Alex Honnold

I was like I don't need to get paid to go have fun with my friends on a wall.

Like it's fine.

But as a result of that film –

You know, a year or two later, they wind up doing a photo shoot up there for the cover of National Geographic.

And so you just wind up in other things.

And then that got seen and I wound up being profiled by 60 Minutes, which actually was one of the first sort of career inflection points.

It was like the 60 Minutes profile in 2011 or something.

But basically, I've done a ton of work for free over my life as all part of like it's all part of the game.

And I just love playing the game.

And so you just like let it play out.

And it's funny because with this building, a lot of people thought that I was sort of underpaid by it.

But afterward, you know, some people have approached me about some bonuses and some other work stuff.

And like basically a lot has already sort of happened.

And it's only been a couple weeks since the building.

And I'm kind of like, you know, you don't need to get paid for the thing itself because it always works basically.

I'm kind of like, I don't know.

I'm like, don't get hung up on how much you get paid.

Just do the thing, make sure it's freaking rad, and it all sorts itself out.

You're just doing a thing, you make it as good as you can, and eventually it all sort of works, and you're like, cool.

Yeah.