Long-Lasting Companies, Pandemic Monitoring & Deepfake Businesses

The first phase of the company is just build something that people want and figure out if you can get it to them. Don't worry about culture, don't worry about brand, don't worry about the forever plan, don't worry about the 25-year vision. None of it's going to matter if you can't do the first thing.

People get really excited about building something and being a part of something and working on something for 30 years; I get more excited about taking sort of 7-year chapter arcs of my life ... I only get one life to live. I want to experience all the things; I want to ride all the rides.

I love when people have a vision for their life and what they're doing. When somebody's got a weird and compelling vision for their life, that is like one of the most attractive traits to me. It doesn't even matter if I agree with that vision. It's that they have that vision and that they agree with that vision is what matters.

Following up with somebody who didn't answer you always feels like a little low status bitch move, but it packs a big punch ... They start assuming the worst. Instead, assume the obvious: People are busy, and they forget.

I go back to go study the early origins of these companies ... They start with a sort of humble ambition. Then, as things start to work, they snowball their ambition; they become more and more ambitious as they go, realizing the opportunity is wider and bigger than they had initially planned for, and that one type of success earns the right to go for the next step of success and that it is okay to ladder up.

You have to build a real strong company culture, and you have to figure out how do you keep employees for a long time. And that's one of the keys to building a brand that can last a long time.

Dude, White Castle, I fucking love White Castle. I went and looked at their LinkedIn... Their executive team, like all of them, have worked there for, like, 30 years.

Finding things that recur daily and making them 2% better, because... the things you do with high-frequency compound if you made them slightly better.

Who is creating the pandemic monitoring/detection/modeling/awareness program that you can then go sell to every single government on Earth as an indefinite, ongoing contract?