Shaan Puri

And if you start off saying, I'm going to build Tesla,

Unless you are truly, truly special and gifted and unique.

But guess what?

Even Elon didn't start with Tesla, right?

He started with a much simpler business before that.

And so, you know, Ward Buffett was, you know, selling, he's putting arcade machine games in barbershops.

Like, you know, everybody starts somewhere.

And in doing that, you learn a lot.

You learn a lot about yourself.

You learn a lot about generating demand, about operations, about hiring, about finance.

You learn in this like kind of safe sandbox environment.

And it's simple enough that you actually get started versus trying to go for the perfect business.

You really don't even get in the game is what I've seen for most people.

And so I do like the idea of why build businesses.

However, most of them, almost by definition, are pretty bad businesses to own.

And you end up working a ton.

You kind of like build yourself a job is what happened, I think, in most cases.

And that's in the success scenario.

Of course, there's outliers, but I just wanted to say that out loud.

Now, I'm curious from your point of view,