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The imperative to electrify really our whole world, to transition us off fossil fuels, is one of the sort of guiding True North principles that's excited me, that's kept me focused, and something I…

Jb Straubel ·Cofounder TSLA ·Jun 2023

I think if we were sitting here in 20 or 30 years, it's going to be patently obvious that most of the materials in batteries will be recycled, most of them will be in a closed loop.

Jb Straubel ·Cofounder TSLA ·Jun 2023

It's really, really crazy to me that we would go through all this work to do exploration, a permit, a mine, dig up the Earth, refine the materials, make it into a product, and then throw it away.…

Jb Straubel ·Cofounder TSLA ·Jun 2023

I love being an entrepreneur. You know, for me that's part of the fun. You know, many people asked, you know, why on Earth would I possibly leave this, you know, CTO role at Tesla? It was this…

Jb Straubel ·Cofounder TSLA ·Jun 2023

As those systems become more and more intelligent, they become more powerful. So the question is who controls that power? And there are a few bad options, right? It's concentrated in the hands of a…

Yoshua Bengio ·Scientific Director ·Jun 2026

I think it's also going to take government intervention to provide the right incentive because there's a good chance that it's going to be more expensive to have more powerful guardrails and if…

Yoshua Bengio ·Scientific Director ·Jun 2026

I think it's a huge mistake that we're collectively making to try to turn AIs into humanlike entities. Even though there's a huge demand for that, it's not healthy and there's a lot that we don't…

Yoshua Bengio ·Scientific Director ·Jun 2026

By the force of competition and greed for domination. That's the reason we are in trouble. The companies are racing fiercely and even when they're led by people with goodwill, it's a question of…

Yoshua Bengio ·Scientific Director ·Jun 2026

I think the gas prices in the United States are effectively a regressive tax for a lot of people, and I think it's putting a lot of pain in people's pocketbooks. Discretionary spending we thought…

Anthony Scaramucci ·Founder ·Apr 2022

As it starts to normalize, you're going to bring that inflation back in line. Moreover, you have so much new technology coming on the scene, the introduction of 5G, robotics, all this great stuff,…

Anthony Scaramucci ·Founder ·Apr 2022

I'm in the camp, perhaps the word transitory was the wrong word, but you know, I've been going around speaking at conferences, being on panels... and the general consensus is the Fed has it wrong,…

Anthony Scaramucci ·Founder ·Apr 2022

I'm not quite convinced that there'll be a recession. The economy is booming around the world. The inflation data is high because of the supply chain disruption but also the Federal Reserve's…

Anthony Scaramucci ·Founder ·Apr 2022

An economy that has high productivity can grow faster before it starts to create inflationary pressure. So that means an economy can heat up, it can get going, it can grow quickly and it's not going…

Carolyn Rogers ·Senior Deputy Governor ·Jun 2026

The losses on our balance sheet stem from the quantitative easing during the pandemic. That was not a funding the bank strategy. That is not what that was. Quantitative easing was a strategy to try…

Carolyn Rogers ·Senior Deputy Governor ·Jun 2026

Two quarters of annualized contraction in GDP does meet one definition of a recession. But you know, simply the fact that you have to put the term technical in front of it sort of tells you that you…

Carolyn Rogers ·Senior Deputy Governor ·Jun 2026

One of the ways that Canada could boost its ability to deal with economic shocks is to improve our productivity. Productivity can act as a buffer when you experience the kind of shocks that we have…

Carolyn Rogers ·Senior Deputy Governor ·Jun 2026

Noi oggi siamo i leader nel campo del 5 gg perché abbiamo iniziato a studiare molto presto la banda di trasmissione del 5 gen il seggi a una banda ancora più larga e più dati ma perché si sviluppi in…

Ren Zhengfei ·Founder & CEO ·Aug 2019

Europa e cina a livello economico sono complementari la manifattura europea è molto a lanciata così come nel settore dei servizi la cina ne ha bisogno ad esempio i prodotti di illusioni ed in italy…

Ren Zhengfei ·Founder & CEO ·Aug 2019

Innanzitutto il deficit in semi briga nessuna compagnia riferire delegato anzi siete all'installazione delle bacio facessimo una cosa del genere l'azienda fallirebbe tangenti sarebbero licenziati noi…

Ren Zhengfei ·Founder & CEO ·Aug 2019

In secondo luogo non abbiamo intenzione di collaborare con i militari perché non abbiamo abbastanza conoscenza dell'ambiente le intelligenze artificiali sono correlate alle singole industrie e non…

Ren Zhengfei ·Founder & CEO ·Aug 2019

Non sapevo che l'america avrebbe usato questo approccio. Come ci center umanamente in questo momento difficile i figli ha potuto riconoscere l'importanza di avere una famiglia che la supporta quando…

Ren Zhengfei ·Founder & CEO ·Aug 2019

The business model is just as important as a feature. And the business model is just as tuned into product as features is. It's not marketing, sales, and business model on the right and product on…

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

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

The large publicly traded miners will continue to add hash rate. The medium-sized guys are going to struggle because they don't have access to capital like we do and they have to sell all their…

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

We are first and foremost Bitcoin is our treasury reserve asset. We keep all our assets in Bitcoin. So if there are ways for us to acquire Bitcoin at lower cost than mining, shouldn't we evaluate…

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

If you're going to really be successful long term in the AI space as a Bitcoin miner, you're not going to operate HPC. It makes no sense for Bitcoin miners to be operating Nvidia rigs or investing in…

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

We have a stated goal that by 2028 50% of our revenues will come from outside the US and 50% of those revenues will be non-bitcoin mining related. So we're very focused on the Technology Innovation,…

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