Tim Ferriss

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.

So, in my case, I volunteered for a number of startup nonprofits, like the Silicon Valley Association of Startup Entrepreneurs, the Indus Entrepreneur, which Sriram would know, past guest.

Really nice, brilliant guy.

The Indus Entrepreneur almost wholly focused on the Indian diaspora and entrepreneurship around that, right?

And, like, the numbers of...

of amazing entrepreneurs who come out of India, who have chosen to come to the US.

Just unbelievable, right?

I'm not Indian, as you might have guessed.

But I would go there and be like, hey, I'll do anything.

I'll fill water, I'll punch tickets, I'll rearrange chairs.

I just want to be in the room with these speakers, right?