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While traditional investors relied on news, intuition, and corporate earnings reports, Simons took a scientific approach: • He hired mathematicians, physicists, and computer scientists instead of traders. • He collected data on stock prices going back to the 1800s. • He built mathematical models to predict short-term price movements.

While traditional investors relied on news, intuition, and corporate earnings reports, Simons took a scientific approach: • He hired mathematicians, physicists, and computer scientists instead of traders. • He collected data on stock prices going back to the 1800s. • He built mathematical models to predict short-term price movements.

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Former SpaceX astronaut Garrett Reisman reveals the single prism Elon Musk runs every major decision through "He measures pretty much every major decision by whether or not it brings the day when we have a self-sustainable colony on Mars sooner or later" "That's the prism by which he makes every single decision he makes" "He's got an idea and he'll keep pushing, and he gives us aggressive timelines that we have to work to" "We work really hard to try to meet them. It's hard when you're doing stuff that's this complicated to predict exactly how long it's going to take" "We end up falling a little bit behind, but we do our best"

Former SpaceX astronaut Garrett Reisman reveals the single prism Elon Musk runs every major decision through "He measures pretty much every major decision by whether or not it brings the day when we have a self-sustainable colony on Mars sooner or later" "That's the prism by which he makes every single decision he makes" "He's got an idea and he'll keep pushing, and he gives us aggressive timelines that we have to work to" "We work really hard to try to meet them. It's hard when you're doing stuff that's this complicated to predict exactly how long it's going to take" "We end up falling a little bit behind, but we do our best"

13,947,133 views • 8 days ago

Elon Musk reveals the single question he uses to spot liars in interviews: "When I interview somebody, I really just ask them to tell me the story of their career, what are some of the tougher problems they dealt with, how they dealt with those, and how they made decisions at key transition points. Usually that's enough to get a very good gut feel about someone." Elon explains what he's looking for: "What I'm really looking for is evidence of exceptional ability. Did they face really difficult problems and overcome them?" Then he shares how to tell if someone is lying about their accomplishments: "You want to make sure that if there was some significant accomplishment, were they really responsible, or was somebody else more responsible? The person who actually had to struggle with the problem, they really understand it. They don't forget. You can ask them very detailed questions about it and they will know the answer. The person who was not truly responsible for that accomplishment will not know the details." On whether college degrees matter: "There's no need to have a college degree at all. Or even high school. If somebody graduated from a great university, that may be an indication they'll be capable of great things, but it's not necessarily the case. Look at Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, Steve Jobs. These guys didn't graduate from college. But if you had a chance to hire them, of course that would be a good idea." He concludes: "I'm just looking for evidence of exceptional ability. If there's a track record of exceptional achievement, it's likely that will continue into the future."

Elon Musk reveals the single question he uses to spot liars in interviews: "When I interview somebody, I really just ask them to tell me the story of their career, what are some of the tougher problems they dealt with, how they dealt with those, and how they made decisions at key transition points. Usually that's enough to get a very good gut feel about someone." Elon explains what he's looking for: "What I'm really looking for is evidence of exceptional ability. Did they face really difficult problems and overcome them?" Then he shares how to tell if someone is lying about their accomplishments: "You want to make sure that if there was some significant accomplishment, were they really responsible, or was somebody else more responsible? The person who actually had to struggle with the problem, they really understand it. They don't forget. You can ask them very detailed questions about it and they will know the answer. The person who was not truly responsible for that accomplishment will not know the details." On whether college degrees matter: "There's no need to have a college degree at all. Or even high school. If somebody graduated from a great university, that may be an indication they'll be capable of great things, but it's not necessarily the case. Look at Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, Steve Jobs. These guys didn't graduate from college. But if you had a chance to hire them, of course that would be a good idea." He concludes: "I'm just looking for evidence of exceptional ability. If there's a track record of exceptional achievement, it's likely that will continue into the future."

