Episode of My First Million with Sam Parr and Shaan Puri.
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Kind: captions Language: en i had this thought oh this is what it would have been like to talk to bill gates at 21. yeah i feel like i could rule the world i know i could be what i want to i put my law in it like no days off on the road let’s travel never looking back so this episode is gonna be it might be shorter than normal right yeah i think so okay i wanted i just drove uh like 30 hours and i listened to a ton of content i want to tell you sean about some of the stuff that i listen to and why it’s interesting is that what you want to do for this entire episode yeah let’s do it and i’m sure you’ll have some stuff um uh that you’ve consumed okay the first one i found this podcast that has like actually let’s see how many reviews i think like no reviews i think i emailed the guy he’s amazing but uh it’s called how to take over the world we should just have this guy we should just absorb this guy’s uh podcast we need to acquire this guy’s podcast this should just be on our feed wait did you did you listen to it no i’m just looking at the description of it and then the gems that you just told me and i’m like this should be part of mfm this is great it’s amazing this guy he uh he it’s like his hobby and he really he they’re so in-depth so it’s called how to take over the world what i think he’s doing is you know a lot of biographies of great people like napoleon uh julius caesar the raw child they’re like 800 to a thousand pages so it’s like a real commitment to read it so he just reads it and he takes notes in one episode he did one on napoli and he goes i have 60 paper thomas edison he goes i have 60 pages of notes and he just reads the book and takes notes and then just explains and tells stories from the book and does it in chronological chronological order and it’s basically turns if you listen to a thousand page book on audio on audible it’s something like 40 or 50 hours but with him i just listened to this two-hour podcast and i feel like i’ve just read most of the book it’s pretty amazing but he also gives his analysis about it and so i listened to a few of them i listened to one on edison one on napoleon and one of the rothschild rothschilds and there’s three commonalities that i want to tell you about these guys so do you know who rothschild is rothschild am i saying that right yeah so basically it was started by this guy named angel rothschild in the 1700s he basically built like the amazon of of this his little ghetto in in germany where he would sell like he would mail you an item and if you wanted it you would send him money and it wasn’t like that big but eventually he started he grew that over 50 years and started investing in stuff and then his kids started the goldman sachs of of europe so it was like a long uh slow build up to building this family business so i’m gonna tell you three things that i’ve noticed that these folks had in common the first all of them enjoyed their work so there’s a story where nathan rothschild this um this one woman was talking to him he’s like you know i hope you better hope that your kids aren’t addicted to work like you are and he goes oh no i hope they are because i love what i’m doing and i don’t ever want to stop uh same with napoleon someone said napoleon what what’s your heritage what race are you he goes i’m of the race of men who found empires [Laughter] uh like they’re addicted to it like they love it they they can’t they can’t not do it same with edison edison he was like nice to his kids and nice to his wife but he was really never around and they called he called his um uh his studio which was in menlo park i believe it’s called miller park in new jersey and they said that it looked like a homeless encampment because there’s these men in suits but they were just like laying around on the floor and sleeping there because they would do their best work from midnight to 6 a.m and they would just sleep below under their desk and they’re like well why are you doing this he’s like because there’s so much to do and we love it like we can’t not do this so they all enjoyed their work the second thing crazy crazy high energy so super high energy so the napoleon he went to egypt to go conquer something and on his way he stopped in like some island where he like reorganized the government in three weeks and he and he changed their currency just they all have crazy high energy and that’s something that i didn’t actually think was a big deal but they all had crazy high energy now here’s the third thing that i found to be kind of interesting a lot of the successful people that i’m learning about on this podcast they eat very very very little so like edison would only drink milk sometimes for months steve jobs for months for months milk steve dude do you remember steve jobs how he had a fruit yeah i was gonna say he’s a fruitarian or whatever it was the same thing he used to only eat like lunch and it was just fruit you know or something like that for a period of time rockefeller or rockefeller and vanderbilt were this way too like in their first in like the it was it’s all when they’re all described like look he ate very little typically didn’t eat