Ben Gilbert: commitment

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…Yup. I think for most kids, for most people in the world, you would look at that and be like, what arrogance? And look, it’s not like 18-year-old Mark is not arrogant, but I think it’s also, this is why all this stuff we’ve been talking about is important. It’s just not that important to him. He likes building stuff, he likes making stuff. He knows it has value, he knows people will use it. Whether he goes to Harvard, doesn’t go to Harvard, goes to college, doesn’t go to college, it’s just not that big a deal to him I don’t think. Reading in between the lines, it seems like the thing that he was most excited about is oh good. A challenging environment where I will encounter other really smart people like myself who are ambitious. I think that is totally right. Mark gets to Harvard in fall of 2002 and like you said, he goes to class, he does well, but he wants to meet other people and be around other smart folks. He ends up joining the AEPi fraternity there, like my co-host here, my esteemed colleague Ben.…

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