management: everyone on the record — The Minutes https://minutesof.com/on/management/ Everyone on the record about management: 10 verbatim quotes from 5 people, August 2011 to March 2026, in one chronology, each with a timestamp and a link… en Sun, 30 Aug 2026 22:33:04 +0000 Howard Marks: Marks doubts AI can pick the best managers because it requires intuition and subjective feel. https://minutesof.com/q/ae93d8f1-76ae-4595-b625-f12f9d452afc/ https://minutesof.com/q/ae93d8f1-76ae-4595-b625-f12f9d452afc/ “Because picking the best managers requires an intuition and a subjective feel that I would be surprised to learn that AI can be very good at.” — Howard Marks, Oaktree Tue, 24 Mar 2026 14:08:16 +0000 management Bill Gurley: Gurley says he encourages founders to have executives develop five external peers and meet quarte https://minutesof.com/q/c3a3ebcc-d267-4154-8be7-466b3576b440/ https://minutesof.com/q/c3a3ebcc-d267-4154-8be7-466b3576b440/ “And I've been very unable to make that programmatic or make that successful and people find it foreign.” — Bill Gurley, Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin Thu, 12 Feb 2026 16:34:22 +0000 management David Tepper: Tepper says he has had the same people working at his hedge fund forever, contrasting public per https://minutesof.com/q/270f4e06-9b08-4130-b56e-c8792d7fc266/ https://minutesof.com/q/270f4e06-9b08-4130-b56e-c8792d7fc266/ “I've had the same people working for me forever at my, my hedge fund. So it's kind of like one of those dichotomies, you know, that people view” — David Tepper, NFL on ESPN Fri, 06 Feb 2026 18:53:22 +0000 management David Friedberg: Friedberg requires every hiring request at Ohalo to include a paragraph explaining why AI can https://minutesof.com/q/0d98cd35-bb0b-4b64-9fe0-02baafb2b89e/ https://minutesof.com/q/0d98cd35-bb0b-4b64-9fe0-02baafb2b89e/ “Ask those questions. And so maybe every job description that needs to get approved by leadership, and the first paragraph is, why aren't you using AI?” — David Friedberg, This Week in Startups Thu, 22 May 2025 16:00:06 +0000 management David Friedberg: Friedberg mandates managers justify headcount requests by first explaining why AI cannot acco https://minutesof.com/q/6f0d6daa-55c6-4ac7-8228-c5caf5b982b3/ https://minutesof.com/q/6f0d6daa-55c6-4ac7-8228-c5caf5b982b3/ “So for example, when anyone asks for head count, ask them, Why can't AI do the job? Right.” — David Friedberg, This Week in Startups Thu, 22 May 2025 16:00:06 +0000 management Jensen Huang: Huang argues feedback should be public because everyone should learn from one person's mistakes. https://minutesof.com/q/0d4b48aa-a4de-496e-a1ff-45ad73094cb6/ https://minutesof.com/q/0d4b48aa-a4de-496e-a1ff-45ad73094cb6/ “Now, you created the conditions because of some mistake that you made or silliness that you brought upon yourself. We should all learn from that opportunity.” — Jensen Huang, Stripe Tue, 21 May 2024 19:46:22 +0000 management Jensen Huang: Huang says 60 direct reports removes seven organizational layers and gives everyone equal inform https://minutesof.com/q/733b037d-7e6e-4179-ba40-4f9d3da28869/ https://minutesof.com/q/733b037d-7e6e-4179-ba40-4f9d3da28869/ “Number two, if the CEO's direct staff is 60 people, the number of layers you've removed in a company is probably something like seven,” — Jensen Huang, Stripe Tue, 21 May 2024 19:46:22 +0000 management Bill Gurley: Gurley argues management treats stock-based compensation as if it's free, unlike cash expenditure https://minutesof.com/q/a1bca6c2-2983-49f4-a0c7-1cf1e734186f/ https://minutesof.com/q/a1bca6c2-2983-49f4-a0c7-1cf1e734186f/ “I personally think management is a lot more, thoughtful about cash expenditures, and I think they think about this SBC as if it's free almost.” — Bill Gurley, CNBC Television Mon, 11 Sep 2023 16:11:42 +0000 management Bill Gurley: Gurley advises against small layoffs of five or ten percent because they cause cultural pain with https://minutesof.com/q/bd9e4749-3a17-485d-aa30-7ac85f06bff3/ https://minutesof.com/q/bd9e4749-3a17-485d-aa30-7ac85f06bff3/ “One piece of advice though is never do a five or 10% layoff because it doesn't create any meaningful gain, yet you go through all the excruciating cultural pain.” — Bill Gurley, Invest Like the Best Fri, 13 Mar 2020 09:30:00 +0000 management Bill Gurley: Gurley argues most great leaders delegate because no one can be expert in everything at scale. https://minutesof.com/q/599621c3-1f8d-4c04-9cc8-9743043ab56c/ https://minutesof.com/q/599621c3-1f8d-4c04-9cc8-9743043ab56c/ “I think there are very few great leaders. If you were to just take a picture of a whole bunch of great leaders, most of them are good at delegation, getting other people to make decisions because organizations are so large, and no one has the capacity to be an expert in so many things.” — Bill Gurley, Bloomberg Originals Fri, 26 Aug 2011 00:33:21 +0000 management