Garry Tan

And it's because like my whole life and everything I believed was constructed for me by people who now I realize why was I paying attention to the reporters at the Wall Street Journal at that moment?

It's like they are closer to the source, but they're not connected to the source.

People who are like you or Paul Graham or like a lot of the people we know are

They are in the flow.

And like the thing that you read about from media is actually the second and third hand retellings of stuff that the people connect to the source are doing from six or nine months ago.

And so I thought, oh, well, they're working on enterprise software.

That's not hot.

I mean, this whole idea of investing or spending your life following what is hot is like, I'm sure, I mean, this must like drive you crazy.

I don't participate in that.

Yeah, exactly, right?

Like if you met someone and they're like, well, I kind of want to, you know, make something.

I want to make a song that's kind of like whatever they just heard.

I was like, dude, why are you like, that's telling someone else's story.

You know, what's your story?

What's going on for you?

And so if I can just go back to when I was 22 and value myself more and then also realize the whole world is made up and you don't have to take it on authority from media or really anyone, even your mentors, right?

Like slay your mentors, not literally, but just like, I mean, in your mind.

No, they mean well, but they're sharing their experience from their life.

Yeah.

And you're on a different path.