https://minutesof.com/on/innovation/ Everyone on the record about innovation: 30 verbatim quotes from 9 people, April 2017 to May 2026, in one chronology, each with a timestamp and a link to… en Sun, 30 Aug 2026 22:33:01 +0000 https://minutesof.com/q/724d4fa1-0d90-443b-9030-aba7f4a46d95/ https://minutesof.com/q/724d4fa1-0d90-443b-9030-aba7f4a46d95/ “Through the New York Innovation Center in the Markets Group at the New York Fed, and in collaboration with the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), we conduct hands-on research projects around technological innovation.” — John Williams, NY Fed speeches innovation https://minutesof.com/q/5247a50e-c245-4478-b7dd-79467a7c05d2/ https://minutesof.com/q/5247a50e-c245-4478-b7dd-79467a7c05d2/ “We have made it hard for firms to experiment with cellphone apps, streaming video, podcasts, virtual conference room presentations, and anything else that is not an e-delivered pdf.” — Paul Atkins, SEC speeches and statements innovation https://minutesof.com/q/6e2f849f-1f38-43d1-9159-811289ef5bb7/ https://minutesof.com/q/6e2f849f-1f38-43d1-9159-811289ef5bb7/ “I hope to see interactive and customized disclosures, something that is not possible with paper.” — Paul Atkins, SEC speeches and statements innovation https://minutesof.com/q/fc35d3e9-9c4f-465a-8e99-50be34f51382/ https://minutesof.com/q/fc35d3e9-9c4f-465a-8e99-50be34f51382/ “Most people in most enterprises that aren't owner operators don't want to fail. They want to keep their job. They want to move up the ladder by being repeatedly successful.” — David Friedberg, All-In Podcast Tue, 12 May 2026 21:17:30 +0000 innovation https://minutesof.com/q/746c1171-f47b-4bdf-af74-4ebc82fb005d/ https://minutesof.com/q/746c1171-f47b-4bdf-af74-4ebc82fb005d/ “They have built, inside of a communist country, have built a system that's highly competitive. And it comes from leveraging provincial competition and some other things.” — Bill Gurley, MIT Sloan VCPE Mon, 11 May 2026 19:59:13 +0000 innovation https://minutesof.com/q/a5131424-b4e3-4eec-b6a3-5b401f508fb4/ https://minutesof.com/q/a5131424-b4e3-4eec-b6a3-5b401f508fb4/ “That is an easy commitment for us. We will never pick just one winner. That that makes no sense for America.” — Howard Lutnick, Forbes Breaking News Mon, 11 May 2026 05:00:59 +0000 innovation https://minutesof.com/q/7848f479-752a-408e-9567-beda5ec890b8/ https://minutesof.com/q/7848f479-752a-408e-9567-beda5ec890b8/ “Can AI sit down with five business plans and figure out which one is Amazon? Can AI sit down with five CEOs and figure out which one is Steve Jobs.” — Howard Marks, Nikhil Kamath Mon, 04 May 2026 14:30:01 +0000 innovation https://minutesof.com/q/9cfd8755-e421-47f3-958c-ab095f5f6e5c/ https://minutesof.com/q/9cfd8755-e421-47f3-958c-ab095f5f6e5c/ “But I'll go through the companies who are creating massive change. SpaceX, Anthropic, OpenAI, Stripe, Cursor, Cognition, Andoril. What do all of them have in common?” — Marc Rowan, CNBC Events Thu, 16 Apr 2026 13:25:25 +0000 innovation https://minutesof.com/q/38451ef6-c26a-49ea-90de-c686cf7e3a12/ https://minutesof.com/q/38451ef6-c26a-49ea-90de-c686cf7e3a12/ “I think that had Microsoft not been under threat in the late nineties, you may not have seen Amazon or Google or a lot of companies you may not have seen.” — Bill Gurley, Prof G Markets Fri, 27 Mar 2026 11:00:44 +0000 innovation https://minutesof.com/q/83b67147-bef5-4405-b728-c2517c8dd342/ https://minutesof.com/q/83b67147-bef5-4405-b728-c2517c8dd342/ “I always make this point that the bubbles are very, very around something new because the imagination is untrammed and it can go off in a flight of fancy.” — Howard Marks, The Investor’s Podcast