Alex Rampell

They had studied history so much.

Same thing for Vlad at Robinhood, studied history so much.

Same thing for a pervert at Instacart, went out to go meet the founders of Webvan.

This is a very, very classic trait.

On the other side,

I will meet people that will start a company almost exactly like TrialPay or almost exactly like Affirm.

And I know a lot about these two companies because I started them, right?

And they're like, oh, what was TrialPay?

Or, oh, I'd never heard of this.

And it's like, come on, man.

You're going to spend 10 years of your life building this thing.

And you really should study history.

Brian Chesky at Airbnb studied everything about bed and breakfast and hotel industry in the 1800s.

This is a very, very classic trade.

So let me just finish with this.

So again, labor capital customers study history.

And then my favorite book of all time is The Count of Monte Cristo because it's a story of revenge.

And the reason why this is so important, if you know the book, it's by Alexandre Dumas.

Edmond Dantes is wronged.

He's sent to prison for bogus reasons for supposedly being a Napoleon supporter for like 17, 18 years.