Sam Parr

you know, are kind of, they go, oh, you can't be a VC because you're not the one actually doing the work.

That never bothered me.

You know, I'm someone who's really drawn to intellectual breadth.

And so a service job, whether it's working in banking or working as a VC, gives me a window across way more companies than if I were working in one.

And I also, I'm fairly certain I have ADD and like focusing on details is not something I'm good at.

I don't ever remember wanting to quit.

Really?

I think the CEO job is the loneliest job in America.

I've said that many, many times before.

It's hard.

And one of the things that makes it particularly hard, you need to run culturally opposite what's happening at the company.

So if the company's doing poorly, you have to bring the positive energy and make people believe it's possible.

And if the company's running hot, you want to bring them down to earth.

And this is my...

This is my theory on why the CEO job's so hard.

So running counter emotionally to what everybody else in the organization feels is exhausting.

I do.

Leadership's really, really hard.

I think one of the things that is often...

not talked about enough in the, the whole, both Silicon Valley and just the, the, uh, celebration of the founder is that, that if you're successful and your company grows, you're going to go from 10 employees to a hundred employees to a thousand employees.