job wage after graduation price 16:45
$90 Initial price of Temple OS merch in 4chan ad price 19:26

Chapters

  1. 0:00Calling Keith about skipping work
  2. 3:21Training the youth and potential legends
  3. 4:30Keith's loss and STX position
  4. 7:01Temple OS merch and community war
  5. 11:30Debate on mental health days
  6. 13:53Reflections on early career and young workers
  7. 17:40Watches and Keith's lifestyle
  8. 20:49Nintendar portfolio loss

Questions asked in this interview

12
  1. 5:49Where were you guys? Where were you?
  2. 6:14>> Who the [__] is King Louie?
  3. 6:48>> Have you heard him laugh?
  4. 9:38>> There's not much you can do about that, right?
  5. 9:48>> Well, do you think your vibes aren't right with him?
  6. 10:19>> What if he's like, you know, he's a little bit ashamed, you know?
  7. 11:30Don't zoomers have these like mental health days where they just don't feel like going to work?
  8. 11:38Like, can I not crash out for 6 months and then I can crash out for six weeks, like a week straight?
  9. 16:04Is it really this? Is this my life?
  10. 17:31>> Well that's what's causing this problem, right?
  11. 18:43>> Is he from the Hamptons?
  12. 18:48>> You want to bust down a watch?
Martin Shkreli 0:00 ↗
You know what? I'm gonna call Keith. I want to see what the [__] is he doing? What the [__] he's doing?
>> Hi, dude. Where are you?
Co-Panelist 0:10 ↗
>> Uh, just enjoying myself.
Martin Shkreli 0:12 ↗
>> What the [__] enjoying yourself?
Co-Panelist 0:18 ↗
>> Yeah, I mean, I just wasn't really in the mood to do anything.
Martin Shkreli 0:21 ↗
>> What the [__] you weren't in the mood?
Co-Panelist 0:24 ↗
>> Um, no, not really.
Martin Shkreli 0:27 ↗
>> Okay. Um, September. What time did you get to sleep last night?
Co-Panelist 0:30 ↗
>> Volume 22% month on month.
Martin Shkreli 0:32 ↗
>> I guess it's none of my business, but...
Co-Panelist 0:34 ↗
>> Like three.
Martin Shkreli 0:35 ↗
>> Three. Okay.
Co-Panelist 0:37 ↗
>> Yeah.
Martin Shkreli 0:37 ↗
>> Um, well, I sold your intel. I hope that's okay.
Co-Panelist 0:41 ↗
>> Oh, thank you. Yeah, it's fine. I don't know. Yeah, I don't know. I just wasn't really in the mood today to do anything.
Martin Shkreli 0:48 ↗
>> Uh-huh. Just not the vibe, right?
Co-Panelist 0:51 ↗
>> No.
Martin Shkreli 0:52 ↗
>> You said I'm not streaming. I am streaming.
Co-Panelist 0:55 ↗
>> Oh [__] dude.
Martin Shkreli 0:58 ↗
You have to come to work tomorrow. We have a lot to do.
Co-Panelist 1:01 ↗
>> Yes, you have to. We have a lot of work to do.
>> See if I feel like it.
Martin Shkreli 1:06 ↗
>> What? Dude, you know the other people here don't have that luxury.
Co-Panelist 1:11 ↗
>> What do you mean?
Martin Shkreli 1:12 ↗
>> Like the other people, they can't like stay home if they feel like it.
Co-Panelist 1:17 ↗
>> Really?
Martin Shkreli 1:18 ↗
>> Yeah. Really? They have to go to work. It doesn't...
Co-Panelist 1:21 ↗
>> Okay.
Martin Shkreli 1:22 ↗
>> It's not... You don't get to say, 'What's the move? I'm going to work today.' You have to go every day.
Co-Panelist 1:30 ↗
>> I didn't know that.
Martin Shkreli 1:31 ↗
>> Yeah, I know you're young and you're new to the workforce, but yeah. No, you do have to go to work every day. You can't just not show up. Um, but you know, I appreciate you closed out all your positions before you took the day off.
Co-Panelist 1:42 ↗
>> I mean, yeah, of course.
Martin Shkreli 1:44 ↗
>> Yeah.
Co-Panelist 1:45 ↗
>> I'll see what kind of mood I am tomorrow, but then like if I want to, I guess I'll just show up tomorrow.
Martin Shkreli 1:52 ↗
>> All right, dude. We'll have a talk later. This is kind of out of pocket. All right, bro. Have a good rest of your day.
Co-Panelist 2:02 ↗
>> Okay. All right.
Martin Shkreli 2:04 ↗
>> The [__] this generation, dude. This generation next, you know, he's going to say that I'm... He's got to go. Well, at least the other guys here know that they can't do that. But I hope he doesn't set a bad example for them. Yeah, it's for real. Do you see Keith? You see Keith? That's where he sits. Do you see him? You see him? Is he there? Not in the [__] mood. Yeah. You know what? I'm not in the [__] mood for all these losses. [__] mood. Yeah, I'm not in the mood. Madna being at 210 either. I'm not in the mood. Yeah, let's get fat in here.
