Jason Calacanis: belief

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…I think we should have glaze over this. The set of people you've already talked about, clearly there's something special about the way you build relationships. You’re keen to spot yourself as a hustler, as someone that works hard, as someone that is extremely driven. But I think the way that you think about this is oh my God, are you good at building relationships and making it so people want to help you? Helping them, knowing that over the next 10 years, that's going to be a good bet. I think enthusiasm is contagious. I've always been very enthusiastic about what I do. I always pick up the check and I always set up dinners with a lot of people. I always introduce people to other people with no intent of capitalizing on them. Tim O'Reilly invited me to a food camp early on where Larry Page came in his helicopter and landed it outside of food camp. I was like Larry, what are you doing? You realize how douchey it is to land from a helicopter? He's like, "You think so?" I was like dude, come on man. Just land it at the airport. We know you're rich, you don't have to fly your goddamn helicopter from Palo Alto. He's like, "You're probably right, Jason." He was pretty funny. But he did really have them clear the field so he could land his helicopter. He was taking helicopter lessons at the time. I'm not speaking at a school, he literally landed his helicopter there. Anyway, Tim O’Reilly said something about if you attract very little from the network you're building, you do really well, but you don't need to attract all the value. Yeah. It's like the Bill Gates' Platform quote.…

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