Tim Ferriss

Why yes?

Why no?

And eventually at one point I was like, hey,

I'm willing to put skin in the game, and I can be really cheap labor.

Like, is there any chance I could invest small amounts along with you into some of these startups?

and help them with go-to-market strategy, whatever.

And he's like, well, I can ask.

And what I decided to do was rather than go to graduate school, I'd take the cost that I would have paid out of pocket, sunk cost.

So I think Stanford Business School is like 60K for two years.

60K, 60K, 120.

And I was like, all right, I'm going to make the Tim Ferriss fund.

I put it in air quotes because it's not a real fund.

But I'm going to spend, I'm going to plan on spending 120K over two years in small checks.

I assume the money is all going to zero.

But what I'm optimizing for is skills and relationships.

Just like this in school.

And that's how it started.

Then there's the question of what do you say yes to, what do you say no to?

I only said yes to things where... the ones that worked out.

I made a lot of mistakes, but the ones that worked out, which then became...