Sam Parr

And then secondly...

What if I found a guy like me, just a lovable fuck-up who could be fixed?

And it's like, you know, so those are biases that would lead you too far in that direction.

It's not to say you never hire a junior person, but too often defaulting to that.

And so you got to know your own biases.

What about yours?

Do you have one?

I wrote project selection.

So my theory is this.

if you are hardworking and you are sufficiently talented, then the only variable that matters is what project you pick to work on, right?

Because if you're going to work really hard on it and you're talented, then either you're going to be a 10 out of 10 person working on a two out of 10 opportunity or a 10 out of 10 person working on a 10 out of 10 opportunity.

And I think I have picked some real dog shit projects in the past.

So I tried to start a sushi restaurant chain, which like,

Restaurants are one of the worst businesses.

Sushi would be one of the worst types of restaurants to do.

And by the way, that makes no sense for me as a person to do.

The second one, I tried to make the next hit social media app.

I tried to make the next Twitter, the next Facebook, the next Snapchat.

And I spent six years going after that as a project to select.

And God, that is hard to do.