Sat, 21 Feb 2026 22:45:03 +0000 innovation https://minutesof.com/q/19f92f69-fdeb-4b0f-8094-3ddf216ba811/ https://minutesof.com/q/19f92f69-fdeb-4b0f-8094-3ddf216ba811/ “These entrepreneurs are every bit as good as the entrepreneurs they are here. There are examples like in LiDAR, they built a MEMS LiDAR product that's like $130 a car.” — Bill Gurley, Tim Ferriss Wed, 17 Dec 2025 16:45:52 +0000 innovation https://minutesof.com/q/0178caa5-3d30-46d4-95fa-151d71666594/ https://minutesof.com/q/0178caa5-3d30-46d4-95fa-151d71666594/ “And that's just flat wrong. Whoever's saying that just hasn't been there. They don't know the facts on the ground.” — Bill Gurley, Tim Ferriss Wed, 17 Dec 2025 16:45:52 +0000 innovation https://minutesof.com/q/dcbf1cfa-31f3-48b3-8ef5-18c4ae966e8a/ https://minutesof.com/q/dcbf1cfa-31f3-48b3-8ef5-18c4ae966e8a/ “And I think just this broad question or observation that sometimes inquisitive minds leads to research that leads to some set of discoveries that are completely not apparent until forty years later, the effect or the impact it may have had Yeah. On building an industrial field.” — David Friedberg, All-In Podcast Mon, 27 Oct 2025 17:56:50 +0000 innovation https://minutesof.com/q/38a26d21-4d7c-44f1-8e5e-744ea95ac411/ https://minutesof.com/q/38a26d21-4d7c-44f1-8e5e-744ea95ac411/ “I mean, it's very interesting. And I think just this broad question or observation that sometimes inquisitive minds leads to research that leads to some set of discoveries that are completely not apparent until forty years later, the effect or the impact it may have had” — David Friedberg, All-In Podcast Mon, 27 Oct 2025 17:56:50 +0000 innovation https://minutesof.com/q/9ad7d6a9-ed9b-44d0-adff-f46e57821794/ https://minutesof.com/q/9ad7d6a9-ed9b-44d0-adff-f46e57821794/ “make it, let's say, fully adapt it to the world of data in a way that no one else has seemed to have had the conceptual approach.” — Sir Richard Dearlove, One Decision Sat, 04 Oct 2025 19:00:46 +0000 innovation https://minutesof.com/q/8098374f-a069-46ed-b9d9-79587b3d1a41/ https://minutesof.com/q/8098374f-a069-46ed-b9d9-79587b3d1a41/ “But that doesn't mean that ag tech isn't innovating, and that we aren't improving productivity and bringing value to farmers and improving the quality of our food systems.” — David Friedberg, The Modern Acre Thu, 11 Sep 2025 16:54:41 +0000 innovation https://minutesof.com/q/e605933a-de31-47f8-bc75-c001b32ee43f/ https://minutesof.com/q/e605933a-de31-47f8-bc75-c001b32ee43f/ “I think that the ag market is going through a lot of fantastic innovation cycles right now. Everyone views the ag tech market negatively because the returns for the ag tech investor class isn't there.” — David Friedberg, The Modern Acre Thu, 11 Sep 2025 16:54:41 +0000 innovation https://minutesof.com/q/8ccd51b2-9965-4de1-897c-9527f78beb48/ https://minutesof.com/q/8ccd51b2-9965-4de1-897c-9527f78beb48/ “But that doesn't mean that ag tech isn't innovating and that we aren't improving productivity and bringing value to farmers and improving the quality of our food systems.” — David Friedberg, The Modern Acre Thu, 11 Sep 2025 16:22:17 +0000 innovation https://minutesof.com/q/8e4a3d56-fc2d-4ea4-a823-09ca7d2f1669/ https://minutesof.com/q/8e4a3d56-fc2d-4ea4-a823-09ca7d2f1669/ “I always tell people I think they underappreciate the role that Bell Labs played in driving innovation and ultimately human prosperity in the early twentieth century.” — David Friedberg, All-In Podcast Fri, 16 May 2025 05:57:14 +0000 innovation https://minutesof.com/q/4070ea99-7e29-4f6a-b1c1-bdd04098aee6/ https://minutesof.com/q/4070ea99-7e29-4f6a-b1c1-bdd04098aee6/ “So it unlocks a significant yield gain and it