Sam Parr

What did he do angel-wise?

Oh, he did Google, Uber.

I think that first round was a 10 poster.

But to get to the point, he said the only thing he looks for is this insane determinism.

He wanted to believe the person was going to go do this no matter what, come hell or high water.

And I think that may be a common trait of a lot of the founders.

They're just really, really determined and pushing against this thing.

The other thing that's true of any tech founder is they're hyper-curious about the edge of what the technology can do.

And anytime there's a big disruption, AI being the most recent, but before that, there was social media and the mobile wave and the SaaS wave and

all these waves, and they create opportunity because incumbents are usually slow to embrace them.

And so you can run at these things fast, but that requires you to be hyper curious about where the world's going and what's changing so that you can master it before anyone else does.

I forget the exact equation, but it's basically like Angela Duckworth, she's like... I think she started the original book with 50% passion or 50% perseverance.

And one thing we highlight, we actually had a chance to talk to her, which I'm super grateful for.

But we found this podcast she had done 10 years later where she said it probably shouldn't have been 50-50, that it needed to put more weight on passion.

And her fear is that we've taught children, young adults, how to grind.

So we've taught them to persevere for the sake of perseverance.

And she believes that now.

Now she believes that leads to burnout.

And so if you have all this effort without the love for it, it feels more like work.

And one of the things,