1,022,769 views • 5 days ago

Elon Musk reveals the brutal math behind why a single hour of his time is worth $100 million "Tesla this year will do over $100 billion in revenue, so that's $2 billion a week. If I make slightly better decisions I can affect the outcome by a billion dollars. The marginal value of a better decision can easily be in the course of an hour $100 million" "You have to look at it on a percentage basis. If you look at it in absolute terms, I would never get any sleep. I'd just keep working and work my brain hotter, trying to get as much as possible out of this meat computer"

Elon Musk reveals the brutal math behind why a single hour of his time is worth $100 million "Tesla this year will do over $100 billion in revenue, so that's $2 billion a week. If I make slightly better decisions I can affect the outcome by a billion dollars. The marginal value of a better decision can easily be in the course of an hour $100 million" "You have to look at it on a percentage basis. If you look at it in absolute terms, I would never get any sleep. I'd just keep working and work my brain hotter, trying to get as much as possible out of this meat computer"

3,317,948 views • 19 days ago

Mark Cuban reveals the two times he got fired that confirmed he could never work for anyone else "My first job out of college I worked for Mellon Bank. I started a rookies club where I reached out to executives, and my boss calls me in and just starts screaming at me, how could you do this, you work for me. I knew I wasn't destined there" "Then I got a job selling software. A customer wanted me to come close a $15,000 deal, $1,500 commission to me. My boss said no, you need to be there to open the store. I made the executive decision to go get the check" "I figured all would be forgiven. Sales cures all. He fired me" "Those experiences confirmed what I already knew, that I was a shitty employee and I better start my own thing" "I took the check back. I might not be a good employee but I'm not stupid"

Mark Cuban reveals the two times he got fired that confirmed he could never work for anyone else "My first job out of college I worked for Mellon Bank. I started a rookies club where I reached out to executives, and my boss calls me in and just starts screaming at me, how could you do this, you work for me. I knew I wasn't destined there" "Then I got a job selling software. A customer wanted me to come close a $15,000 deal, $1,500 commission to me. My boss said no, you need to be there to open the store. I made the executive decision to go get the check" "I figured all would be forgiven. Sales cures all. He fired me" "Those experiences confirmed what I already knew, that I was a shitty employee and I better start my own thing" "I took the check back. I might not be a good employee but I'm not stupid"

901,748 views • 9 days ago

Steve Jobs explains exactly why he thinks Microsoft makes "third rate products" "The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste" "I don't mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way. They don't think of original ideas and they don't bring much culture into their products" "Proportionally spaced fonts come from typesetting and beautiful books. That's where one gets the idea. If it weren't for the Mac, they would never have that in their products" "I'm saddened not by Microsoft's success. I have no problem with their success, they've earned it for the most part" "I have a problem with the fact that they just make really third rate products"

Steve Jobs explains exactly why he thinks Microsoft makes "third rate products" "The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste" "I don't mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way. They don't think of original ideas and they don't bring much culture into their products" "Proportionally spaced fonts come from typesetting and beautiful books. That's where one gets the idea. If it weren't for the Mac, they would never have that in their products" "I'm saddened not by Microsoft's success. I have no problem with their success, they've earned it for the most part" "I have a problem with the fact that they just make really third rate products"

1,099,755 views • 12 days ago

Naval Ravikant: "You're going to die. It's all going to zero. What's there to stress about?" "Stress is when your mind has two conflicting desires at once. You want to be liked, but you want to do something selfish. You don't want to go to work, but you want to make money. You have two conflicting desires, and that's stress." Naval explains the difference between stress and anxiety: "Anxiety is this pervasive, unidentifiable stress where you're stressed out all the time and you're not even sure why. The reason is you have so many unresolved problems that have piled up in your life, you can no longer identify what the problems are. There's this mountain of garbage in your mind. A little bit is poking out the top like an iceberg; that's anxiety. But underneath, there's a lot of unresolved things." He shares his personal anxiety resolver: "One big anxiety resolver for me is just ruminating on death. You're going to die. It's all going to zero. You cannot take anything with you. If you can keep that idea in front of you at all times, what's there to stress about?" Naval reframes what "wasted time" really means: "What is wasted time? Everything is wasted time in a sense because nothing matters in the ultimate. But in each moment, it's the only thing that matters. So if you're doing something you want to do and you're fully there for it it's not wasted time. If your mind is running away, wishing you were somewhere else, anticipating the future, regretting the past, that's wasted time. That's time you're not present for." He concludes: "People get worried about dying and no longer being here. But they don't realize that so much of their life is spent not being here in any case."

