Tim Ferriss

I met Toby of Shopify when they had, like, eight to ten employees.

And he had read the book, and that was a context for a conversation.

And then ended up becoming, you know, their first, I believe, advisor.

And...

So that's an example.

I do think that you can engineer that type of thing just by cultivating a network, which, by the way, just like my friendships, is like a few people very deep, not a scattershot collection of business cards.

I don't think that works very well at all.

And it comes off as what it is, which is transactional and superficial.

Because here's the secret.

The secret is, if you develop true friendship,

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.