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Howard Lindzon

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“But my imposter syndrome is born of, of course, I have an ego, but my imposter syndrome is surrounded by crazy people who are mistaking, as I was talking to Tim O'Brien, if this was, we went from a world where strength mattered not that long ago. This matters. Right. No. And I'm like, people just, the humility is gone”
2026-05-08 · Masters in Business · Winning the Degenerate Economy with StockTwits CEO Howard Lindzon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Of course, but the era was free. You had a great financial crisis. No one thought the internet was going to happen. So, meaning Uber couldn't be possible without Google Maps. Like people say Uber is great. It wasn't possible unless there was an iPhone, the cloud.”
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“I'm saying But now it doesn't matter. You have to have real tech chops again. You can't pose like I am. Like, I have imposter syndrome for the right reasons. Because I'm an emboster, meaning the internet left a little opening in 2006 for goofballs. And we got to participate in an era. Free growth when Facebook didn't charge you or have an AI algorithm that blocked you. You could say whatever you want and people go, he's funny. And you could scale for free, which is why we had an internet boom Web 2.0 internet boom right after the internet crash. Now, we live in an era where those people are confusing their genius for a bull market. Right. We're all sick of those people.”
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“Kind of fell. I found the goofball era. Web2 was the goofball era where you and I were social media. You could be the class clown and have scale.”
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“I'm not a coder. I don't even know how things work. I never did radio shock. Right. Right. Like, so like walkie-talkies were freaking me out. So the odds of me being in tech are part of the comedy Full circle, we are now back in a tech world, robots, chips, like real stuff, cool.”
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“It's a great question. My own laws are in their 80s and they still ask me, what do we tell people you do? And I'm like, who the hell cares? And the world's now decided that for you. No one cares. So, what do you do, right? Like, I think we're getting back into where you should be proud to have a, what do you call it, profession? I don't have a profession. So you asked how I got started as an investing. I got started as investing because I failed at everything else. Which is kind of the Larry David part of it, is like I stumble into it because the internet is like water. It'd be like discovering California. Like internet was like tech. So the 90s were like, I didn't understand, it was semiconductors. We're full circle, right?”
2026-05-08 · Masters in Business · Winning the Degenerate Economy with StockTwits CEO Howard Lindzon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Correct. New York too. So you asked how that happened. That's the rite of passage. Instead of trying to Florida my whole life. I jumped to the west coast, and then I discovered San Diego through my in-laws and my wife. And man. Well, you've been to Coronado. Oh, yeah, it's lovely.”
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“The thing about, and I do like Florida a lot, but same as you six hours, like Phoenix or San Diego, Florida is like not on the map. No brain, all right? No, no one does it. Like it's not a thing, right?”
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“We grew up Coronado. I've not grew up. Sorry, my in laws had a place in Coronado. And so when we had kids, I'm like, get out of the heat. If you're not rich.”
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“To my dad, obviously, that's the way he's taught. Yeah, so that's why he discovered Phoenix and bought a home. And I liked golf and biking. And so lucky for me, we had a, I went to, instead of going to Florida, we were going to Arizona. And so I would go to the football games as a kid, and I was like, ASU, that was my dream. Just go to Arizona State University, which I ended up. Doing for grad school, which isn't a great grad school, but it's party school, but that was my dream get out of Canada. So I got lucky, my parents exposed me to Arizona. And I went to ASU at the time. It was amazing. And then if you're Jewish in Phoenix. Because the It's like New York goes to Florida in the winter, Jewish people in Phoenix go to San Diego in the summer to get out of the right. Right.”
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“Because if you're Jewish in Toronto or New York at that area, you go to Florida. The original Del Boca Vista. But my dad was different and he discovered Phoenix. And so in the 80s, like a Phoenix was like swamp coolers and he just liked the weather and I don't know.”
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“You don't have 10,000 hours. You don't have to live in motel. Go do 10,000 hours. Yeah. The faster you get those 10,000 hours in, the better.”
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“Yes. But I'm saying now if my son came to me and said, I'm going to go hit the comedy tour, I'd warn him how dark it is. But I'd say, go make it. Go on YouTube.”
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“And so that was the goal. And obviously, you know, with Jewish parents at the time, that ain't flying. Especially I wasn't good. And so I went to school.”
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“And so everybody wanted to be a comic. No different than the Web 2.0. Everybody went to Stanford to be an engineer. In 90s it was investment banking. Now it'll be robots and AI. It's just what's in the water. And I grew up with comedy in the water.”
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“Yeah, everybody exploding onto the scene at the same time. And so I was doing stand up in high school. Get out. But not good, obviously. But Mike Myers would come up.”
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“So I'm like 12 years old giggling, you know, and there was no internet. So you were like, go to the comedy clubs with your friends. Toronto had this club was called yak-yucks, which was a famous chain, like the improv, but of Canada. And you had Mike Myers.”
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“You saw everybody, and it was like your living room. And so Toronto had Second City. He had John Candy, Martin Short, Eugene Levy. Second City was before Saturday Night Live. And so I grew up to surround.”
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“No, Martin, he was already older, but I grew up in Toronto and that was when I was 75 watching Johnny Carson on my first TV.”
2026-05-08 · Masters in Business · Winning the Degenerate Economy with StockTwits CEO Howard Lindzon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, there's great stories. If you're a storyteller, cut a finger off. I mean, if you want traffic on Twitter, bleed out.”
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“No, not prosic. If you just want to work with a nub. It's only a third of the finger. So, anyways, it was traumatic, but here we are.”
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“It feels like if I'm using it, it just feels like a And so I'm not happy. But the doctor was like, you can decide later. You want to prostrate.”
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“Yeah, I have 10 fingers for now. The joke in the family is I don't want it because it's kind of like a dead finger at this point.”
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“Yeah, yeah, yeah. As a favorite of my wife, I went to the neighbors to bleed. So it was like the next day, it was spotless in front of our house. But, um, As Luck would have, everybody did a great job, the amazing thing we make fun of so many things in America these days, the emergency system. I needed it. I don't care what I pay in taxes. It was amazing.”
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“The young, I've never really had to be in an ambulance. So again, I'm lucky. And they took me off island because they found a hand surgeon who turned out to be 30 years old, which freaked me out because I thought he'd sew it on backwards or whatever. Anyways, long story short. I was at peace. Once you realize you're going to live. because I've never had that happen like something like that happen”
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“They do. But I'm saying there's cops and firemen everywhere. Everywhere, right. So literally as I'm dialing 911, it's like they knew I cut my finger off. So as a miracle would have it.”
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“Good advice. I'm like, the one 911, I go, let's not talk. Get me a machine over to my house. Get me a robot. So living in Coronado is a magical place. You've been there a couple of times. And the great news about Coronado is the Navy-based Navy SEALs are there. It's like it's the greatest place. They have a hospital.”
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“Did you cook it? I don't know if you freeze it. It's like lobster. So the woman of 911 said, please don't bleed out. I go, that is not helpful right now.”
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“You pick it up, you call 911, and you go, as a Jew, I wasn't sure if I boil it or freeze it. So that was the question I asked him on one because this never happened.”
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