If you can go from chatting with billionaires to chatting with a prison guard at your hotel bar without any change in how you act, you’ve made it.

Saw @Alfred_Lin speak tonight He’s a VC at Sequoia and investor in Airbnb, Doordash, and more I wrote down a bunch of notes but my favorite quote was: “Try everything to give you an edge” Most people don’t try everything because they’re afraid to look dumb But looking dumb is worth it to get an edge because an edge is how you get rich Read the weird book. Try the risky marketing stunt. Take a chance on unproven talent. Whatever you can do to get an edge. Edge is everything.

Philosopher-king CEO is easy mode Jester-king CEO is hard mode Can you obtain king money and power while remaining a goofy goober? I believe yes

Siri is so bad there's startups raising tens of millions to build what Siri should’ve been. Generational bag fumble by apple. Also, Apple’s unforced error forced others to waste time building what they should’ve. Inefficient market hypothesis.

“The best early stage investors are building relationships with someone who's going to build a company before that person even realizes that they're going to build a company” - @KTmBoyle

VCs when they know you’ll be a founder before you do:

Send to a friend who keeps applying to YC instead of just making something people want

CMOs make their team buy our meme software It was inevitable, really. Memes make millions.

Was at cafe talking to someone about University of Michigan. Older gent 60+ walks over and says he's an alumni and asks when I graduated "Uhh well I dropped out in 2016" "One of those Google kids?" "Sorta" "What do you do now?" Uhhh how do I tell 60+ year old man I make meme software for a living? "Uh well you know the memes on your timeline like Instagram and Facebook? Well I build the software where people make those memes" *takes him second to process* "I love memes! Not to get political or anything but I just posted one about Trump earlier on Facebook." He gives me his realtor card. He is now finding me an office. This is how deals are done.

> Guy Fieri is a meme > I run a meme software > This is R&D > File it as a business expense