Eric Jorgenson

And like I, for whatever reason, I'm sure it would be a nightmare for plenty of people, but I have fun spending thousands of hours like breaking down very specific, useful ideas and articulating them and finding supporting arguments for them and like putting them all together in this thread that helps me remember it and helps other people identify with it.

Like these are examples of specific knowledge that are outcomes of just how we chose to live.

And we just continued to do things that felt authentic and unique to us.

And people responded to it.

And we sort of iterated through like, all right, I had fun doing that and the world enjoyed it.

So I'm gonna do it again, or I'm gonna,

do it in a new way.

And I want to continue it.

Like, and we both ended up in unique careers that would have been very difficult to predict or define ahead of time.

There were no blueprints for, you know, this is not an existing genre, like your particular combination of businesses is not one that there's a ton of

historical precedent for.

It's not like you set out to say, I'm going to build a real estate brokerage and I'm going to do it using all the best practices of real estate brokerage.

This combination of media and capital is new and emerging and dynamic and everybody's doing it in a new way.

I think that mixture of authenticity and excellence, be yourself,

do it to the best degree you possibly can and specific knowledge will come downstream of that.

I know you had Bill Gurley on and he's become this incredible student of your industry.

If you set 10 people down and said, all right, you are all going to go study the history of venture capital.

Bill Gurley is a great venture capitalist.

Those 10 people are all going to study different things.

They're going to make different branching decisions all the way down and one might become an expert in the history of biotech or green tech or fintech.