Sam Lessin: belief

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…You also have a tip about how to handle famous people that you might meet. There's so many ways. There's a bunch of tips about, I think, generally famous people, but I think there's this thing which is not being sycophantic is what I basically say, but also not being ridiculous is almost the way I would frame it in this conversation, which the ridiculous is if you go up to Mark Zuckerberg and everyone knows what he looks like and who he is and you're like, "Hi, I'm Sam. And who are you?" You're like, "What are you doing?" It's ridiculous. On the other hand, going up and being like, "You're the most important person I've ever met." Is wrong. And so there's a way to, again, it's about grace as much as anything else and recognizing that they're people. And again, you're playing an iterative game and the best thing you can do is say, as much as it might actually be, this is not my only opportunity to meet Mark. And in an ideal world when I walk away, I'm like, "That was a pretty nice person. Maybe I want to talk to them again." Now going up and being like, "I need your email address and phone number." It's like, no, let him offer it. That type of stuff I think matters. Maybe one last tip is you actually start with this one of this line of great to see you when you meet someone versus nice to see you again.…

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