creates new opportunities for creating seed products in markets where it doesn't exist.” — David Friedberg, Seed World Group Mon, 20 Jan 2025 17:23:06 +0000 innovation https://minutesof.com/q/fa5c49c7-b5a7-4526-9219-dc8c450ce0aa/ https://minutesof.com/q/fa5c49c7-b5a7-4526-9219-dc8c450ce0aa/ “99 of them never saw a single invention in their entire life. Their entire life, right, was about survival.” — Brad Gerstner, Summit Tue, 01 Oct 2024 18:01:32 +0000 innovation https://minutesof.com/q/721f803c-9c47-41cc-8a7d-7bf5b6a9d9cd/ https://minutesof.com/q/721f803c-9c47-41cc-8a7d-7bf5b6a9d9cd/ “Eighteen hundred years, okay? Almost zero growth in GDP. And then just after the year 1800, you have this parabolic move in global GDP.” — Brad Gerstner, Summit Tue, 01 Oct 2024 18:01:32 +0000 innovation https://minutesof.com/q/8c0cf8d3-e9ed-4b6e-a347-e11f3ef7ce9e/ https://minutesof.com/q/8c0cf8d3-e9ed-4b6e-a347-e11f3ef7ce9e/ “This is one of the very first waves where the incumbents were eyes wide open at the beginning of the technology shift.” — Bill Gurley, BG2 Pod Fri, 09 Aug 2024 00:27:40 +0000 innovation https://minutesof.com/q/4cc02cdd-3e86-435e-ac62-521a0e650d71/ https://minutesof.com/q/4cc02cdd-3e86-435e-ac62-521a0e650d71/ “we've still been farming Russet Burbank in The US for a hundred plus years. That's a hundred year old variety.” — David Friedberg, TED Tue, 25 Jun 2024 11:00:23 +0000 innovation https://minutesof.com/q/b93891d7-c9b2-4ba3-8c51-45c1757be2e0/ https://minutesof.com/q/b93891d7-c9b2-4ba3-8c51-45c1757be2e0/ “The idea was we could turn off the process that causes the fusion, the reduction of the DNA, and have it have all the DNA. And so we did this. It started to work.” — David Friedberg, TED Tue, 25 Jun 2024 11:00:23 +0000 innovation https://minutesof.com/q/6e8cd820-962b-4a20-aa07-1d8b908c2735/ https://minutesof.com/q/6e8cd820-962b-4a20-aa07-1d8b908c2735/ “that doesn't mean that ag tech isn't innovating and that we aren't improving productivity and bringing value to farmers and improving the quality of our food systems.” — David Friedberg, The Modern Acre Tue, 04 Jun 2024 12:55:12 +0000 innovation https://minutesof.com/q/008ca4bf-ed51-4af4-83f6-458db470a9ff/ https://minutesof.com/q/008ca4bf-ed51-4af4-83f6-458db470a9ff/ “And, you know, complexity breeds fear because it breeds a higher chance of failure. You know, you have to get each of these things right for something to work.” — David Friedberg, How I Invest Podcast Tue, 09 Jan 2024 04:38:21 +0000 innovation https://minutesof.com/q/5cc51ac7-87aa-46b8-a2ec-300155f8ea29/ https://minutesof.com/q/5cc51ac7-87aa-46b8-a2ec-300155f8ea29/ “Well, there's I don't know about, using the term thinker, but I think that the, the big concepts are scary because there's so many things that have to go right to get them to work.” — David Friedberg, How I Invest Podcast Tue, 09 Jan 2024 04:38:21 +0000 innovation https://minutesof.com/q/8b89d375-689b-46a1-8edf-cac385b4a5c5/ https://minutesof.com/q/8b89d375-689b-46a1-8edf-cac385b4a5c5/ “And if they try and do that, then they step in and they try and run a tech company and the whole thing gets ruined and falls apart as we've seen in M and A over and over again in many different So it is this kind of classic innovator dilemma moment that we're seeing in financial services” — David Friedberg, CNBC Television Tue, 13 Jul 2021 17:05:56 +0000 innovation https://minutesof.com/q/60b1ab7a-113e-44ad-a3f3-3209723b061a/ https://minutesof.com/q/60b1ab7a-113e-44ad-a3f3-3209723b061a/ “Products that are able to be disruptive get over designed. They get over feature rich, they get complex, they get heavy.” — Bill Gurley, This Week in Startups Fri, 07 Apr 2017 23:27:51 +0000 innovation