Naval Ravikant: "You're going to die. It's all going to zero. What's there to stress about?" "Stress is when your mind has two conflicting desires at once. You want to be liked, but you want to do something selfish. You don't want to go to work, but you want to make money. You have two conflicting desires, and that's stress." Naval explains the difference between stress and anxiety: "Anxiety is this pervasive, unidentifiable stress where you're stressed out all the time and you're not even sure why. The reason is you have so many unresolved problems that have piled up in your life, you can no longer identify what the problems are. There's this mountain of garbage in your mind. A little bit is poking out the top like an iceberg; that's anxiety. But underneath, there's a lot of unresolved things." He shares his personal anxiety resolver: "One big anxiety resolver for me is just ruminating on death. You're going to die. It's all going to zero. You cannot take anything with you. If you can keep that idea in front of you at all times, what's there to stress about?" Naval reframes what "wasted time" really means: "What is wasted time? Everything is wasted time in a sense because nothing matters in the ultimate. But in each moment, it's the only thing that matters. So if you're doing something you want to do and you're fully there for it it's not wasted time. If your mind is running away, wishing you were somewhere else, anticipating the future, regretting the past, that's wasted time. That's time you're not present for." He concludes: "People get worried about dying and no longer being here. But they don't realize that so much of their life is spent not being here in any case."

290,576 views • 4 days ago

Elon Musk reveals the single idea that explains why he keeps working despite being worth $800 billion "When I was a teenager, I had an existential crisis trying to figure out what's the meaning of life. It doesn't seem to be any meaning" "For me at least, the religious texts that I read did not seem convincing. Then I started reading the philosophers. You have to be careful of reading German philosophers as a teenager. It's definitely not going to help with your depression" "Reading Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, as a kid you're like, whoa" "Then I read Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. What Douglas Adams was saying is that we don't really know what the right questions are to ask. The real problem is trying to formulate the question. To really have the right question, you need a much bigger computer than Earth" "The universe is the answer. What is the question? Or what are the questions?" "The more we can expand the scope and scale of consciousness, the better we can understand what questions to ask about the answer that is the universe" "The more we can expand consciousness, become a multi-planet species, ultimately a multi-stellar species, we have a chance of figuring out what the hell's going on" "This is why I think we should have more humans and more digital, both biological and digital consciousness"

Elon Musk reveals the single idea that explains why he keeps working despite being worth $800 billion "When I was a teenager, I had an existential crisis trying to figure out what's the meaning of life. It doesn't seem to be any meaning" "For me at least, the religious texts that I read did not seem convincing. Then I started reading the philosophers. You have to be careful of reading German philosophers as a teenager. It's definitely not going to help with your depression" "Reading Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, as a kid you're like, whoa" "Then I read Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. What Douglas Adams was saying is that we don't really know what the right questions are to ask. The real problem is trying to formulate the question. To really have the right question, you need a much bigger computer than Earth" "The universe is the answer. What is the question? Or what are the questions?" "The more we can expand the scope and scale of consciousness, the better we can understand what questions to ask about the answer that is the universe" "The more we can expand consciousness, become a multi-planet species, ultimately a multi-stellar species, we have a chance of figuring out what the hell's going on" "This is why I think we should have more humans and more digital, both biological and digital consciousness"

