Brad Stroh - entrepreneur and CEO (https://xitter.gq/t.co/nUk5zacvef & https://xitter.gq/t.co/PFsLZy20hp), advisor, author, coach, husband & dad. Getting better every day. Having fun!
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Joined December 2008
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“If you cannot be corrected without being offended, then you’ll never truly grow in life.”
— Richard Feynman
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Interest on the national debt topped $1 trillion this fiscal year.
That’s $87 billion more than we spent on defense.
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I regret to inform you that everything matters. Small things become big things. You don't get to pick and choose when to show up, because the world will ignore your best and judge you for your worst. The one who brings energy every single day will win. Because everything matters.
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BCG: "Global fintech revenues surpassed half a trillion dollars in 2025, growing 22% year over year. That also means fintechs outgrew traditional financial services four-fold and now account for approximately 4% of total global financial services revenue".
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"20 years from now, the only people who will remember that you worked late are your kids."
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Lots of VCs kindof sound like this: "Your basketball team doesn't have a moat, any healthy human can throw the ball into the basket thingy. "
People who have not run companies before don't understand how much the team matters more than some imagined structural moat.
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In the last week of September, DeepSeek models processed more tokens on OpenRouter than OpenAI, Google, Anthropic and xAI models combined.
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GET THE RIGHT GUYS ON THE BUS!
"Mediocre people don’t like high achievers and high achievers don’t like mediocre people ... Get the right guys on the bus, get them in the right seats, and get the wrong guys off the bus."
~ Nick Saban video from @TheCrimsonWhite
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BREAKING: 30-year Treasury yield hits 5.367%, on track for its highest settlement since June 2004.
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I’m convinced 90% of a founder's job is to just do 3 things:
- be delusional in your optimism
- push everyone to move faster
- make it crystal clear what to work on
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Michael Moritz on the importance of storytelling in business.
My conversation with Michael Moritz, one of the great venture investors of the last 40 years.
Michael joined Sequoia in 1986 and co-led the firm with Doug Leone (@dougleone) from 1995 to 2012. His investments include Google, Yahoo, PayPal, and Stripe.
His new book, Ausländer, traces his parents' escape from Nazi Germany and helps explain his lifelong interest in what shapes exceptional people.
We discuss:
- The infamous Steve Jobs profile
- Why Don Valentine hired him
- The question he finds most revealing when interviewing people
- Monomania and the cost of greatness
- Why he has never felt good at anything
- Writing, journalism and AI
- What he learned about himself writing Ausländer
I'd recommend watching this one if you can. Michael was incredibly thoughtful and reflective throughout, particularly when talking about his parents, childhood, and the more difficult parts of his personal story.
Enjoy!
TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro
0:53 Family History & Identity
7:03 Survival & Outsider Instinct
18:53 Studying Exceptional People
33:50 Self-Doubt & Success
41:17 Steve Jobs & Obsession
52:50 Joining Sequoia
1:03:22 Leadership & Alex Ferguson
1:08:25 Elon Musk & AI
1:17:12 Becoming Who You Are
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China’s holdings of US Treasuries have fallen to the lowest since August 2008. ft.com/content/69f02abc-e0dc…
