Ben Horowitz

And you can walk in and learn anything.

And trust me, when you're old, it's harder to learn new things.

Like it just is something about your brain stops functioning as well.

It's all filled up with old stuff you don't need anymore and you can't learn enough new stuff.

And so...

I think that, you know, the main thing is just, like, understand the future and then the future is yours is the way I would think about it if I was, you know, 19 or 20 years old.

Well, look, I mean, I think that, you know, it always comes down to, like,

can you build something, a product, an organization, a culture, an offering that people want?

And then if you don't build it,

Is it getting built by somebody else?

Or do they need you to do that?

Does the world need you to do that?

Or it doesn't exist is always the best entrepreneurial idea.

And so anything that needs to exist that doesn't otherwise exist is a good idea.

And look, that was the whole story with a venture capital firm now.

Did the world need another venture capital firm?

Generically, no.

Did it need a different kind of venture capital firm?

Absolutely, it did.

And so that's what we built.