Ric Elias
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And it's true.
Everything is a little brown.
I've stopped pursuing more.
That's why anything I do from here on out with my capital, the return on the capital, I don't invest anymore on funds.
I don't invest in anything.
I don't want to compound capital.
I know that sounds like opposite of what you would ever think.
I want to use my capital to compound other things that matter to me.
So I'm using my capital in Puerto Rico to do things that really matter to me.
This whole notion of purpose.
My original purpose is through my kids, is through my friends, is through my community.
But then I am incredibly privileged to broaden that purpose to things that are good for society.
That's all that matters.
Capital for capital what?
You're never going to be Bezos or whoever else.
That's a silly game.
You flipped something around on me earlier today that was really interesting around this idea of like 90-10 in a conversation where I think maybe you and I are both tend to really be curious about other people and ask a million questions and very often finish a conversation having only spoken 10% of the time or something like that, which I guess I've always thought is like a nice thing to do for somebody else, like be genuinely curious about them, like to think I'm that way.
But you had a different perspective on this.
Can you explain that?
Yeah.