Tim Ferriss

with someone you love like a brother or sister, or could, who could become one of your true long-term friends, and they happen to be an A player at something, A players in one domain tend to know A players in a lot of domains.

You don't need to know everybody, right?

You really don't.

Okay, so there's that.

I'm trying to answer this question in the least long-winded way I can, but it's nuanced.

So in terms of selection, so then I start seeing startups.

But I don't have very much money at the time.

Got a little bit.

And I had fantasized about going to Stanford Business School for a lot of reasons.

I was like, I would have been so much happier at Stanford than Princeton, which I think is probably true.

And it's gorgeous.

It's got like Palm Drive.

It's an amazing campus.

And it's completely integrated with venture capital and startups.

They have real operators to teach at that school.

So I went through the application process twice, and then for one reason or another, I was like, I just can't do it.

I just don't want to be back in school.

And then I was helping a friend of mine, Mike Maples Jr., who was a super angel.

He was a very good angel investor.

I had met him through one of my professors at school.