Joe Lonsdale
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It's kind of like being like the hero warrior champion to say, even though this is a mess, what are we going to do to make it work? And it's a leadership quality that I think if you bias towards that it can be figured out, I've just found oftentimes things can be. Yeah.
Oh, very cool.
Oh, very cool.
Oh, very cool.
What was he thinking privately?
What was he thinking privately?
What was he thinking privately?
As a leader, you have to suffer things that no one else suffers and you have to deal with the things no one else deals with. And it's actually really interesting because I invest in a lot of great leaders now and try to help them and try to mentor them. And it's very funny because you end up sometimes having to be their therapist a little bit because there's no one else they could talk to.
As a leader, you have to suffer things that no one else suffers and you have to deal with the things no one else deals with. And it's actually really interesting because I invest in a lot of great leaders now and try to help them and try to mentor them. And it's very funny because you end up sometimes having to be their therapist a little bit because there's no one else they could talk to.
As a leader, you have to suffer things that no one else suffers and you have to deal with the things no one else deals with. And it's actually really interesting because I invest in a lot of great leaders now and try to help them and try to mentor them. And it's very funny because you end up sometimes having to be their therapist a little bit because there's no one else they could talk to.
I imagine so, yes. Yeah, we didn't really grow up with therapy in my house. It's not something I do at all. But I think I imagine it's something similar when people are dealing with struggling through something really hard like this.
I imagine so, yes. Yeah, we didn't really grow up with therapy in my house. It's not something I do at all. But I think I imagine it's something similar when people are dealing with struggling through something really hard like this.
I imagine so, yes. Yeah, we didn't really grow up with therapy in my house. It's not something I do at all. But I think I imagine it's something similar when people are dealing with struggling through something really hard like this.
there's all sorts of different versions of this. I think, I think one of the most common challenges is the hardest to diagnose because they don't come to you is, is this like excess, is excess pride and like not, not in like just like having so much money thrown at them because right now there's just so much money for the very best people in the stuff in AI that's starting to work.
there's all sorts of different versions of this. I think, I think one of the most common challenges is the hardest to diagnose because they don't come to you is, is this like excess, is excess pride and like not, not in like just like having so much money thrown at them because right now there's just so much money for the very best people in the stuff in AI that's starting to work.
there's all sorts of different versions of this. I think, I think one of the most common challenges is the hardest to diagnose because they don't come to you is, is this like excess, is excess pride and like not, not in like just like having so much money thrown at them because right now there's just so much money for the very best people in the stuff in AI that's starting to work.
And so you get, you get this like, I think it's actually one of the most dangerous challenges is like this overinflated
And so you get, you get this like, I think it's actually one of the most dangerous challenges is like this overinflated
And so you get, you get this like, I think it's actually one of the most dangerous challenges is like this overinflated
ego and sense of it's like a I think all of us who are entrepreneurs have some narcissism I think that's like a natural thing but when it gets to a real extreme that's really dangerous and you stop questioning and you and you stop admitting when things are not going quite right because you can paper over it with the money you raise so that's probably the biggest challenge is that side I think the the other the other side of things is just this like