Who is on this subjectordered by the date of their first quote here
5 of 6 lanes rest on fewer than 5 quotes and are marked thin. Offsets are days from the middle first-quote date, 19 Aug 2012 — a date, and nothing else. It is not a claim about who reached a view first.
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Bill Gurley
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1 Oct 2010 – 14 Mar 2026
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David Friedberg
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8 Oct 2011 – 12 May 2026
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- Sir Richard Dearlove 1 thin 19 Aug 2012 – 19 Aug 2012 +0 d
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Brad Gerstner
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12 Feb 2025 – 12 Feb 2025
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Howard Marks
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7 Sep 2025 – 12 Jun 2026
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- JD Vance 3 thin 21 Aug 2026 – 24 Aug 2026 +5115 d
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“the number of IPOs, as Michael mentioned, have been 30 in the first half of this year versus five in 'eight and twelve in 'nine.”
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David Friedberg
Friedberg states the odds of building a billion-dollar company are 0.0006%, yet that's what gets all the attention.
“The odds of the guy of being the guy on the left are according to a study and I put the URL up there, point 0006%.”
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Sir Richard Dearlove
Dearlove warns that in Egypt, 44% of the population is illiterate and lives on under $2 daily.
“Bear in mind when you're talking about Egypt, forty four percent of the population is illiterate and exists on less than $2 a day.”
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David Friedberg
Friedberg states 800 million people live on under 1,200 calories daily, up from 500-600 million pre-COVID.
“today on planet Earth, there's about 800,000,000 people worldwide that still live on less than 1,200 calories a day. They are technically deemed malnourished by the UN, by the FAO.”
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Brad Gerstner
Gerstner cites 401(k) programs hold $13 trillion with $75 billion contributed annually as model.
“The four zero one k program in this country now has $13,000,000,000,000 in it. 75,000,000,000 is contributed annually.”
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Howard Marks
Marks states that 99% of startups and 90% of venture capital investments fail despite high return potential.
“something like probably 99% of all startups fail, probably something like 90% of all the investments that venture capital funds make fail.”
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David Friedberg
Friedberg notes college administrators grew from 10% to 60% of staff over thirty years due to unlimited loans.
“My salary will go from $1.30 to 200 if I become a manager and hire four people. Fast forward thirty years, 10% of staff as administrators to 60% of staff as administrators.”
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Bill Gurley
Gurley cites current employee engagement at fifteen-year lows with 58% disengaged and some actively undermining organizations.
“58% of people say they're not engaged at work. 15 of those 58 say they're quiet quitting. These are horrible numbers.”
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Bill Gurley
Gurley cites Stanford research showing 40% of people shift away from their college major within four to five years.
“But a lot of people do. There's Dave Evans at Stanford who does the Designing Your Life class and book, you know, they highlight that like four years, five years out, 40% of people are no longer doing the work that was in their major.”
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Bill Gurley
Gurley cites 2023 Gallup poll showing only 23% feel engaged at work, 59% quiet quitting.
“Gallup did a poll in 2023 where only 23% of people feel engaged at work. And they qualified like 59% as quiet quitting.”
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Bill Gurley
Gurley's Wharton survey found six out of ten people would choose a different career if starting over.
“I launched a survey on SurveyMonkey that said, if you could go back and start over, would you would you do a different career? And seven out of 10 people said yes.”
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Bill Gurley
Gurley cites research showing forty percent leave their major field within five years, increasing further at ten years.
“five years after college, forty percent of people are no longer working in the field that was their major. And that number gets bigger at 10.”
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David Friedberg
Friedberg describes Koch Industries as a family business founded in 1940 with 120,000 employees across diverse sectors in 60 countries.
“It's a family owned business based out of Wichita founded in 1940 by Fred Koch with businesses ranging from energy, agriculture, chemicals, building products, consumer products, even cloud computing, and a very active minority investment portfolio a 120,000 plus employees, that statistic might be off across 60 countries.”
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Howard Marks
Marks reports roughly 700 direct lending managers now manage $1.7 trillion in a favorable economy that made many extremely successful.
“So the the the And the availability of that $1,700,000,000,000 put a lot of people into business and made a lot of people extremely successful along with a very favorable economy”
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JD Vance
Vance claims all net job growth in the past eighteen months went to native-born Americans, reversing a four-year trend.
“Do you know that all net job growth over the past eighteen months went to native born Americans, reversing a trend for four years where it all went to other people?”
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“We're currently experiencing in The United States Of America the largest reduction in violent crime in the history of our country, homicides.”
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JD Vance
Vance states homicides have fallen to their lowest level in 126 years.
“homicides in this country plummeted to their lowest levels in a hundred and twenty six years.”
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