Ben Horowitz
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And then that may like kind of force you to build a company.
And those are the things that work the best that we've seen are solutions.
are these big things.
I mean, it's really hard to, and even like Elon Musk didn't start his career trying to build Tesla, right?
Like he was solving a much smaller problem.
And, you know, that's generally how you build up to that.
I think trying to swallow the earth from the beginning with no experience doesn't usually work.
It's good for your pitch deck, but it's not good for your company.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.
A little bit more mundane than satellites.
Yeah, Yellow Pages and then PayPal and then, you know, Tesla and SpaceX.
I think it's, I think thinking of it like how big a thing am I going to do is the wrong way to think about it.
You have to start with like, what problem can I solve?
And then you solve... If you can solve that problem, that's where to start.
Like, you have to size it to you.
Not everybody is the same.
Like, different people have different capabilities.
You become kind of your full, like, most effective self at a different age.
Like, some people are really good when they're... By the way, like, Zuck is way different now than he was when he was 20 years old.