Chris Koerner
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I remember several people at Meta, but also I think it's a public story, telling me that when he realized he was late to mobile, he refused to take any meetings about anything other than mobile.
Extreme levels of focus.
And then Kevin O'Leary from Shark Tank said the same to me about Elon Musk.
He says, Elon Musk is the only person I think operates close to 100% signal.
I interviewed Walter Isaacs in his biographer, and he said, Elon will sit in a meeting, and if people aren't talking about something that is the most important thing,
He'll completely zone out.
And then the minute he hears something that he considers to be the most important thing, it's like he snaps into reality and he takes control and he's deep into the detail.
And it sits in contradiction to a lot of the narrative of like lots of side hustles, lots of businesses, do as many things as you can.
But you've both kind of, you know, you've managed to create a life for yourself where you're a millionaire and you're free in that regard.
But when I look at the biggest companies in the world, there's this like, there appears to be obsessive focus.
Yeah.
I love that question.
I think that all else equal, the guy who focuses more is more likely to be a billionaire.
But back to momentum, right?
The person that keeps and has and maintains momentum and gets energy from what they do, they're more likely to be a millionaire than the average person, right?
I genuinely have no desire to be a billionaire.
Genuinely.
If I get there, cool.
But I don't want to leave my kids tens of millions of dollars anyway.
I know where I get most of my energy from.