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Imagine a world where the US started holding Bitcoin as a reserve asset. They would need for Bitcoin mining the bulk of Bitcoin mining in the world to be done in the US for that to be something that…

Frederick Thiel ·Chief Executive Officer & Executive Chairman MATV ·Jul 2024

There's only two industries that call their customers users. And one, one is the drugs you buy on the corner. And the other is us, the users. So, if you think of them as users, like, you know, right,…

Jason Cohen ·Founder & Chief Innovation Officer ·Jun 2026

I know for sure that engineer can build the features. There's actually very little risk of building the features. But will that same engineer be able to do everything else I said? Almost for sure…

Jason Cohen ·Founder & Chief Innovation Officer ·Jun 2026

Almost always the problem with any company is not enough sales. ... Probably the most impactful thing you could ever do is increase sales 10%. If you could add one feature and increase and double…

Jason Cohen ·Founder & Chief Innovation Officer ·Jun 2026

You cannot in fact act like a bigger company. You will not deliver like a larger company will deliver and that will come out and then it's embarrassing because then it's clear that you've kind of…

Jason Cohen ·Founder & Chief Innovation Officer ·Jun 2026

If you find any advice whatsoever I can find you someone else who's very smart and successful who will tell you to do the opposite no matter what anything. ... So given that, what do you then do?…

Jason Cohen ·Founder & Chief Innovation Officer ·Jun 2026

There's always a belief in a recession or difficult economic times, video games as an industry does better. I think there's not necessarily supportable data to that effect. I think you've seen…

Robert Kotick ·Former Chief Executive Officer ATVI ·Jul 2023

We came to a great agreement with the EU that was sensible and responsible, and I think was well thought through. So we have already come up with remedies that make a lot of sense and that work well…

Robert Kotick ·Former Chief Executive Officer ATVI ·Jul 2023

Look, there's enormous competition. Xbox is the third-place competitor in the console business. Nintendo and Sony have had dominance in the business for almost as long as you've been in the business.…

Robert Kotick ·Former Chief Executive Officer ATVI ·Jul 2023

I would be surprised if they waste taxpayer resources on something like that. The opinion was well written, like I said, she's a very deliberate judge. I can't imagine the Ninth Circuit would grant…

Robert Kotick ·Former Chief Executive Officer ATVI ·Jul 2023

I think the judge was very sensible, she was very deliberate, clearly understood the details of the case, the law, and made a judgment based on facts and law, and wasn't swayed by ideology.

Robert Kotick ·Former Chief Executive Officer ATVI ·Jul 2023

We saw the opportunity for AI to transform agreement management three years ago. That's what led us to IM. And I think it's really playing out as we forecasted. And the market is really now starting…

Allan Thygesen ·President, Chief Executive Officer & Director DOCU ·Jun 2026

We continue to believe we can achieve up to a 15 percentage point improvement in precision and recall compared to our models trained on public contract data while operating at incredible cost…

Allan Thygesen ·President, Chief Executive Officer & Director DOCU ·Jun 2026

We have reached an inflection point in agreement management. Customers now recognize how a unified AI agreement platform spanning the organization can solve problems that isolated department level…

Allan Thygesen ·President, Chief Executive Officer & Director DOCU ·Jun 2026

In Q1 revenue was 830 million up 9% year-over-year. This consistency drives our conviction in the AR acceleration as part of our fiscal 27 outlook. On the bottom line, operating margins were 32% and…

Allan Thygesen ·President, Chief Executive Officer & Director DOCU ·Jun 2026

We have 40,000 companies invested in IM and they generated 12.6% of total company AR. Our AI innovation is establishing IM as the definitive agreement platform and we are rapidly launching new…

Allan Thygesen ·President, Chief Executive Officer & Director DOCU ·Jun 2026

I know for sure that engineer can build the features. There's actually very little risk of building the features. But will that same engineer be able to do everything else I said? Almost for sure…

Jason Cohen ·Founder & Chief Innovation Officer ·Jun 2026

Almost always the problem with any company is not enough sales. ... Probably the most impactful thing you could ever do is increase sales 10%. If you could add one feature and increase and double…

Jason Cohen ·Founder & Chief Innovation Officer ·Jun 2026

The problem is that uh you cannot in fact act like a bigger company. You will not deliver like a larger company will deliver and that will come out and then it's embarrassing because then it's clear…

Jason Cohen ·Founder & Chief Innovation Officer ·Jun 2026

One of the few things that you have when you're little is you can move really you can change directions really fast because you don't have any of those things like customers. Um, you can make…

Jason Cohen ·Founder & Chief Innovation Officer ·Jun 2026

If you find any advice whatsoever I can find you someone else who's very smart and successful who will tell you to do the opposite no matter what anything. ... So given that, what do you then do?…

Jason Cohen ·Founder & Chief Innovation Officer ·Jun 2026

Courage is not the absence of fear. If you're not afraid you're not a human being. It is your willingness to stand up and face it that makes you somebody worth respecting.

Brad Smith ·Former Chairman & Chief Executive Officer INTU ·Jun 2018

He didn't care about race, color, religion, sexual orientation, personality style. For Bill there was only three things that mattered: the first thing was your passion, the second was your grit, your…

Brad Smith ·Former Chairman & Chief Executive Officer INTU ·Jun 2018

Every night when you go to bed you should go to bed and you should think about 8,000 employees who work in this company. I want you to picture their faces, think about their families and tuck them in…

Brad Smith ·Former Chairman & Chief Executive Officer INTU ·Jun 2018

He believed that your responsibility was to serve others and he didn't believe you could separate somebody's personal life from their professional life. He saw those as two sides of the same coin so…

Brad Smith ·Former Chairman & Chief Executive Officer INTU ·Jun 2018

Your title makes you a manager, your people will decide if you're a leader. Don't ever think because someone tells you you're the coach or because you're the parent, because you fathered a child or…

Brad Smith ·Former Chairman & Chief Executive Officer INTU ·Jun 2018

I always used to say when I'd be talking to say a staff member who'd be concerned that their kid wasn't going to get into an Ivy League school and I'd say geez as long as somebody goes to like a top…

David Cote ·Former Chairman & Chief Executive Officer HON ·Apr 2023

The point I try to make is that you have to do both. There's this concept that I like a lot that in fact there are still people who repeat it in the company that success is about achieving two…

David Cote ·Former Chairman & Chief Executive Officer HON ·Apr 2023

I realized the extent of the issues that we had to deal with the aggressive accounting the unrecognized environmental Asbestos and pension liabilities I said oh man okay I just got a buckle down I…

David Cote ·Former Chairman & Chief Executive Officer HON ·Apr 2023

I'm not good enough to know where things are heading I would say I'm a big believer in personal responsibility regardless circumstances at the end of the day that's the only thing that really makes a…

David Cote ·Former Chairman & Chief Executive Officer HON ·Apr 2023