Patrick O'Shaughnessy

People will do things they didn't even know they were capable of doing.

What do you want now?

You're someone that has done a lot of thinking big, a lot of moving fast, had a lot of success as a result of those two things across a lot of industries.

You strike me as someone that's not going to stop or slow down.

So what do you want?

What do you still want?

One thing that you have to do well by definition, given you've started all these companies and all these industries, is know when to leave.

How do you know when a chapter is done?

I'd love to do a really quick tour of the businesses and something surprising about the business that you learned building them that people might not appreciate.

Maybe starting all the way back with oil business and your couple adventures there.

So I don't know what surprised people about me.

I really don't.

I think I saw somewhere that you would consider something like accounting as an area that you might go check out, but then decided against it.

And I'm always just so interested by why you might pass on something.

Is that a real example?

Did I have that right?

And if so, why did you decide not to do it?

Is there anything else about software versus physical technology in the software sense of incredible software businesses obviously have been built, but software can get disrupted by other software fairly easily.

Whereas disrupting United Rental or something, I guess it's possible, but it's not going to be done by a programmer in his closet.

I love the idea of think big and move fast.