Theo Baker

Right.

The tree hacks team is considered one of those so-called high signal clusters where those builders congregate.

High signal cluster.

Yeah.

Going back to the lingo of this place.

And so venture capitalists would take us all out for dinner and offer to fund any of our ideas.

And there was, you know, a yacht party and, you know, there was mansion retreats and all of this sort of insane stuff, which.

You know, TreeX does not advertise, right?

The perks are not advertised as part of the job.

But it turns out that, you know, this was sort of my entry point to beginning to see how some of this place worked.

You know, you have to be tapped on the shoulder by someone in the class to be worthy of an interview with Justin, the Silicon Valley CEO who has styled himself as a professor.

And he sits there and his eyes are like burrowing into you, or at least that was my experience.

And he's asking you, you know, these deeply personal questions, like right after meeting you.

Yeah, and what was the lowest emotional point of your life and what ties them together.

And he says that he can learn everything he needs to know about you in 20 minutes.

And it's amazing, right?

He's sitting there.

Our interview, because it was raining, we had to go inside, so we did our interview inside instead of outside, as he usually does it.

We were sitting in the most public building at Stanford, right?

The Tressiter Memorial Union, which is like the food court for visitors, having this interview for this secret, secret class, which was just so...