breakfast ate very little they’re all like physically hungry and that physical hungry hunger some it does actually seem like it leads to some type of like success does that so so um yeah okay so let me give you my take on all three of these so you said uh they really enjoyed their work like their work feels like plays the way i would describe it where they didn’t feel like they were forcing themselves to do something they couldn’t wait to go keep doing it i would also say there’s an obsession there now like it’s like i’m obsessed with stuff like is that do i enjoy it i don’t know if i enjoy it but like i the ocd forces you there’s an obsession so there’s a conor mcgregor fight this saturday and he has a great kind of like monologue from back when he was a nobody but he was talking about it he goes he goes i’ve lost my mind to this game he goes i think you must do that i think you must become obsessed you want to lose your mind to your craft and i’ve seen that as like a common thing for a lot of people and and that actually relates to the eight very little a lot of time you get so engrossed in what you’re doing that you just forget to eat you forget to go to the restroom you forget what time it is you forget the cl you know what you should sleep or you forget to pay that bill because you become completely obsessed and engrossed in what you’re doing and you get in in a flow state really and in a flow state you um you sort of block out a lot of the other stuff that’s going on and so i think that’s that’s those two sort of go hand in hand um and then the high energy i’m curious what that means to you so that’s like it doesn’t mean like you’re bouncing off the walls right yeah that’s what i imagine what did you mean no it doesn’t mean that you’re bouncing off the walls but for example when i go and when i’m at a conference um like let’s say it’s my conference or let’s say it’s uh at our at our talk that we did the other day how did you feel at the end of that the live shows yeah uh i felt kind of drained i felt drained i felt exhausted yeah but what i think like what i think high energy means is i felt just so worn out then but i think that some people they would feel good and they’d be like all right let’s go like get some more deals done let’s go invest like like like i invest a little bit of money but if i was a full-time investor you’re doing deals all day and for me by like four or five o’clock i’m like ugh i can’t talk to another person i’m exhausted i can’t think about this anymore but i’ve seen some people that can do it all day and they just aren’t worn out and they just keep going and going and going and going right that’s what i mean yeah i i’m with you on that um yeah okay i think this is cool and i like the um the study of of the sort of study of greatness and what i’ve also found is that like we’ve talked about this before it’s like would you want to be elon musk would you want to be like basically this stuff comes at a pretty big sacrifice um for other things in life family often um you know relationships you know it’s hard to relate to people or spend time with friends or anything like that if you’re doing this so when you so i’m like you i like digesting these i like knowing it but then over time i’ve learned that like the goal is not to be steve jobs or a collective jobs or anything i just kind of am fascinated by it in the same way that like i’m fascinated about how you know a rhinoceros moves and eats and i don’t necessarily want to be a rhinoceros i just find it interesting that it’s extreme creature i love freaks i like the freak show and these guys are freak shows i also love bold people i admire anyone who’s bold so for example i was reading a book about steve mcqueen he was just an actor like he didn’t change the world he probably didn’t work that hard but he was like known for like saying his opinion and he like lived a very like free life that and it’s like in the same field i like these people i like men who will who do what they say and they say like things that are different than other people but then also i love these freak shows like napoleon now let’s actually talk about each of these thomas edison like elon a bunch of divorces one of his wives died from a morphine overdose his kids didn’t really like him or get to know him that well even though he was like a kind guy but he was never around napoleon died on an island because they kicked him out and he died basically with nothing alone in an island off the coast of africa rothschild um he the the the i mean they were okay they actually had good ideas but um with a lot of successful people like this yeah you don’t actually want to be them necessarily yeah um okay so what else uh what else you got so you consume that what else you consume okay have you read uh naval’s almanac yeah shout out to um jack butcher no no uh uh eric right eric i think jorgensen is the last name yeah he was the main guy and jack animated whatever yeah oh there it is so naval has uh so it’s a two-part i actually don’t know how it came to be did naval just do a bunch of podcasts and interviews and he summarized naval’s feelings yeah basically so neval had been putting out his content for years different podcasts and stuff like that and a lot people like