Auren Hoffman Quotes

one of the benefits of having an odd name is that it is very unlikely you will share a name with a major hurricane

Most people think low-EQ people are robots (just cost-benefit weighing machines) that don’t care as much about other humans.

But there does not seem to be any correlation between EQ and actually caring deeply about others. High-EQ people are just better at showing they care.

if data is the new oil, then unstructured data is shale.

because unstructured data is becoming easier and easier to work with

The more connected a dataset is to other data elements, the more valuable it is. And the easier it is to link your data, the more valuable it becomes. The reason for this is simple: data is only as useful as the questions it can help answer. Joining, linking, and graphing datasets together allows one to ask more and different kinds of questions.

as you get older, the amount of the known gets smaller

if the CEO of a company is writing a novel, short the stock

optimism is a form of positive leverage

venture capital is actually team sport.
the Midas Award goes to a person, not a firm. that’s insane and will change.

two types of wealthy people:

1. have a few brilliant insights and also do a lot of stupid things
2. avoid doing stupid things and have average insights

it is really easy to do the later, very hard to do the former

one of the most frustrating things is seeing people that clearly are not reaching potential because they are not working hard enough

the biggest mistake most people make when they hire someone talented – they delegate too much, too quickly. Remember, each thing that you delegate takes your time (and the time of the person you delegated to).

data business are like the babies of one SaaS parent (like Salesforce), one API parent (like Twilio), and one compute parent (like AWS).

yes -- data businesses have three parents ... they are that weird.

when someone tells you "no one's ever lost money doing X," that's usually a sure sign someone's about to lose money doing X

my goal as an angel investor is to be the company's number one SDR

value of human life is a tough concept, but it’s a reality that exists and easy to see in the data (what gov spends for safety improvements, etc)

a statistical life in the US is worth about $10m….the value of a life in a poor country is about $100,000. 100x difference.