Chris Williamson

Yeah, George and I were talking about this this morning because I think there's like conventionally good wisdom that is focus.

And this was one of the things I was surprised by.

Warren Buffett's the perfect quote to like explain this concept at a high level, which is like, you can't get a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.

Elon's tried.

So there are some things that there's an incompressible amount of time.

And if you put those in sequence, now all of a sudden your timeline is this long.

But if you can plant all the seeds at the same time and they're growing in parallel, all of a sudden your timeline is shrunk by a third.

And

I was at the grandest scale.

It's kind of like most normal people would start an electric car company, grow it, make it successful, and then start their space company.

And he was like, nah, I can do both at once.

We just give it a try.

because we might be able to move the total timeline of success up dramatically and it's harder and it's riskier, but it also generates returns sooner.

And I think there's only some problems that are like, this is the right approach for.

And he talked about in PayPal, he was like, we were developing the product and trying to do all these integrations and trying to get like regulatory coverage.

And it was like, we did all of them all at once.

It was fucking chaos, but we launched in a year instead of,

the three years that would have been conventional wisdom of like, it doesn't make sense to invest in the product until we have the permission and we don't have the integrations until we have the product.

He's like, nope, do it all at once, launch immediately.

And even further than that, I think this comes from his study of history in a lot of ways.