Trae Stephens
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard 31 Jul
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You know, the venture community, venture capital community is filled with all these super talented former entrepreneurs or whatever.
Um, and they've taken like the route of Big Head in Silicon Valley, the HBO show, where they're just kind of like resting, investing, just kind of chilling out, making lifestyle decisions uh while writing angel checks.
Um, and that feels like a real moral failure uh of uh of tech uh because the the founder
That are operating on God mode should be focused on the hardest, most important quests.
Like if we need to rebuild semiconductor manufacturing in the United States, I would really like some of these incredibly wealthy, incredibly talented people to step in and have an opinion about how that's gonna get done.
you know, easy enterprise SaaS companies or something like that 'cause it's the easiest way to print money.
And so that's really what Good Quest was all about is like, have you taken the time, you, you know, tech operator, tech entrepreneur, have you taken the time to evaluate the quest that you're on uh to to discern are is it a good one, is it a bad one, is it too easy, is it too hard, are are you, you know, a
eighteen year old college dropout trying to build a semiconductor company.
I don't know, maybe that's not the right company for you to build um as your first step out.
So that's really what the the call was um in the essay.
And it kind of blew up far more than I expected it to.
Yeah, yeah.
revolutionaries.
That is that's exactly the right question.
And I think the answer is like, of course, you don't have to be like that to to do it.
Like uh it's just much easier if you are.
Um I mean you don't have to look any further than space launch to see this.
It's like the billionaire space cowboys.
Yep.
Elon, Bezos, Branson.
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