Yeah, M&A has been rallying, is back rallying. Keith is co the burglar when they took my wife's purse. That was real. Oh yeah, that was real. Wait, Keith is messaging me right now. Is he saying? He's still typing. If you don't mind, don't call me on my personal number. Okay, whatever. I owe his peeps a favor. Mitch Murray, I mean, it is his personal number. You know, it'd be a shame if I posted it online. He's not an epo baby. He's not an epo baby.
I like training the youth, man. Imagine you're able to work with a young Kanye, right? Imagine you were able to work with a young Hoveve, a young Buffett. You would give anything just to cross paths with them. Say, 'Yeah, I was in the studio with them. Crazy. I had him on my trading desk. It's crazy, right?'
How do you know he's not Hoveve? Maybe he's Hoveve. Maybe he's the next Seth Clarman, the next Bruce Ker. You know, you don't know that. I got to find out. I can't not find out.
What if the two most important words in the English language, what if? What if it turns out that way? What if he's a legend? That's what happened to Paul Tutor Jones. He got fired his first job. He came in late the next day or some [__]. I think that's legend. You got to ask PJT about that one.
Rookies are so envious of Keith or is crazy. No, he sold his STX. I'm holding it though. What a huge loss. Yeah, STX is bouncing back up. He took the L and took the day off. Emoji reply. Out of pocket, right? Who does that? Who does that?
I look emotionally, it could definitely send people... a loss, a drawdown can send people for a tailspin. You know, he basically refused to take the loss. He jumped into a volatile stock that he doesn't know as if he... There's a great poster I used to... it was right by your desk. It was a skeleton on fire and it said, 'State of the world bad. Mental health also bad. Yet still we march on.' Do you remember that poster?
Co-Panelist 5:21 ↗
>> It was by my desk. What? Inside the old office?
Martin Shkreli 5:24 ↗
>> In the old office?
Co-Panelist 5:26 ↗
>> Yeah. I'll print it out again. Dude, is this like...
>> You was the poster guy for the old...
Martin Shkreli 5:31 ↗
>> Oh, yeah. Yeah. I used to run the printer like a madman. Just put [__] everywhere.
Co-Panelist 5:36 ↗
>> Yeah. I don't know. Chris doesn't get to work from home.
Martin Shkreli 5:40 ↗
>> Yeah. Keith seems to be the new boss. 9:15 a.m. is lunch. Why did he and Keith go to bed at the same time? That's sus.
Co-Panelist 5:49 ↗
>> Yeah. Where were you? Where were you guys? Where were you?
Martin Shkreli 5:52 ↗
>> That's kind of sus. We was in different places. It do sound kind of sus. Yeah. Got to highlight Keith. I'm about to text him.
Co-Panelist 6:01 ↗
>> Well, uh, Wednesdays are optional for Keith. And then King Louie, who's this big hater, he said about you, he said, 'Call in the even bigger clown.'
Martin Shkreli 6:13 ↗
>> Who the [__] is King Louie?
Co-Panelist 6:14 ↗
>> Who the [__] is King Louie?
Martin Shkreli 6:15 ↗
>> Yeah, check his AUM. Let's pull him up. Pull him up. You know...
Co-Panelist 6:19 ↗
>> I know he's on YouTube.
Martin Shkreli 6:22 ↗
>> He's a YouTuber.
Co-Panelist 6:23 ↗
>> And then Keith. Yeah. Well, he's on our YouTube stream. I'm the YouTuber. He's the one, you know, watching and being a punk here soon. He'll be in the office. You get to meet him for the first time.
>> Rea, that dude rolls. Yeah.
Martin Shkreli 6:35 ↗
>> This is the loudest laugh of anyone I've heard in the world. I would hear him through two walls laughing with you and I'll be like...
Co-Panelist 6:41 ↗
>> Stop that laugh.
Martin Shkreli 6:43 ↗
>> I mean, it's iconic though. It's like a trademark.
Co-Panelist 6:48 ↗
>> Have you heard him laugh?
Martin Shkreli 6:50 ↗
>> Yeah.
Co-Panelist 6:51 ↗
>> I feel so bad.
Martin Shkreli 6:53 ↗
>> Oh my god. Yeah, you can hear it's like a tsunami warning, you know?
Co-Panelist 6:59 ↗
>> What's that? What's that? Uh...
Martin Shkreli 7:01 ↗
>> Oh, Temple OS.
Co-Panelist 7:02 ↗
>> Oh wow.
Martin Shkreli 7:03 ↗
>> I made this. Yeah. Remember I used to sell clothes?
Co-Panelist 7:06 ↗
>> That's why everyone's been bugging me for Godell merch cuz like I used to make stuff.
Martin Shkreli 7:10 ↗
>> Yeah.
Co-Panelist 7:10 ↗
>> And like I've been promising to chat like for a year. I'm really sorry...
Martin Shkreli 7:15 ↗
>> but I've been making... I'll make...
Co-Panelist 7:17 ↗
>> Yeah, we need to make our Q4 numbers. So...
Martin Shkreli 7:18 ↗
