Jonathan Ross

“It is the same restless pattern behind every founder worth studying, from Jonathan Ross running the math himself...”

“The $20B NVIDIA deal didn't emerge from a negotiation process. It emerged because the working prototype already existed. Ross had integrated GPUs and LPUs for 3–4 months before the call with Jensen Huang. The deal closed in three weeks because the engineering gave Huang nothing to doubt.”

“Referenced as opportunity one that Ross's team 'said it would fail' on, leading him to be talked out of it. Ross personally missed two major opportunities (including a GitHub CEO inquiry about LLM code completion) because he deferred to team pessimism.”

“If you express intentional leadership, you say, I intend to do this. People don't tend to offer their opinion, but if it's very wrong, and there's a reason, they will push back.”

“Jim Collins's Return on Luck thesis says the best companies capture more of the breaks they get, rather than getting more breaks.”

“At the moment, I'm discontent with the lack of compute in the world... Every single person who dies from cancer, every single person who becomes old and infirm and dies, there could come a point where AI comes up with ways to slow aging. All of that I feel is kind of on my shoulders.”