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Every economy has to go through some kind of transition. In the early 1900s you had 40% of the people in the US working in agriculture and we had mechanization coming and people were scared what are…

Michael Dell ·Chairman & Chief Executive Officer DELL ·Feb 2016

US consumer Market in the last five years We Grew From 6% share to about 30% share. In fact, we sell more than the top three or four or five shops you can name combined and we use this thing called…

Michael Dell ·Chairman & Chief Executive Officer DELL ·Feb 2016

We used to be about three times more profitable than our competitors. Now we're about two and a half times more profitable than our competitors. But you know, I think we kind of underestimated how…

Michael Dell ·Chairman & Chief Executive Officer DELL ·Feb 2016

We have 11% share of the market outside the United States yet 70% of the markets outside the United States so we see enormous opportunities in these countries that are growing quite fast.

Michael Dell ·Chairman & Chief Executive Officer DELL ·Feb 2016

I think there's going to be a lot of projects that say and I don't know that this is necessarily their fault though there'd be some that are saying listen like the secondary is just not there like…

Kevin Rose ·Partner at True Ventures ·Nov 2022

With royalties going away you have to be really thoughtful on how you and I think this is really applicable to what you're building you have to be really thoughtful about where that revenue comes…

Kevin Rose ·Partner at True Ventures ·Nov 2022

I worry about large communities and expectations set around utility with large communities because the larger it becomes the harder it is to maintain, the more people expect things and the more room…

Kevin Rose ·Partner at True Ventures ·Nov 2022

I wouldn't be running this as like it's time to make a killing at this. What I'd be doing is building a hardcore dedicated following, you know what I mean? Like just going out there and saying hey…

Kevin Rose ·Partner at True Ventures ·Nov 2022

Do I think the execution on the behalf of C3 has been acceptable? It has been completely unacceptable, George. And you know if you want us to like fallen our sword or you know aviserate ourselves in…

Thomas Siebel ·Founder & Executive Chairman AI ·Jun 2026

Make no mistake, we're focused on software revenue, guys, not services, ladies and gentlemen. Software revenue. We understand the difference and that's what we're focused on.

Thomas Siebel ·Founder & Executive Chairman AI ·Jun 2026

As I look at the performance of the company in recent quarters and particularly the sales performance, I mean it is just unspeakably horrible and it's surreal. Okay, this is resulting in, you know,…

Thomas Siebel ·Founder & Executive Chairman AI ·Jun 2026

The head count has been reduced from,75 to roughly 700. We have taken almost $135 million in annual operating costs out of the business structure.

Thomas Siebel ·Founder & Executive Chairman AI ·Jun 2026

The performance of this company has been staggeringly disappointing. We're looking at a turnaround opportunity and the fundamental nature of this turnaround opportunity is to change everything about…

Thomas Siebel ·Founder & Executive Chairman AI ·Jun 2026

I fundamentally believe the future of the world is about hybrid. Really not necessary to let employees to go to office every day. And also it's too aggressive to send all employees back to the home…

Eric Yuan ·Founder, President, Chief Executive Officer & Chairman ZM ·Nov 2020

I think first of all, you know, used to be, you know, we have office headquarters, I'm gonna say, right, at Kansas office and the Denver office and New York office. Normally when it comes to hiring,…

Eric Yuan ·Founder, President, Chief Executive Officer & Chairman ZM ·Nov 2020

Over the past several years our goal was to build a killer app. Next 10 years our goal is to build a platform business.

Eric Yuan ·Founder, President, Chief Executive Officer & Chairman ZM ·Nov 2020

I really do not think we had a big vision. And we were thinking about two things. First of all, every day we thought about how to survive, you know, it's a very crowded market. And why, you know,…

Eric Yuan ·Founder, President, Chief Executive Officer & Chairman ZM ·Nov 2020

If you run around saying AI allowed you to fire two-thirds of your workforce and you did it because maybe your competitor's kicking your ass. Yeah, that could that is a really like you might as well…

Alexander Karp ·Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer & Director PLTR ·Jun 2026

The primary risk honestly to Palantir and a lot of these other countries is and then it's going to be nationalized before national it's going to be regulated by people who don't understand this and…

Alexander Karp ·Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer & Director PLTR ·Jun 2026

I'll give you some news they're super not charismatic with enterprises and the people like in a way... The enterprise people. I have a secret. I have a secret. Like, every company has a secret way of…

Alexander Karp ·Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer & Director PLTR ·Jun 2026

There is no like AI like if you look at like pick any issue you want to talk about token mechanism maxing uh what's going on with deploy codes are other people going to build ontologies why are why…

Alexander Karp ·Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer & Director PLTR ·Jun 2026

I've been intrigued and I've talked about this before about AI and machine learning and I've been intrigued and concerned all at the same time, you know, um because I think that it is has an…

Frank Cooper ·Chief Marketing Officer V ·Jun 2026

I can't get my mind wrapped around the idea that there's any medium where the engagement is been has been decreasing, the viewership has been decreasing, but the prices keep going up. I can't get my…

Frank Cooper ·Chief Marketing Officer V ·Jun 2026

I decided to start in culture first. So I said let me look at how are things happening within culture. How are people grouping themselves? And it's always vastly different from any of the the…

Frank Cooper ·Chief Marketing Officer V ·Jun 2026

It is extremely competitive. And, uh, yeah, we did raise a lot of money. We're proud of that. But that's that's not any big accomplishment. We didn't set out to break some sort of record. Um, it's…

Mira Murati ·Former Chief Technology Officer ·Jun 2026

I think the more likely path and more durable path to, to advance AI in a way that, um, enables and advances civilization is by keeping humans in the loop, uh, for as long as we can and really making…

Mira Murati ·Former Chief Technology Officer ·Jun 2026

I have very high conviction that the way to continue building frontier AI systems is to bring people along and to have humans in the loop. Actually having humans in the loop doesn't quite describe…

Mira Murati ·Former Chief Technology Officer ·Jun 2026

I think the integrity character values of the people matter a lot because there are a lot of decisions, micro decisions you have to make every day, and you have to trust your team that they're making…

Mira Murati ·Former Chief Technology Officer ·Jun 2026

If you can compromise the software that drives our grid, our water systems, our financial institutions, our healthare systems, you can shut down a country. You have that leverage over them. And so if…

Aidan Gomez ·CEO and Cofounder ·Jun 2026

Similar to our tech strategy, we've decided to take our national wealth, our pensions, etc., and hand it to capital managers in other countries who invest in indices and don't do any sort of active…

Aidan Gomez ·CEO and Cofounder ·Jun 2026