me and eric and others were big fans of it and what he did was he said all right uh you i don’t know if you’ve ever bought the book or have the book poor poor charlie’s almanac i think that’s what this is ripped off of which is charlie munger who’s warren buffett’s business partner it was like about charlie munger and so uh he tried to make you know if naval is one of the good great thinkers of our time then he tried to make the compilation of all the [ ] naval said he took it from all the times naval talked about wealth and they pulled it all together and put it all in one place and distilled it down and this book uh is broken into two parts the first is wealth the second is happiness i found the wealth stuff to be a little bit boring um i don’t even remember i i actually skipped over a lot of it i don’t even remember what he said about wealth do you yeah i mean i think it’s it’s the same thing that that we’ve talked about on here but he has this tweet storm that went ultra ultra viral like maybe i don’t know 50 to 100 million people have seen it by now and it’s called how to get rich without getting lucky and he talks about these four things i i mean i can go into it or i can skip it if you want to talk about it a little bit yeah basically his summary is like you know here’s some of the principles that over you know naval’s become very wealthy and over time he sort of learned for himself he wanted to be wealthy as a kid because he grew up pretty poor and he wanted to be wealthy and he wanted to be wealthy not in a way that required outlier luck and he says this great thing which is like you know i want to if i lived life 100 times i want to end up wealthy you know 98 uh 99 times or like if you took away all my wealth now and you drop me you know butt naked in in the streets of bangalore um i want to be able to again in five ten years end up rich again and so that means i actually understand the principles of how this is done and i’m not relying on unluck and so he talks about those principles and he basically says you know you want to have these like three or four things so first stop renting out your time you’ll never get rich renting out your time which is you know 90 something percent of people are employees somewhere you are basically renting your time to an employer and um you’ll never become wealthy or you rarely become wealthy with that path uh you become wealthy by owning a piece of a business either as an investor or as a business owner or as an employee who has shares like employees at google or facebook who have seen you know gotten a lot of wealth by the appreciation of those shares and so um then he talks about you know how do you how do you get to that point well you need a few things you want um you know use what you call specific knowledge which is basically like like sam you know how to grow a newsletter you know how to write content you know copywriting right you know certain things and so you need specific knowledge then you pair that with accountability so you want to do it in the name of the hustle or sam or some brand that accrues that reputation so you want to put your name on the line and say i’m going to do this thing and so that when you do it you get paid for it you know the people at the hustle who write your daily newsletter but are less well known they actually have certain skills they have certain unique knowledge specific but they don’t have the account they’re not putting up the accountability they’re not living and dying by the sword of this news that are working or not um maybe inside the company they are but not externally and then you have leverage so you know back in the day if you wrote something you would maybe distribute it locally on your newspaper or on a flyer or something like that but with the internet you have leverage where you can put this in an email and you can send it you can put the same amount of work in to write the email once you can send it to 100 000 people a million people or 10 million people it’s the same amount of work because you have tremendous leverage through technology and so basically he talks about like use these three things get specific knowledge be accountable put your name on the line that way you get the risk and the reward and lastly apply leverage to maximize the the value that you get out of the thing that’s kind of the basic formula and the whole book basically um is broken down to this idea of life is about health wealth and happiness or sorry wealth health happiness and he says we actually pursue it we go we pursue wealth then we do health then we do happiness and he’s like that’s actually a fine way to pursue it it’s that’s a very practical and fine way to pursue it the reality is is that it’s the reverse is true like in terms of importance so it’s happening happiness health wealth but it’s whatever it’s finding pursue that way and he has this beautiful line in the book where he says something like um of course once you get the wealth you’re gonna see that it’s actually not nearly as important as you thought but you’re not gonna listen to me and you have to pretty much discover it on your own yeah you’re not gonna listen to me i wouldn’t have listened to me um you know the type of person who’s attracted to this content