>> Yeah. Yeah, we made the mouse pads together. Yeah.
Co-Panelist 7:22 ↗
>> So, we'll um maybe I'll send like some...
>> We actually have live... they have a whole... I show a different merch.
Martin Shkreli 7:35 ↗
>> Yeah, we should get it up.
Co-Panelist 7:38 ↗
>> Exciting.
>> They supposed to present to Nick. So...
Martin Shkreli 7:42 ↗
>> Yeah. Yeah. I used to sell these for 100 bucks. I made a couple thousand bucks. It was good. And I told you Matt Fury shot down my Pepe shirt. I sold 10 hoodies and then I got in trouble and got shut down.
Co-Panelist 7:57 ↗
>> So will Bubba...
>> After Keith's loss, you'll need to sell merch. Keith probably doesn't even know what Temple OS is.
>> He war harder.
Martin Shkreli 8:08 ↗
>> Wow, man. This uh I actually caused a pretty big war in the Temple OS community because I was the first... so templeos.org is managed by somebody and um I just emailed the guy. He was this like weird skitso and I said, 'Hey, I'm selling this merch, you know, money goes to charity. Um, can you put me on the website?' They put me on the website and then every other Temple OS merch like lost their [__] and they're like, 'We need to be on the website.' There was this guy called Devour. He makes really good stuff. He made better stuff. But yeah, there was a whole civil war about should merch be on templeos.org and then finally they took everybody off. But this was like a three-year war of who got to be on the website. Like a whole drama.
Co-Panelist 8:54 ↗
>> Yeah.
Martin Shkreli 8:55 ↗
>> Yeah. Don't sell merch to Temple OS people. They're insane. They found my phone number. They started calling me.
Co-Panelist 9:02 ↗
>> Remember the guy we worked with?
Martin Shkreli 9:04 ↗
>> Yeah. Yeah.
Co-Panelist 9:05 ↗
>> And yeah. No, those people are intense.
Martin Shkreli 9:07 ↗
>> Yeah. They're very... Yeah.
>> We get Chelsea on the line. She has some comments on Temple OS. Um, probably has some common sense to blowout, but mostly on this Keith drama.
Co-Panelist 9:19 ↗
>> Oh.
Martin Shkreli 9:21 ↗
>> Um, you know...
Co-Panelist 9:22 ↗
>> Hey babe,
Martin Shkreli 9:23 ↗
>> you're here with me, Fat Cat and Chris. Hey,
Co-Panelist 9:26 ↗
>> what's up?
Martin Shkreli 9:27 ↗
>> Yeah, we're just talking about the Keith gay.
Co-Panelist 9:30 ↗
>> Well, you know, the vibes aren't right.
Martin Shkreli 9:34 ↗
>> The feeling ain't right.
Co-Panelist 9:36 ↗
>> It's a job.
>> There's not much you can do about that, right?
Martin Shkreli 9:40 ↗
>> What?
Co-Panelist 9:41 ↗
>> Sweetheart, she agreed with sweetheart. Um, this is a workplace.
>> Well, do you think your vibes aren't right with him?
Martin Shkreli 9:51 ↗
>> This is not about vibes. This is about a paycheck.
Co-Panelist 9:54 ↗
>> He was going to get the paycheck or...
Martin Shkreli 9:56 ↗
>> He said he wasn't in the mood.
Co-Panelist 9:58 ↗
>> He wasn't in the mood.
>> I mean, I'm sitting here having breakfast in California. Sounds pretty authentic to me.
Martin Shkreli 10:07 ↗
>> That he's not in the mood. So, he doesn't get to go to work.
Co-Panelist 10:10 ↗
>> Well, he's telling you the reason.
Martin Shkreli 10:12 ↗
>> That's not a reason.
Co-Panelist 10:14 ↗
>> Wasn't he down on a position yesterday and he was kind of bummed about it? He might be bag holding it.
Martin Shkreli 10:19 ↗
>> Yes.
Co-Panelist 10:19 ↗
>> What if he's like, you know, he's a little bit ashamed, you know?
Martin Shkreli 10:23 ↗
>> Yeah.
Co-Panelist 10:24 ↗
>> Cuz he had a hot streak and now he took an L and he doesn't know how to handle it maybe.
Martin Shkreli 10:28 ↗
>> What do you mean? Oh, no.
Co-Panelist 10:31 ↗
>> Would you rather hear the reason that he's not there or would you rather make up some lie about...
>> Yeah. Not being able to get his cat to the subway or...
>> Somebody says, 'What will Sam Alvin say uh if Chelsea is in Keith's situation?'
>> GPT, sorry, GPT is down, but the vibes ain't right.
Martin Shkreli 10:51 ↗
>> I can't...

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@misc{shkreli2026_3122547,
  author       = {Martin Shkreli},
  title        = {My Gen-Z Intern Thinks Showing Up To Work Is Optional},
  howpublished = {Interview transcript, Martin Shkreli. CEOInterviews.AI},
  year         = {2026},
  month        = {oct},
  url          = {https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/3122547/},
  note         = {Speaker-attributed transcript with timestamps}
}