Eric Jorgenson
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Even if that's untrue in some part, like an ability to be disliked, a preparedness to not care so much about optics in the way that other people do.
Have you heard Jonathan B's approach?
He says there's only three types of founders that are going to be successful.
Number one is megalomaniac.
Number two is autist.
And number three is revenge fantasy.
and megalomaniac Adam Neumann from WeWork, autist Elon Musk, and revenge fantasy Palmer Luckey.
Although I think Palmer actually kind of has a bit of all three, and I think Elon probably has a bit of all three as well.
Like, you know, trying to alchemize some slights that occurred earlier on.
But look, I think in order to do different things, in order to make changes and to push the limits in ways that people haven't seen before,
Obviously, obviously you're going to need, but by design, you're going to have to get comfortable with people doubting you and making judgments about it.
The disregard for the way things are done is completely crucial.
I swear there's a line about driving.
Everybody driving slower than you is an idiot and everyone driving faster than you is a maniac.
Yeah.
There's one about women as well.
Every girl who's got smaller titties than me is flat chested and every girl who's got bigger titties than me is a fatty.
Small titties, big titties.
It all comes down to titties.
So look, dude, coming to the book process, which I think is fascinating, obviously you write the Navalmanac, and then that kind of springboards you into this, pretty much the forefront of the self-published pioneer space.