you know they they’re going to go through the same thing you have to learn that the hard way and so that was pretty interesting so i liked that but the second half is all about happiness and there was a few things that kind of stuck stuck out to me the first is that um he basically acknowledged he he was like look don’t worry well then let me preface this by saying neval interests me because he’s like i mean he’s probably a billionaire i have to imagine he started angelus which is a multi-billion dollar company he’s an investor like he’s in the game and he acknowledges like i’m in the game and so like this is a little bit hypocritical but basically he was like what i found is that a happiness must be a choice like i’ve been unhappy for decades and then i decided you know i’m going to be happy and he steals a lot of philosophy from stoicism and he steals a lot of it from buddha buddhism and the idea here is that like your past is unimportant and the future is unimportant and to say that you want to do x y and z for legacy that’s [ ] because what’s going to happen is when you die it’s going to be as if you were you know if it’s the same feeling that you had before you were born which is like nothing so like who cares about some [ ] legacy which is like hard to fight against right uh but and he’s like it only matters about the about the present and where you are now and that gets a little bit fluffy but i still thought it was really useful and oddly did you if you read the book he talks about not working hard he was like you actually should only do work that feels like play yeah and i thought that was kind of cool and he’s like life’s too short by the way just to grind and work your ass off which again i’m like button of all you’re like a billionaire like is this like what you know how do you i have to like kind of come to grasp it with us a little bit but i thought it was cool he also talks about um very oddly gives diet advice he’s like just don’t eat sugar stay away from sugar do high intensity interval training and stretch a lot yeah and he even says he goes uh i try not to he’s like you know i don’t talk too much about health because i’m pretty good at health i’m okay but i’m not self-actualized in that meaning like in wealth he’s done better than 99.9 percent of people uh so you know for him to talk about it well he’s self-actualized it he has actually done it uh for himself and seen it done by many other people and so he feels comfortable putting out his whole philosophy on it he’s like in terms of health like i’ll say some general things that you you know it’s hard to argue against but i try not to talk too much about it even though it’s very important because i myself you know for many years didn’t have an exercise routine or wasn’t you know the best eater and now i’m better but i’m still not the best i’m not world class at that i’m not 99.9 percent at that one i’ll i could tell one story so i called a friend and and this is almost like stuff i’ve read or listened to in the last like four days which is a lot but i want i i i had a friend and this is all related to what this is related to what we talked about earlier about crazy people i love freaks and i had a friend call and tell me about their best friend and let me tell you this story so there’s this guy i’m gonna change some details i don’t want to reveal it he was an accountant and on some large deals that he was working on at the age of like 30 he was able to save up one to two million dollars i think it was two million dollars at the age of 30. he was single he lived relatively frugally but he worked on some he worked at a big company he was just an employee but he worked on such a deal that he was able to capture like some of the commissions and he made like two million bucks with that two million dollars he angel invested a little bit and one of his angel investments made like half a million dollars and so here he is sitting with like two and a half to three million dollars at the age of mid 30s okay so about last 20 months ago when was bitcoin six thousand dollars yeah about about a year and a half two years ago or no sorry when it was three thousand whatever it was he put three million dollars into bitcoin everything he had everything 100 of everything he had to the point of like i think he like saved 10 000 or 20 thousand dollars for living expenses he put most everything he had and also he borrowed money i don’t i’m not uh he was able to borrow money uh somehow like through like like as simple as like robin hood gives you a little bit of margin but he was able to borrow money to the point of like he was in debt a significant amount of money and he bought a ton of bitcoin well last december when it hit 65 or 63 000 his 3 million turned into around 100 million dollars and he sold about half of it so he’s got like this cushion and then he up and left and moved to another country and he lives there because he’s like you know i’m just i believe that like this country is the future and the point of this story is i’m not like this crazy person i don’t think you are either you have a family you’re not going to up and move them although you will take interesting bets but and i recognize i am not this human being i am so thankful that crazy