Winston Weinberg

There are certain deals where you want one thing from the deal and nothing else matters.

If you want to hire somebody, hire them, whatever they want to be hired, and put them in the position that they want.

Yeah, I know.

If Pat's listening, he definitely needs to give some credit to Sarah here.

Yeah, Sarah actually was... So our first investor was OpenAI, and then our first two angel investors were Sarah Guo and Elad Gil.

Yeah.

So I played sports when I was in high school and then didn't as much when I was in college.

And when you start a startup, things get pretty stressful.

And I had a mentor who gave me advice of basically like, hey, stop lifting so many weights and start trying to run a mile.

And I remember when I started running a mile, I think I was at like eight minutes or something.

It was really, really bad.

I was like pretty out of shape.

And I had basically a goal to get up every single morning and just reduce my mile time as fast as possible.

And the way that I did it is I'm going to run one mile no matter what, and then just kind of see if I can reduce the back end of the mile again, down, down, down, down, down until I can get to as fast as I possibly can.

And the outcome of that, which I think really helped was, and something I'm actually trying to do more and more in my life, is every morning when I wake up, I get up pretty early and I just try to destroy myself and run as fast as I possibly can.

It just reduces my stress for the rest of the day.

And I've found that over time, a lot of company building is just making very good decisions.

And if you start your day off with basically something that is very challenging in a physical way, you kind of like have this stress relief through the rest of your day.

Your body has like absorbed that stress.

And I very much believe that in everything else too.