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I do a $106 million launch. My mom got to see it, which is really cool. She dies 4 weeks later.
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It was just like, how am I supposed to show up right now? So, I write these tweets as notes to self.
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>> I had never heard you talk like that publicly before. >> Yeah. I'm like, what do I need to hear
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right now? And I was like, I'll write that, which is like, I just have to keep fighting. And people [music] will judge
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how much you love someone by how much you choose to suffer. I don't think the person that you lost probably wants you
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to suffer. One of the lessons that I've learned from an entrepreneurship perspective translated into life is we
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[music] will get these moments of dissatisfaction or discomfort and be like, I'm life sucks. I need to change
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something. But my emotional discomfort is not an adequate reason to change what I'm doing. And so there's all these
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other skills that are still required to be successful in business. But if I can compress 14 years of business advice,
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the first thing I would say is you have to decide whether you care more about your future than what other people think
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about your future. Like, someone's version of you has to die because everything in the very beginning of
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entrepreneurship comes down to one thing, which is fear. And it makes sense to be afraid. It's because we want
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certainty. But the only way to know is to start. The second thing I've learned is that the fastest way to build a $10
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million business is not the fastest way to build a $100 million business. Because focus and patience are the two
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[music] enduring competitive advantages because they're so anti-human. And so this is where entrepreneurs will
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skyrocket. And I'll unpack that concept. >> So, how are you thinking about your business in the world of AI?
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>> I'm a big AI advocate. But people are using AI in the wrong places. Like, outsourcing thinking and decision-making
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to AI is a really bad decision because you will just get dumber. This is the best asset I've got for now. So, I want
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to keep it as sharp as I can. >> Finally, this is like the the absolute raw truth I could possibly give, which
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is the single best financial decision that I ever made. >> And that is