people like this exist not for our amusement necessarily but like the world need like his boldness was like rooted in some type of selfishness he wants to get risk rig it rich but that type of boldness even though this may not be the best but that personality type is what pushes society forward and actually does weird crazy stuff that ends up becoming normal and common for us right dude i don’t know if i i don’t think this is uncommon but i feel special the way i feel special that i’m this way but i know this is actually most people i think but i [ ] love uh greatness in any field like you could just be like hey um you play billiards i’m like no check this out this person is the best in the world at billiards tell me more i stop watching them i’ll watch them for eight hours straight i’ll then go watch the documentary about them and then i’ll go find like you know the book about them and i’ll just keep going deep because there’s something about greatness that um is just so like attractive to me and so recently uh do you watch the tv show dave of course i like uh what’s the guy’s name the rest of ricky yeah little dicky so dave is a show that i started watching and i love dave dave is like a hilarious show to me and it’s like a very unique show right uh and it’s not like most tv shows it’s not made like most tv shows it uses like everybody’s real names it’s like kind of set in hollywood it’s this guy’s story of trying to be a big rapper which is his real story and then it’s kind of like he’s not like it’s not entourage where he’s just like cool and cool [ ] keeps happening models keep throwing themselves at him it’s like the opposite uh he’s kind of like a nerdy jewish guy who happens to be an aspiring rapper and you know things happen to him that are not so great all the time and so um i just love this dude this dude is he’s so talented he’s very talented as a rapper if you haven’t listened to the little dicky sway freestyle we should put that whole freestyle at the end of this episode dan do that just grab the whole audio for that free style and put it at the end of this one where he gives the girl flowers he gives her flowers exactly um that freestyle is amazing although i mean obviously it’s not an actual freestyle and then um you know to be to then go into like how he marketed himself so he’s a former ad agency guy who got his job at an agency and was like writing a rap song for like doritos to like win the client win the gig when the account then leaves to go become an actual rapper he his story is kind of like he uh he works for a long time on his album doesn’t show anyone has no results to show for it kind of like runs out of time and money doing this and then like launches his first music video and it like goes viral because he had put so much work into his craft of like making this work and he’s completely authentic right so like back to a navalism escape competition through authenticity most of the things you want occur in very competitive spaces and the answer is not to try to out-compete everybody by being better because everybody’s trying to be better the way to do it is to be different the way to be different the easiest way to be different is to be completely you because nobody can be better at you than you you’ve been you your whole life you have a lifetime of experience at it and so similarly for dave uh he his niche in rapping is like being you know an awkward white guy rapper just kind of growing through life trying to get with women and failing sometimes and sometimes succeeding and et cetera et cetera um and so i think this guy is so impressive to me and so i love finding these like you know whether it’s in the ufc that’s why i love conor mcgregor and his rise because early on i was like this guy seems like he’s full of greatness and then you see it play out and you’re like wow that was uh dave in the rap scene so this look and you’re talking about this with edison and some of the books that you can naval like some of the the content you’re consuming um i don’t know like what do you think are we kind of like are we unique in this or is this i feel like everybody loves greatness right but is there something different i don’t think it’s the same i i think that i think it’s because we have a privilege we’ve been privileged in that you and i have seen people who have we have seen like dozens of people accomplish things that a most people like like hear rumors about or movies about like no i know this person they and a lot of them it’s financial but you know they sold their company they made 500 million dollars like we know many people have done that and so we like we first hand know like man greatness is real and you could self-actualize we know it’s real the second thing is we know people that have created or invented or worked on things that everyone else takes for granted and you’re like dude you have no idea what it takes to like uh to have like made that a reality it just it’s so impressive and i think that um because of that yeah we like appreciate bold people who are also capable right and so i think a lot of people are like that but not that many people for example when i go to a convenience store and there’s like a sign taped to the door i’m like do you have any [ ] pride fix that [ ] like put a proper frame like do this the right way it’d like be the best that’s why i test you to test lack of greatness i can’t stand that but like but you know there’s a reason why like we’re not the only ones there’s a reason why jiro what’s that jiro love sushi or zero sushi yeah yeah like or like nike nike’s old marketing is not about the rubber in their shoes it’s about like great athletes because everybody loves great athletes uh that’s the easy one that everybody loves no i i i but i like it like when i look at like i don’t care about weightlifting but i look weightlifter i’m like dude the gay look how this guy’s like weighing his food every single day and getting up at 5 30 like just for the like i just i i love that so we’ll um let me move on to one more thing but uh yeah i do i love greatness and i’ll tell you these last two things that i’ve read one point on that i would say definitely a lot of good has come has come from being a fan of greatness but i would say try to be a fan of greatness not a fan of the people um and the reason i say that is because what often happens is when people get really into greatness they go study these people and then they they’re in their net conclusion is wow they’re great and they’re different than me and i they sort of like separate it’s almost like oh that’s a different species um and there’s a there’s a way to do this that’s better which is basically you take you get entertainment and inspiration from them and education from them of the things that they do but like don’t count yourself as something different treat yourself like that’s that’s you you’re them you’re you’re no different than them they are just like you they’re just you know made of the same things as had the same doubts as you had the same insecurities as you had the same struggles as you and uh and so like don’t like create this divide of the great people and then you because then it’s counterproductive then every time you you learn about their greatness it reinforces this kind of like negative perception of yourself instead if you think about yourself just like them then every time you learn about them it creates a positive reinforcement about what you can also do and i’ll tell you just the last few things that i consumed this week that made a difference the first is not or the last couple non-violent communication it’s real touchy feely you know what non-violent communication is i’ve never read it but i’ve heard about it yeah yeah it’s a way to speak uh in a way i guess i don’t know how would you explain it basically i have a problem like i suck at dealing with people like my emotions get the best of me i get angry at people and i communicate stuff and i’m like why am i getting angry like this is so counterproductive i do this with sarah i’ve done it with you before i’ve done it with all my co-workers i just communicate horribly so i’m actually trying to learn a better way to communicate a more effective way to communicate and this is like giving you a toolkit so it’s basically like it just gives you a better way to talk to people so you can give us one nugget from it so what’s one tweak dude it’s really hard like it’s so opposite of how i do things so if for example like like there’s like like okay so the there’s a lot someone who’s an expert on this is gonna like criticize me and how am i explaining it but it’s quite complicated for me because it’s so not normal but basically the idea here is like look i’m not gonna judge you for you telling me this i’m not going to get angry i’m not going to judge you but i actually just want to clarify like so you feel like this correct okay well what i need from you is x y and z are you able to like are we able to can i get that from you or no and then it’s like that type of like very like crystal clear and then like you’ll say things like look can you repeat back what you thought i said so for example um i’ll tell you to do something and i’ll say and you’ll say okay fine i’ll be like can you repeat back well you said if you don’t do this you’re going to yell it or you let me find a better example okay my wife and i we got into like an argument over i forget what we got into an argument over but i said um can you repeat back to me what you thought i said well you said it’s gonna piss you off if you if i do this again and i was like no i actually didn’t mean to express the idea of i’m gonna be angry at you it was just like it hurts my feelings when this happens right you know what i mean so it’s a different it’s a different way to communicate i’m not good at it this is why i’m reading this [ ] book clearly i can barely describe the damn thing the last thing or the second to last thing the courage to be disliked great book i started getting into it um because after naval and it’s just there’s a few takeaways here i’ll read the my four takeaways the first is it’s dangerous to believe that your passive term is your future i know it’s fluffy if you focus on what’s wrong with you you might be looking for reasons to hate yourself on purpose again fluffy third most of what we think is competition is just made up and is hurting your happiness and four this is like crazy woo-woo basically life is just a bunch of like sounds and lights and like the emotion