1,261,830 views • 14 days ago

Rick Rubin reveals the three completely different creative processes used by Eminem, Jay-Z, and Anthony Kiedis "Eminem will always be writing in a book, always writing all the time. I asked him, are all these rhymes used? He's like no, 99% of what I write I'll never use, just to stay engaged in the process of writing" "Jay-Z doesn't write anything down. He listens to the beat, hums, then goes on the mic 20 minutes later and just says a whole complicated verse. No paper, no writing, nothing" "Anthony Kiedis sings along with an idea of a melody but he doesn't yet have words, just nonsense words automatically real time, then listens back and says this phrase sounds good. It's like a puzzle"

Rick Rubin reveals the three completely different creative processes used by Eminem, Jay-Z, and Anthony Kiedis "Eminem will always be writing in a book, always writing all the time. I asked him, are all these rhymes used? He's like no, 99% of what I write I'll never use, just to stay engaged in the process of writing" "Jay-Z doesn't write anything down. He listens to the beat, hums, then goes on the mic 20 minutes later and just says a whole complicated verse. No paper, no writing, nothing" "Anthony Kiedis sings along with an idea of a melody but he doesn't yet have words, just nonsense words automatically real time, then listens back and says this phrase sounds good. It's like a puzzle"

1,428,213 views • 16 days ago

Kevin O'Leary reveals the trust fund structure he set up for his kids the day after he became rich "When the learning company got sold for about $4.2 billion and 10 of us were founders, we woke up and said we're rich. I went to the lawyers and said I want to set up a trust that pays for my kids until they finish college and then they get nothing" "The lawyer said what the hell's that. I said it's a way I can provide for them to set them up in life but not entitle them. I was taking a cue from my mother's strategy" His mother's strategy: "When I graduated, my mother said I've got great news, I'm coming to the graduation, but I also have some other news, no more checks. I said what do you mean. She said the dead bird under the nest never learns how to fly. No more checks. You're going to have to figure this out on your own" "I had a tough couple of years. I couldn't even pay the rent. But it worked out and I got motivated"

Kevin O'Leary reveals the trust fund structure he set up for his kids the day after he became rich "When the learning company got sold for about $4.2 billion and 10 of us were founders, we woke up and said we're rich. I went to the lawyers and said I want to set up a trust that pays for my kids until they finish college and then they get nothing" "The lawyer said what the hell's that. I said it's a way I can provide for them to set them up in life but not entitle them. I was taking a cue from my mother's strategy" His mother's strategy: "When I graduated, my mother said I've got great news, I'm coming to the graduation, but I also have some other news, no more checks. I said what do you mean. She said the dead bird under the nest never learns how to fly. No more checks. You're going to have to figure this out on your own" "I had a tough couple of years. I couldn't even pay the rent. But it worked out and I got motivated"

1,411,692 views • 18 days ago

In 2019, MIT professor Patrick Winston gave a legendary 1-hour lecture called “How to Speak.” It has 18M+ views for a reason. His frameworks: • Your ideas are like your children • The 5-minute rule for job talks • Why jokes fail at the start 15 lessons on communication:

In 2019, MIT professor Patrick Winston gave a legendary 1-hour lecture called “How to Speak.” It has 18M+ views for a reason. His frameworks: • Your ideas are like your children • The 5-minute rule for job talks • Why jokes fail at the start 15 lessons on communication:

5,102,673 views • 2 months ago

Elon Musk reveals why he’s building rockets, AI, and humanoid robots at the same time "The overall goal of my companies is to maximize the probability that civilization has a great future, and to expand consciousness beyond earth" "We need to assume that life and consciousness is extremely rare and it might only be us" "The image in my mind is of a tiny candle in a vast darkness, a tiny candle of consciousness that could easily go out" "That's why it's important to make life multiplanetary, such that if there's a natural or man-made disaster on earth, that consciousness continues" "That's the purpose of SpaceX" "With robotics and AI, this is really the path to abundance for all. The only way to solve global poverty and give everyone a very high standard of living is AI and robotics" "My prediction is there'll be more robots than people. Everyone on earth is going to have one and going to want one. We will make so many robots and AI that they will saturate all human needs. You won't be able to even think of something to ask the robot for" "Who wouldn't want a robot to watch over your kids, take care of your pet, or protect an elderly parent? There just aren't enough young people to take care of the old people" "Overall I'm very optimistic. We're headed for a future of amazing abundance. We are in the most interesting time in history"

