Martín Escobari
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And you have to make some tough calls.
Love is a treacherous thing.
Funny story.
So the one time that I didn't follow the checklist,
was for love.
So obviously, I had a checklist for the woman I'm going to marry.
And when I met Daniela, my Portuguese teacher, she didn't score very high on the checklist.
Where was she deficient?
I won't say.
Things that are absolutely irrelevant to the task at hand.
I had the wrong framework.
And she was perfect in every way, and she's been perfect in every way.
So in matters of the heart, forget the checklist.
I actually pitched Bill my startup.
This is 1998, came in through New York.
And I had heard a lot about General Authentic and how they're different and they think long-term and they're good partners and Chuck Feeney.
It's really hard to get the meeting.
We give them the meeting.
Bill and I really hit it off.
I made the pitch.