Mikita Mikado

focus and uh plans and and uh expectations and the thing about silicon valley it's a very small ecosystem so you want to you want to play cool so that's that's kind of how i think about it

Um...

I'll give you the most useful one.

Pitch anything.

It helped me tremendously.

Coming from a former Soviet state, I did not shine with my persuasion and sales skills.

There's your man.

Okay, number two.

Go ahead.

That book was great.

That book talks about the...

Talks about sailing and persuasion and pitching combined with neuroscience.

So since it's like scientific, I really liked it.

And there's like a very good foundation for that book.

Yeah, there are a few people actually.

There are a few people.

Name one or two.

I'll name Satya Nadella because when the transition from Ballmer to Satya happened, I was pretty confident that Microsoft is irrelevant and that changed fast.

Um, and I was very, like, I was really, really surprised by what happened to that company in such a short period of time, considering the scale of that company, the size of that company.

Um, so that, that, that, that, that was just like fascinating.