If you listen to Founders Podcast or How To Take Over The World:

- What are your favorite things about them?
- What do you wish they did better?

This was the weirdest thing to me about SF

Who is the most ambitious person you know?

Ancient Greece: Aristotle, Diogenes, Alexander the Great

Renaissance Florence: Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Botticelli, Brunelleschi

The Bloomsbury Group: Virginia Woolf, E.M. Forster, John Maynard Keynes

Shockley Lab: Gordon Moore, C. Sheldon Roberts, Eugene Kleiner, Robert…

Caravaggio was a menace.

Age 33: Assaults waiter with a plate

Age 35: Killed a dude in a duel

Age 36: Knighted ?

Age 37: Imprisoned for something else. Escapes.

Fascinated by light. But ultimately succumbed to darkness.

One path to success:

1. Get in the room
Find a way to be physically located around the people you want to be like. Even if it means sweeping the floors.

2. Stay in the room
Don't fuck things up, don't be weird, don't be a dick, etc.

3. Find & learn the skill that people…

Make tech beautiful again

We brought Ted to life

He ended up roasting all of our friends’ startups

If you are interested in building AI toys with us, DM me

I always thought that 'wanting to leave a legacy' was a strange motivator.

Even if you manage to create something that lasts after you die (Brand, Institution, Building, etc.) there's no telling how people might butcher it.

In fact, your legacy might even get twisted into…

“Dior dressed the rich, Balenciaga the very rich.”

'Make the rich feel rich again.'

That's how Christian Dior rose to fame.

In 1946, the world was still reeling from the devastation of World War II.

And women's fashion echoed that: plain, boxy, and masculine. To Dior, this was an opportunity.

An opportunity to bring back…

First round of interviews went out.

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There’s a reason Zuck is betting so heavily on AR/VR.

Despite owning the attention of the world, he still doesn’t own the platforms he operates on (Apple, Android).

He’s always at the mercy of Tim and Sundar.

So he’s been fighting hard to own the hardware layer.

Until…

Turns out Kate Middleton was heads down building at HFØ

Looking for a co-conspirator for a project I can't stop thinking about:

About you:
- High energy
- iOS dev / designer
- Lives on the fringes of the internet

DM me w/ your
1. Portfolio
2. The weirdest behavior you engage w/ online

1. Figure out what you want
2. Go at it w/ maximum energy

The problem here is that most people die without ever figuring out what they want.

I'm still figuring this out.

But here's what has helped me (so far):

1. Realize you're going to die. And after you die, you won't care…