Chris Williamson

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.

He says, I think the extended version of that quote is like, if we did, if you, if you never take a risk, like the United States wouldn't exist.

Like every great adventure involves risk and people will die.

And we have to accept that we are, the pendulum has swung too far towards like, oh my God, nobody can ever be harmed in any way.

Nobody is allowed to risk their life.

Nobody's allowed to take experimental treatments.