Elon Musk reveals why he’s building rockets, AI, and humanoid robots at the same time "The overall goal of my companies is to maximize the probability that civilization has a great future, and to expand consciousness beyond earth" "We need to assume that life and consciousness is extremely rare and it might only be us" "The image in my mind is of a tiny candle in a vast darkness, a tiny candle of consciousness that could easily go out" "That's why it's important to make life multiplanetary, such that if there's a natural or man-made disaster on earth, that consciousness continues" "That's the purpose of SpaceX" "With robotics and AI, this is really the path to abundance for all. The only way to solve global poverty and give everyone a very high standard of living is AI and robotics" "My prediction is there'll be more robots than people. Everyone on earth is going to have one and going to want one. We will make so many robots and AI that they will saturate all human needs. You won't be able to even think of something to ask the robot for" "Who wouldn't want a robot to watch over your kids, take care of your pet, or protect an elderly parent? There just aren't enough young people to take care of the old people" "Overall I'm very optimistic. We're headed for a future of amazing abundance. We are in the most interesting time in history"

618,499 views • 13 days ago

Mark Cuban reveals why he thinks taking out a loan to start a business is one of the dumbest things you can do "If you're starting a business and you take out a loan, you're a moron" "There's so many uncertainties involved with starting a business, yet the one certainty you'll have is paying back your loan. The bank doesn't care about your business unless it's family" "99% of small businesses you can start with next to no capital. It's more about effort" "Small businesses don't fail for lack of capital. They fail for lack of brains, they fail for lack of effort" "If you're going to compete with me in one of my businesses, you better realize I'm working 24 hours a day to kick your a**"

Mark Cuban reveals why he thinks taking out a loan to start a business is one of the dumbest things you can do "If you're starting a business and you take out a loan, you're a moron" "There's so many uncertainties involved with starting a business, yet the one certainty you'll have is paying back your loan. The bank doesn't care about your business unless it's family" "99% of small businesses you can start with next to no capital. It's more about effort" "Small businesses don't fail for lack of capital. They fail for lack of brains, they fail for lack of effort" "If you're going to compete with me in one of my businesses, you better realize I'm working 24 hours a day to kick your a**"

309,980 views • 8 days ago

Mark Zuckerberg reveals the hack he pulled the same week he was supposed to be studying for finals at Harvard "I was taking this course Rome of Augustus. I hadn't really done much of the reading. I mostly just spent my time programming. I could have used reading period to study, but instead I spent it building Facebook" "What I did was I hacked together this website where I downloaded the 200 or so images that were going to be potentially on the final and I built this site where it showed one of the images and you could contribute what you thought was significant about it. I emailed it to the class list. The professor mentioned that the grades on the final had never been higher"

Mark Zuckerberg reveals the hack he pulled the same week he was supposed to be studying for finals at Harvard "I was taking this course Rome of Augustus. I hadn't really done much of the reading. I mostly just spent my time programming. I could have used reading period to study, but instead I spent it building Facebook" "What I did was I hacked together this website where I downloaded the 200 or so images that were going to be potentially on the final and I built this site where it showed one of the images and you could contribute what you thought was significant about it. I emailed it to the class list. The professor mentioned that the grades on the final had never been higher"

725,842 views • 17 days ago

Jeff Bezos reveals why he thinks AI will cause a labor shortage, not mass unemployment "There's so many people who are afraid AI is going to take their job. I think there's going to be a labor shortage as a result" "All these smart people keep saying there's going to be no more radiologists because AI can read X-rays better, no more software engineers because AI can program better. These people are wrong" "What's really going to happen is it's going to elevate all of these people. You've been digging out a basement with a shovel, and somebody is about to hand you a bulldozer" "We're going to have so much productivity that a lot of people with two-earner income households, one of them is going to drop out of the workforce" "I predict we will actually have deflation of certain core things. Food will get cheaper and housing construction will get cheaper"

