Camilo Acosta

One thing that I wish I had done was actually work at a big tech company earlier in my career, before I was a founder.

When you're a founder and you've never worked anywhere before in tech,

You're really flying blind.

But when you work at a high talent density place like Google or Meta, you understand what the bar is across a variety of functions.

So it wasn't until I got to Meta that I really understood what world class design looks like, world class product, world class engineering.

I thought I knew as a founder, but it really wasn't until I got there that I understood the processes and systems that the best engineers in the world, the best designers in the world, the best product people in the world use to get the job done.

And so if I was going back and talking to the younger version of myself, I would have said, go learn there, go learn from them.

and then go out and build a company.

So you're not making a lot of mistakes.

I think it's just a risk appetite question.

And going back to the psychopathy conversation, there's a different profile there.

Do they care too much about being liked?

There's...

Yeah.

They're not that they're not the extreme of that psychographic profile that, that are found or not enough trauma, not enough trauma necessarily.

Yeah.

Uh, yeah.

Uh, so I think this, which I think are the, frankly, the key factors, because there are tons, tons and tons of intelligent, brilliant people in the world, but how many of them have the right, let's call it the right trauma, the right wiring, uh, the right psychopathy, the right, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, to be, um, a generational founder that transforms the world to play devil's advocate on.

The skillset of a founder

doesn't translate very well to corporate America is what I found.