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01 / belief
“The company thing cannot fail.” I think that type of perseverance . . . Look, every single great start-up has had these dark moments of death or near death.”
02 / belief
“I think a lot of that comes out of just a general sense of vigorousness and vitality that I think is somewhat correlated with this sense of ambition, too.”
03 / belief
“For example, I think very good investors are the right degree of optimistic but also realistic, whereas founders are too optimistic, which they should be.”
04 / belief
“The person who’s hyper conscientious, who really dots every i and crosses every t — it’s exceedingly rare, I think, to find someone that is really, really conscientious and also really open.”
05 / belief
“In a city like San Francisco, where it’s hard to go out and not see someone running, I don’t think it’s particularly remarkable to be a runner. But yes, I think we have very different philosophies when it comes to exercise.”
06 / belief
“I appreciate the questions are very colorful, better than some of the questions we’ve gotten. I think no one has, to date, asked us how to screen for human Martian settlers.”
07 / belief
“I think there are psychometric personalities — I imagine mine — that are relentlessly interested in improving, and for that, getting a tight feedback loop with any type of numerical score is very good and very simple.”
08 / belief
“I think that the amazing thing about the reality we live in today is yes, you can interview literally millions of mentors on YouTube for free, basically anywhere in the world.”
09 / belief
“I think the one thing I’d add to that is that the best people are ones that view you as a way to gain advantage for themselves.”
10 / belief
“I think there are many people who immigrate to San Francisco and California who feel similarly.”
11 / belief
“I’d be looking and asking for groups of people — I would make no case on what form of religion is the best — but groups of people that are very connected on some very deep level because otherwise, I think you can end up with something that blows up.”
12 / belief
“I think there’s a humbling lesson there that you could learn in the opposite direction about the JFK assassination.”
13 / belief
“I would probably say that I agree with that, but I think, ultimately, the mitochondrial efficiency that that person has is a by-product of the nutrition they got early on in life.”
14 / belief
“I really think, and this theory is definitely not mine — there are all sorts of researchers on Twitter that are expert at this — but I think a lot of what is driving American mood today or conversation today is a byproduct of lithium we put in the water or plastics we consumed from when we were children.”