Joe Lonsdale

help you get to know them, and you know professors there as well, and you just have people who are young, smart, technical people who are social, and they're there, and they're mapping it out, and they're helping you meet the right people.

So when I come in, there's different groups we've met, people who want to work with us, we want to learn from them, so it's a mutually beneficial thing where you're getting to know all the top talent, and you're helping connect them to your top companies, and it just becomes a

a way to work with them all.

It's like a chicken and egg you start with.

I'll have a superstar from my portfolio who's like one of our best engineers who just came from MIT and they had like five or six of their smartest friends in the younger year and you'll go meet those kids who are the smartest guys you know.

So it's a network.

Yeah, and then you might talk to him and you might work on projects with him so you get to know a little bit.

But, yeah, you're just purely through the network.

I mean, it's a lot of things.

It's the same way if you're a football coach or you're a baseball coach.

You've got to do this for talent and tech.

An entrepreneur needs to have opinions.

An entrepreneur needs to be able to say, here's my hypothesis about the world.

Here's why I'm right.

Usually they want to have some chip on their shoulder, something they're trying to prove.

They will have to be someone.

You can tell they're ambitious.

They believe in things.

You need smart, interesting, curious people to build things, but you need to have a certain level of leadership and opinions about the world, I think, to build things.

I mean, of course, you know, you have to go with Peter Thiel and Elon Musk, but also people early in my life. My original chess teacher, Richard Sherman, he passed a few years ago, but he was like an intelligence officer and he dropped out.