Max Levchin

Days when it's yes is when it's not very different from being a private company CEO. Being a public company, generally speaking, gives you access to more capital, exposes you to really smart investors you can engage with. So there's lots of things to like. There's some investors out there that will only invest in public equities and capital. They are brilliant people.

Days when it's yes is when it's not very different from being a private company CEO. Being a public company, generally speaking, gives you access to more capital, exposes you to really smart investors you can engage with. So there's lots of things to like. There's some investors out there that will only invest in public equities and capital. They are brilliant people.

Days when it's yes is when it's not very different from being a private company CEO. Being a public company, generally speaking, gives you access to more capital, exposes you to really smart investors you can engage with. So there's lots of things to like. There's some investors out there that will only invest in public equities and capital. They are brilliant people.

Like they've seen it all before. They could write books about what a great public CEO looks like. And you want to go spend a half an hour with them and ask them, teach me how to be as good as blank. If you're a private company CEO, they might take your meeting, but they're probably busy. If you're a public company CEO, they might own your stock.

Like they've seen it all before. They could write books about what a great public CEO looks like. And you want to go spend a half an hour with them and ask them, teach me how to be as good as blank. If you're a private company CEO, they might take your meeting, but they're probably busy. If you're a public company CEO, they might own your stock.

Like they've seen it all before. They could write books about what a great public CEO looks like. And you want to go spend a half an hour with them and ask them, teach me how to be as good as blank. If you're a private company CEO, they might take your meeting, but they're probably busy. If you're a public company CEO, they might own your stock.

And then they want to talk to you because they want to assess you as much as they want to help you. And so that's a cheat code to access some of the best brains out there.

And then they want to talk to you because they want to assess you as much as they want to help you. And so that's a cheat code to access some of the best brains out there.

And then they want to talk to you because they want to assess you as much as they want to help you. And so that's a cheat code to access some of the best brains out there.

The days where you're like, oh, man, is inevitably when you're like, well, I now have to go read this filing that we have to make because it's part of my responsibilities to make sure I understand everything we're putting out there in the public and can't avoid that. And those are small prices to pay.

The days where you're like, oh, man, is inevitably when you're like, well, I now have to go read this filing that we have to make because it's part of my responsibilities to make sure I understand everything we're putting out there in the public and can't avoid that. And those are small prices to pay.

The days where you're like, oh, man, is inevitably when you're like, well, I now have to go read this filing that we have to make because it's part of my responsibilities to make sure I understand everything we're putting out there in the public and can't avoid that. And those are small prices to pay.

But you do have added responsibilities that were not what you thought you'd be getting into when you were getting a computer science degree.

But you do have added responsibilities that were not what you thought you'd be getting into when you were getting a computer science degree.

But you do have added responsibilities that were not what you thought you'd be getting into when you were getting a computer science degree.

The short answer is I'm sure it is, but I'm sure I put an enormous amount of effort into making sure it's not. And so it's a balance you're constantly trying to strike where the thing that is hard, harder is when you think you're doing a fantastic job and you can look at the internal numbers and you look at the external numbers, you're like, I am absolutely crushing it.

The short answer is I'm sure it is, but I'm sure I put an enormous amount of effort into making sure it's not. And so it's a balance you're constantly trying to strike where the thing that is hard, harder is when you think you're doing a fantastic job and you can look at the internal numbers and you look at the external numbers, you're like, I am absolutely crushing it.

The short answer is I'm sure it is, but I'm sure I put an enormous amount of effort into making sure it's not. And so it's a balance you're constantly trying to strike where the thing that is hard, harder is when you think you're doing a fantastic job and you can look at the internal numbers and you look at the external numbers, you're like, I am absolutely crushing it.

And so sometimes it's very tempting to say, well, by now the market should know and they should just give us high marks and that means the stock goes green, green, green. And more often than not, you have a temporal mismatch where you're doing great, you know you're doing great and the market thinks you're not.

And so sometimes it's very tempting to say, well, by now the market should know and they should just give us high marks and that means the stock goes green, green, green. And more often than not, you have a temporal mismatch where you're doing great, you know you're doing great and the market thinks you're not.