Marc Andreessen

and you're just miserable and like you dread checking your email and you just simply like do not want to know like what the new bad news is because there's so much bad news that you just can't even cope with what you have like you need a very very very primal reason to get out of bed and continue to fight that way and so i think there is something about you know maybe trauma in the background that explains that having said that some of the best founders in history have no trace of trauma in their background that i can tell and i'll just give you two examples and zuckerberg is one who you know grew up in a classic upper middle class you know new jersey household very close to his parents and his family

and you're just miserable and like you dread checking your email and you just simply like do not want to know like what the new bad news is because there's so much bad news that you just can't even cope with what you have like you need a very very very primal reason to get out of bed and continue to fight that way and so i think there is something about you know maybe trauma in the background that explains that having said that some of the best founders in history have no trace of trauma in their background that i can tell and i'll just give you two examples and zuckerberg is one who you know grew up in a classic upper middle class you know new jersey household very close to his parents and his family

And then Bill Gates, his father was a lion of the Seattle establishment and he went to all the best prep schools in Harvard.

And then Bill Gates, his father was a lion of the Seattle establishment and he went to all the best prep schools in Harvard.

And again, as far as I know, had a perfectly great childhood.

And again, as far as I know, had a perfectly great childhood.

People who knew both of those guys in their teenage years said like, these are driven guys.

People who knew both of those guys in their teenage years said like, these are driven guys.

It's very core to their origin stories.

It's very core to their origin stories.

And so you have to be open to the idea that some people are just born that way.

And so you have to be open to the idea that some people are just born that way.

Well, of course, that would require introspection.

Well, of course, that would require introspection.

I don't know if I'm gonna give you a great answer to that.

I don't know if I'm gonna give you a great answer to that.

I'll tell you what I tell myself is, at this point, what I tell myself is I'm sort of, I'm competing with myself.

I'll tell you what I tell myself is, at this point, what I tell myself is I'm sort of, I'm competing with myself.

I am trying to figure out how to be the best possible version of what I can be and what I can do.

I am trying to figure out how to be the best possible version of what I can be and what I can do.