Tim Ferriss

Yeah, Facebook, Twitter, Shopify, Duolingo.

Clear, the biometric security company in all the airports.

Alibaba, like a whole bunch.

Wow.

Yeah.

Wow.

So how am I early?

Both.

So there are a few things that I think are maybe copy and pasteable, and then some things that are probably not as copy and pasteable.

The things that I think are copy and pasteable, and there's a book coming out soon by a legendary venture capitalist named Bill Gurley called Running Down a Dream, I believe is the title of the book, which really makes this point well.

But going to the epicenter of the action,

matters.

It really matters in real life.

So, me... packing up after college with my piece of shit, hand-me-down Plymouth Voyager minivan.

Like, it's so beaten up.

Like, hundreds of thousands of miles.

Like, the back seats got stolen out of a...

parking lot when i first got to the bay area i mean you know i my my got ruthlessly made fun of by my co-workers but it's like i picked up and i was like i am going west to silicon valley to make my riches and that didn't happen quickly but what it did do is it put me in the very center of the pinball machine where i could bump into things

and i could bump into things by volunteering like you don't have no you don't have any network get creative what do you have you have time okay you've got endurance right you're young in that case right what are your advantages you always have advantages all right we'll look

Design something around your advantages.