Brad Jacobs

And I resold it for a half a billion dollar loss.

So sometimes you spot a trend and get all excited about it and act on it.

It's not a real trend.

That's an example of that.

You got to be careful that you don't have false trends.

So you'll notice the very beginning of the book, I have the acknowledgement section.

And usually in the acknowledgement section, you thank your manager and your publicist and your publisher and your wife and God, whatever.

And they're pretty much all the same.

And I said, I don't want to waste the reader's time, do some boring thing.

I tried not to put anything silly in the book.

I tried to be snappy.

I tried to make it substantive and respect the reader's time because people are busy and they're doing me the privilege of reading the book.

I want to give them something in return, something that's worth reading.

So in the acknowledgement section,

I picked about 15 or 20 people that have been my mentors, that have been my teachers, that have been my friends that I learned stuff from, just people that I've really benefited a lot, gained some wisdom, gained some insight that I wouldn't have had otherwise.

And that's what I put.

I put the person's name and then in one sentence, what did I learn from them?

What's one of the most important things I learned from them?

One of the acknowledgements actually is Ray Kurzweil because Kurzweil wrote a book in, I

And its premise was that technology is advancing at ever-increasing speeds.