we assign emotion to it and so you don’t actually like you can assign a happy emotion so that’s the last one and then the last article i read that made a big difference there’s this new yorker article written in 2014 about sam altman have you ever read this maybe i i like to study sam altman but i haven’t i don’t remember this one it’s written in 2016 a new yorker it’s called sam altman’s manifest destiny and i was rereading this and i want to tell you a few reasons first in 2016 he talks about this they ask him what his hobbies are and what he does when he’s not working he goes uh i like racing cars i like renting planes and flying them oh and i’ve got one odd thing that i like i like to prep for prep for survival seeing their be bolderment he explained my problem sorry i’m butchering this the problem is when my friends get drunk they talk about ways the world will end after a dutch lab modified h5n1 bird flu viruses five years ago making it super contagious the chance of lethal virus being released the next 20 years will become well non-zero so i have a plot of land in big sur that i can fly to i have antibiotics batteries water gas mass made by israel defense force all ready to go this was in 2016. that’s kind of cool he also talks about basically he sold his company and he uh he goes he profited five million and he invested all of it in startups which i thought was pretty crazy because we’re talking about like crazy freaks um it’s just a really good article i think people should read this because sam altman is like a freak weirdo and that’s like a compliment um because we’re talking about extreme personalities and i think it’s like a really cool insight and it’s one of the only article long-form articles i’ve ever seen written about them so i’ve been rereading that this week that’s a cool one i’m going to check that out i remember paul graham had once said something and paul is obviously a fan of sam alban because he programmed star y combinator and then he put sam altman in charge of it um and sam altman was by no means the most successful yc alumni at the time i think his company sold for 30 million but it was kind of many ways of failure it didn’t succeed it raised 40 and it sold for 30. yeah exactly um and so i think he got some out of it but you know whatever but uh paul graham once said like he’s like when i was talking to sam altman i think maybe for the first time or second time he’s like and like that’s like pretty high praise for somebody so i i thought that was like a pretty cool um i don’t know pretty cool description pretty cool yeah and there’s there’s a lot of weird things about altman that i love i should come up with a better word than weird but peculiar things so for example listen to the sentence in a class that altman taught at stanford in 2014 so which by the way in 2014 he must have been like 28. he remarked that the formula for estimating a startup’s chance of success is something like idea times product times execution times team times luck where luck is a random number between zero and ten and like like little lines like that i just think it’s crazy that someone thinks like that and it’s just it’s peculiar it’s exciting it’s really neat there’s another story where he um he’s working with the with brian chesky the ceo of airbnb and they’re about to pitch in front of everyone at uh yc and there’s this great line where he says brian chessy goes i attribute a lot of our success uh to sam altman and yc and they’re like well why he was like well right before our deck uh they we had a limited we had our deck it was all built out we had limited our projected revenue on the deck to 30 million dollars chesky said sam stopped us and looked at us and goes do me a favor take all those m’s you know the 30 million and change them to bees altman recalls telling them either you don’t believe everything you said in the rest of the deck about how big this is going to be or you’re ashamed or i just can’t do math yeah and he just said change all the ends to bes and i think like that weird type of thinking is actually pretty interesting yeah people who can cut through the noise and just like get straight to the heart of it um all right this is cool this is kind of like stuff that sam’s been reading and listening to stuff we’ve been consuming i don’t know is this interesting is this going to be good or true i enjoyed the conversation i don’t know dan what do you think is this gonna be a good pod yeah i think it’s cool i think it’d be a fun thing to check in every couple weeks or a month all right well let’s see but that’s the episode lil dicky it’s your turn to rock wonder drop a beat on them and i’m back in this [ ] i know y’all know when i rap what it is all facts don’t fib got a gang full of hits in touch with the kids like a pedo i’m a jam like shaq i’m a bang when i wish up in this [ ] like a feeder ain’t no timelines when you timeless hold up mj 96 me and i’m back on my [ ] you know i come hard like a full dick suburban and white stay with the bread like some cool whip though look how it’s spread cool with flow i can make them right with the ig live and my girl got bombs on her body hot and between her legs is looking right hypotenuse 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