John Rush

For the right person out there, there's probably someone who's like, yeah, you know what? I have been obsessed with the moon when I was five years old and I have some skills that are relevant here. Why don't I just go after this? And then I can always build a million dollar business later. But yeah, these moonshot companies, it's either going to be a billion dollar business or you're going to have

literally lit a billion dollars of other people with money on fire and and it's gonna be a disaster hopefully it's not like a fraud and you actually just spent it on important things and it just like didn't go well which happens all the time and that's fine everyone signs up for that but uh but yeah i mean um i do think that there are lots of people who who are who like they lose a little bit of that you know childlike wonder and if your childhood

literally lit a billion dollars of other people with money on fire and and it's gonna be a disaster hopefully it's not like a fraud and you actually just spent it on important things and it just like didn't go well which happens all the time and that's fine everyone signs up for that but uh but yeah i mean um i do think that there are lots of people who who are who like they lose a little bit of that you know childlike wonder and if your childhood

literally lit a billion dollars of other people with money on fire and and it's gonna be a disaster hopefully it's not like a fraud and you actually just spent it on important things and it just like didn't go well which happens all the time and that's fine everyone signs up for that but uh but yeah i mean um i do think that there are lots of people who who are who like they lose a little bit of that you know childlike wonder and if your childhood

was all about you know doing something really ambitious or like at least give it a shot you know like why not try and get the first thing done build the pitch deck raise the money go hire some people figure out the next thing i mean a lot of people are doing this like post liquidity like there's there's the the robin hood the co-founder of robin hood the trading app became very, very wealthy.

was all about you know doing something really ambitious or like at least give it a shot you know like why not try and get the first thing done build the pitch deck raise the money go hire some people figure out the next thing i mean a lot of people are doing this like post liquidity like there's there's the the robin hood the co-founder of robin hood the trading app became very, very wealthy.

was all about you know doing something really ambitious or like at least give it a shot you know like why not try and get the first thing done build the pitch deck raise the money go hire some people figure out the next thing i mean a lot of people are doing this like post liquidity like there's there's the the robin hood the co-founder of robin hood the trading app became very, very wealthy.

I mean, that's a multi-billion dollar business. And he's always obsessed with space. And so he's doing solar panels in space and then capturing the energy and then beaming it down to earth with a laser. Now, I haven't looked into the numbers. I have no idea if this will work. It sounds crazy to me. Who knows? But like, it's super cool.

I mean, that's a multi-billion dollar business. And he's always obsessed with space. And so he's doing solar panels in space and then capturing the energy and then beaming it down to earth with a laser. Now, I haven't looked into the numbers. I have no idea if this will work. It sounds crazy to me. Who knows? But like, it's super cool.

I mean, that's a multi-billion dollar business. And he's always obsessed with space. And so he's doing solar panels in space and then capturing the energy and then beaming it down to earth with a laser. Now, I haven't looked into the numbers. I have no idea if this will work. It sounds crazy to me. Who knows? But like, it's super cool.

And I'm glad he's doing that instead of just like buying another yacht or something, you know, like go for it, like do something cool. Why not?

And I'm glad he's doing that instead of just like buying another yacht or something, you know, like go for it, like do something cool. Why not?

And I'm glad he's doing that instead of just like buying another yacht or something, you know, like go for it, like do something cool. Why not?

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Yeah, I get you. Well, the next one is a little bit more tactical and a little bit less of a moonshot. I think that this could be, it'd be hard to make this next one a true lifestyle business because it is pretty capital intensive. But I do think that there's a way to make, to de-risk this to the point where you're pretty much guaranteed to make money. Yeah.

Yeah, I get you. Well, the next one is a little bit more tactical and a little bit less of a moonshot. I think that this could be, it'd be hard to make this next one a true lifestyle business because it is pretty capital intensive. But I do think that there's a way to make, to de-risk this to the point where you're pretty much guaranteed to make money. Yeah.

Yeah, I get you. Well, the next one is a little bit more tactical and a little bit less of a moonshot. I think that this could be, it'd be hard to make this next one a true lifestyle business because it is pretty capital intensive. But I do think that there's a way to make, to de-risk this to the point where you're pretty much guaranteed to make money. Yeah.

And so I'll walk through it and then I'll give some examples of other companies that I think kind of fit into this narrative. So one common problem that I was actually just talking to a kid who's younger who said like his parents really didn't want him to become an iPad kid. And so they got him this locked down Kindle Fire that was just for reading eBooks.