Aravind Srinivas
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3,937 appearances
8 recordings
7 series
first heard Jun 2024
last heard 7 Jul
Aravind Srinivas’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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A lot of it is cultural.
America was made from a piece of land, essentially, right?
And a lot of ideas that we built here, a lot of industries that we built here were all like created here from nothing.
And that required you to like go take bold risks.
I think Jeff Bezos said this in some podcast that where else would you like be able to go raise like a few million dollars for an idea that has like five to 10% chance of working and then fail at it and still go and raise another few million dollars for your next idea.
Nowhere else.
People who get rich here actually want to encourage and be part of somebody else's crazy journey because it's hard to pursue all crazy bets yourself.
So it's an ecosystem.
And once something becomes an ecosystem, there's network effects.
So it's very hard to copy that elsewhere.
Correct.
And you have to work hard.
I'm a big believer in intense hard work.
I think nothing great can be accomplished by being soft.
And so all this recent push for having a lot of work-life balance, this and that.
Sure, if you have work-life balance, if that's what you want, then I think there are certain jobs that will give you that.
But when you're trying to do something from scratch, when you're trying to create something from nothing...
It's not meant to be easy.
There are some sacrifices that have to be made, and you're signing up to be part of that experience, that surreal joy you get from doing something that's felt almost impossible to achieve.
And you're not staying up late or waking up early because you're getting paid more.
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