Jeff Bezos reveals why he thinks AI will cause a labor shortage, not mass unemployment "There's so many people who are afraid AI is going to take their job. I think there's going to be a labor shortage as a result" "All these smart people keep saying there's going to be no more radiologists because AI can read X-rays better, no more software engineers because AI can program better. These people are wrong" "What's really going to happen is it's going to elevate all of these people. You've been digging out a basement with a shovel, and somebody is about to hand you a bulldozer" "We're going to have so much productivity that a lot of people with two-earner income households, one of them is going to drop out of the workforce" "I predict we will actually have deflation of certain core things. Food will get cheaper and housing construction will get cheaper"

503,359 views • 13 days ago

Jeff Bezos reveals the moment an early Amazon executive told him he had enough ideas to destroy Amazon: "Early in Amazon's history, Jeff Wilke came to me one day and said, Jeff, you have enough ideas to destroy Amazon. You have enough ideas per minute, per day, per week to destroy Amazon." "I was like, what do you mean?" "He said, you have to release the work at the right rate that the organization can accept it." "Every time I released an idea, I was creating a backlog, a queue, work in process. It was just stacking up, it was adding no value. In fact, it was creating distraction." "So I started prioritizing the ideas better, keeping lists of them, keeping them to myself until the organization was ready for the ideas."

Jeff Bezos reveals the moment an early Amazon executive told him he had enough ideas to destroy Amazon: "Early in Amazon's history, Jeff Wilke came to me one day and said, Jeff, you have enough ideas to destroy Amazon. You have enough ideas per minute, per day, per week to destroy Amazon." "I was like, what do you mean?" "He said, you have to release the work at the right rate that the organization can accept it." "Every time I released an idea, I was creating a backlog, a queue, work in process. It was just stacking up, it was adding no value. In fact, it was creating distraction." "So I started prioritizing the ideas better, keeping lists of them, keeping them to myself until the organization was ready for the ideas."

1,282,313 views • 1 month ago

Kevin O'Leary reveals the guest lecturer who insulted his entire MBA class and turned out to be completely right "He walked in, no slides, no PowerPoint. He said you guys think you're so good. When you walk out of here the real world is gonna kick the living sh*t out of you. A third of you will be a complete failure, another third will be spinning their wheels a decade from now, and the other third will be phenomenal successes" "He claimed experience is very important, and intuition is just experience distilled. Today I'm that guy. I can sit in a room with somebody for 15 minutes and know if I've got a winner, and 99% of the time I'm right"

Kevin O'Leary reveals the guest lecturer who insulted his entire MBA class and turned out to be completely right "He walked in, no slides, no PowerPoint. He said you guys think you're so good. When you walk out of here the real world is gonna kick the living sh*t out of you. A third of you will be a complete failure, another third will be spinning their wheels a decade from now, and the other third will be phenomenal successes" "He claimed experience is very important, and intuition is just experience distilled. Today I'm that guy. I can sit in a room with somebody for 15 minutes and know if I've got a winner, and 99% of the time I'm right"

386,870 views • 11 days ago

Former SpaceX astronaut Garrett Reisman reveals what happened when he compared Elon Musk to Howard Hughes on national TV "On 60 Minutes I said, wouldn't you want to get in on the ground floor and work with Howard Hughes doing all the crazy stuff he was doing?" "As soon as I said it I realized, oh my god, I just compared my boss to a guy who went crazy, peeing in jars, fingernails grown out" "Months later I told him, I meant the young dashing version, not the decrepit one. All I got back was silence" "Then he said, I don't think it's an apt comparison. None of Howard's designs, as brilliant as they were, ever changed the way we live our lives" "It's really important to him to have the legacy of drastically impacting the way all of us live our lives, the way Steve Jobs did"

