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The past 30 years have seen a sort of gradual what I would describe as hollowing out of technological capability within Canada, within Europe. And we've introduced what is a ostensibly a single point…

Aidan Gomez ·CEO and Cofounder ·Jun 2026

Capitalism is a fantastic system. It finds extraordinarily efficient methods of delivering what the world needs and it is fantastic at aligning interests. But one thing that doesn't come naturally…

Aidan Gomez ·CEO and Cofounder ·Jun 2026

Reliability is not a problem only specific to AI. It's a problem specific to anything we rely on.

Ion Stoica ·Cofounder ·Jun 2026

It turns out that yes, the power of the LLMs can be a problem, but it's not the only problem. Like I mention specification and system designs are also issues. For instance, here if we are going to…

Ion Stoica ·Cofounder ·Jun 2026

LLMs are the key components in the agentic systems but they rarely have clear specification, hard to know even on the error occurs. Also assuming that you know that you have a bug then debugging them…

Ion Stoica ·Cofounder ·Jun 2026

In many cases prototyping a feature, demoing a feature is easy. What is hard taking this feature to production. It's between 10 to 50 times requires more resources time to take a feature from…

Ion Stoica ·Cofounder ·Jun 2026

I am going to make the argument that arguably the biggest challenge, biggest barrier to AI adoption, in particular in enterprises, is reliability.

Ion Stoica ·Cofounder ·Jun 2026

There are three things that screw up any relationship is sex, money and ego. So let's talk about money and ego. The money parts you work out, the hard parts the ego. And that's really, really tough.

Henry Kravis ·Co-Founder & Executive Co-Chairman KKR ·May 2026

When everything looks the worst, that's the time, in our view, to lean in. And that's what we have done, continually. And you have to have the courage of your convictions and you got to see it…

Henry Kravis ·Co-Founder & Executive Co-Chairman KKR ·May 2026

We've made our best investments and had the best returns at the time when everybody's looking at their shoes and saying, woe, poor me, world's coming to an end. I promise the world doesn't come to an…

Henry Kravis ·Co-Founder & Executive Co-Chairman KKR ·May 2026

Students today unfortunately want to specialize. And I think the world is changing so fast. I think it's a huge mistake to just specialize right off the bat in your freshman sophomore year.

Henry Kravis ·Co-Founder & Executive Co-Chairman KKR ·May 2026

I'm convinced that you cannot be successful. And I don't care whether it's being an investor or being in business or a lot of other professions. If you're not curious.

Henry Kravis ·Co-Founder & Executive Co-Chairman KKR ·May 2026

you know i think uh you know the the core issue that has to be addressed in windows 8 is is a touch interface and you know think about navigating with with a mouse versus your finger it's a very very…

Michael Dell ·Chairman & Chief Executive Officer DELL ·Jul 2011

you know i think probably the bigger story right now is arm versus x86 you know in terms of microprocessor architectures but certainly for certain kinds of computing tasks gpus are fantastic.

Michael Dell ·Chairman & Chief Executive Officer DELL ·Jul 2011

when we look at the industry first first we see it's a 2.7 trillion dollar industry and it's a very dispersed industry in the sense that there are there's no company that has anywhere near…

Michael Dell ·Chairman & Chief Executive Officer DELL ·Jul 2011

we've announced a billion dollar organic investment in growth and innovation and our cloud investments are part of that.

Michael Dell ·Chairman & Chief Executive Officer DELL ·Jul 2011

we have seen healthcare pharmaceutical companies and those that may be part of the process to develop vaccines or have some research and development surrounding covid being targeted. I think that…

Shawn Henry ·Chief Security Officer CRWD ·Jun 2021

I think the biggest concern we should have it's that misinformation campaign leading up to election day on the third of November.

Shawn Henry ·Chief Security Officer CRWD ·Jun 2021

the actual manipulation of votes themselves to have a real impact on the election is really a low risk according to a lot of people I've spoken with because of how dispersed our election system is…

Shawn Henry ·Chief Security Officer CRWD ·Jun 2021

What is true that nobody agrees with? These kinds of questions turn out to be sort of surprisingly difficult for people to answer and not the kinds of work that we're used to trying to find an answer.

Peter Thiel ·Co-Founder & Chairman PLTR ·Jan 2014

The next Bill Gates will not start an operating system company, the next Larry Page will not start a search engine, and the next Mark Zuckerberg will not start a social network. In some ways it's…

Peter Thiel ·Co-Founder & Chairman PLTR ·Jan 2014

I think there are basically two kinds of companies. There are companies that are monopolies and they make money and there are companies that are not monopolies and they do not make money. This…

Peter Thiel ·Co-Founder & Chairman PLTR ·Jan 2014

I think the context that Vitalik was really saying he wasn't saying that L2s are dead he was saying that L2s need to specialize in their particular domain whatever that may be in order to stand out…

Yat Siu ·Executive Chairman & Co-Founder ·Jun 2026

I think Ethereum's biggest problem is is its image problem. Um I think Ethereum's problem is that uh you know it's it's and I think they they see it uh but they struggle with it a little bit because…

Yat Siu ·Executive Chairman & Co-Founder ·Jun 2026

I think Ethereum I don't think is is overvalued. Um I mean personally um but you know disclosure I do hold Ethereum so so so of course of course right uh but but in our industry we kind of have to…

Yat Siu ·Executive Chairman & Co-Founder ·Jun 2026

I don't think America wants to fall behind the rest of the world. So so our joint venture anchor point just recently received the license for the dollar stable coin. We passed our law in Lecho last…

Yat Siu ·Executive Chairman & Co-Founder ·Jun 2026

I think one of the things that we need to sort of really sort of reflect on is that actually what's happened in most of crypto is it isn't so much that we've basically brought finance to games, but…

Yat Siu ·Executive Chairman & Co-Founder ·Jun 2026

I think the way we write our code is so there are multiple ways to think about it one way to think about it is I'm writing code for the machine to execute right so I don't have to write anything that…

Amjad Masad ·CEO & Co-Founder ·Nov 2017

I think the biggest one is concurrency. So call me the JavaScript was so I came from I came from PHP in school Java C++ and before that I did Visual Basic and all these are like blocking synchronous…

Amjad Masad ·CEO & Co-Founder ·Nov 2017

I think what's happening in the kind of what's been dubbed the web 3 which is the distributed web I think this is really exciting for me... what all these projects are trying to solve is…

Amjad Masad ·CEO & Co-Founder ·Nov 2017