Sam Schillace: evaluation

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…Yeah. So I think the lesson there is truly understand if the value is real, versus, this sounds really cool, you think a lot of... Would you want it? I think is a nice exercise there. We pick on poor Elon, but I feel like with a lot of his products, at least he... He's got lots of other issues, but he articulates clear user value even in the beginning when he's hyping things up. Like Teslas, right? Okay, so electric cars weren't ready, he did the Roadsters, whatever. But he at least articulated this idea that we're going to put a lot of batteries in these things. They're going to really be real cars. They're going to have a real range. We're going to figure out the charging problems. As an end user I'm like, "Okay, that's great. Now I have a car that works like a car that solves some problems that's way cheaper to operate, because the fuel is cheaper. He's solving all the end user problems for me." That at least makes sense. Even if you don't believe that he's going to do it or believe in the way he did it, at least the end user value proposition makes sense, right? You have this other great quote in your newsletter, "People are lazy. Look beyond cool too, on how much easier new tool or tech makes someone's life. Convenience always wins." Can you talk about that, just this realization people are just lazy and that's the key?…

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