Former SpaceX astronaut Garrett Reisman reveals what happened when he compared Elon Musk to Howard Hughes on national TV "On 60 Minutes I said, wouldn't you want to get in on the ground floor and work with Howard Hughes doing all the crazy stuff he was doing?" "As soon as I said it I realized, oh my god, I just compared my boss to a guy who went crazy, peeing in jars, fingernails grown out" "Months later I told him, I meant the young dashing version, not the decrepit one. All I got back was silence" "Then he said, I don't think it's an apt comparison. None of Howard's designs, as brilliant as they were, ever changed the way we live our lives" "It's really important to him to have the legacy of drastically impacting the way all of us live our lives, the way Steve Jobs did"

223,722 views • 7 days ago

Peter Thiel reveals the Elon Musk metaphor that changed how he thought about building Palantir "There was an Elon metaphor he told me once, maybe 2010 or 2011. There were these three or four aerospace companies in the US that were really badly managed" "They were these very fat cows on a grassy enclosed field, and if you ever got in there, there was just going to be a bl**dbath" "There's this carnivore and there's a big fence and you got to climb this really big fence. Eventually you get in there" "Both Elon and what we built with Palantir were able to be persistent enough to overcome unnatural barriers and do something very optimistic and fix things" "When we started Palantir, there was nobody who even wanted to give you money. People thought we were insane. If you could get through, you would have no competition"

Peter Thiel reveals the Elon Musk metaphor that changed how he thought about building Palantir "There was an Elon metaphor he told me once, maybe 2010 or 2011. There were these three or four aerospace companies in the US that were really badly managed" "They were these very fat cows on a grassy enclosed field, and if you ever got in there, there was just going to be a bl**dbath" "There's this carnivore and there's a big fence and you got to climb this really big fence. Eventually you get in there" "Both Elon and what we built with Palantir were able to be persistent enough to overcome unnatural barriers and do something very optimistic and fix things" "When we started Palantir, there was nobody who even wanted to give you money. People thought we were insane. If you could get through, you would have no competition"

317,460 views • 10 days ago

MrBeast: "If my mental health was a priority I wouldn't be as successful as I am" "I obviously never would have buried myself alive for seven days. There's a reason no one makes videos like me, not even close. Because no one wants to live the life I live" "There were months I'm flying 200 days a year on a plane. To get these videos done I do everything" "Something I always tell myself is how you feel right now is why no one else does what you do. If you push through this that's just even more of a reason why no one will ever be who you are" "Once you make a couple million dollars why would you live the life I live? Why would you not take weekends off? Why would you not prioritize your sanity? It makes no sense. But that's why no one else does it"

MrBeast: "If my mental health was a priority I wouldn't be as successful as I am" "I obviously never would have buried myself alive for seven days. There's a reason no one makes videos like me, not even close. Because no one wants to live the life I live" "There were months I'm flying 200 days a year on a plane. To get these videos done I do everything" "Something I always tell myself is how you feel right now is why no one else does what you do. If you push through this that's just even more of a reason why no one will ever be who you are" "Once you make a couple million dollars why would you live the life I live? Why would you not take weekends off? Why would you not prioritize your sanity? It makes no sense. But that's why no one else does it"

846,994 views • 25 days ago

Mark Zuckerberg reveals he never actually decided to drop out of Harvard "Dustin pulled me aside and was like you know we're getting to have a lot of users and we have no ops guy. Harvard has this policy where you can take as much time as you want off from school. So we just took one term off" "Of course we raised money from Peter Thiel but we told him the plan and explained that you might go back to school. I think he didn't believe us. We hadn't quite built the tooling and automation, so let's take another term off, and then finally at some point we figured we were out there. But by then we had millions of users"

Mark Zuckerberg reveals he never actually decided to drop out of Harvard "Dustin pulled me aside and was like you know we're getting to have a lot of users and we have no ops guy. Harvard has this policy where you can take as much time as you want off from school. So we just took one term off" "Of course we raised money from Peter Thiel but we told him the plan and explained that you might go back to school. I think he didn't believe us. We hadn't quite built the tooling and automation, so let's take another term off, and then finally at some point we figured we were out there. But by then we had millions of users"

744,570 views • 23 days ago