Joe Lonsdale

And we won the state championship when I was a kid, and my brothers did too, and we thought we must be really smart.

And then he kept winning 20 years in a row.

So he's just a very competitive guy.

Everything, every game, every sport, but a really optimistic, positive, competitive guy.

I was the K-6 champion twice in a row in fifth and sixth grade, and we won the Nationals in junior high school.

But it's because we worked really hard at it because he was a good coach.

You got to spend 30, 40 hours a week to be the best.

We grew up in Fremont, California, in Silicon Valley, and these were tournaments in California and around the country.

It was a public high school.

I was a nerdy guy who was a valedictorian, and I had a bunch of really smart friends who taught me a bunch of stuff about, you know, we went way ahead in math and science and stuff.

You know, a lot of the smartest kids in Stanford computer science were going to PayPal at the time.

It was something where I really admired the talent that was there.

You have to realize that company, there was one company started by Peter Thiel and a bunch of his smartest friends.

Max Levchin started it and David Sachs.

All these guys were there, Reid Hoffman.

And there's one company that Elon Musk started with Roloff and a bunch of other really smart people.

It was called X at the time.

And X and Confinity merged to make PayPal.

They were fighting each other and they merged.

So it was all the smartest friends around, both Elon and Peter.