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my interview with @ti_morse on @relentless.
we touch on @flexpa, @rossintel, the roots of @maniacvc and my vision of the future.
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andrew arruda
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andrew arruda
@andrewarruda
refactoring healthcare @flexpa, democratizing law @rossintel, frontier investing @maniacvc. surfer. dad x3. 🥊. views my own. personal account. god bless 🇺🇸.
- when someone cancels a meeting and sends an email instead
00:00 - "marcus aurelius says your only focus should be on getting better at what you're doing. focus on what you're doing. get better at what you're doing. everything else is a complete waste of time."
00:00 - if I asked you about startups, you'd probably give me the skinny on about every book and blog post ever written. paul graham. you know a lot about him. essays. y combinator. hacker news. his vision. his investments. the whole works, right?...
- an absolute @sama banger. "innovation is easier with a relatively small team that has to make a decisive and clear concentrated bet and that doesn't tolerate any mediocre performers. that's it." small, focused, high-performing teams win.
00:00 - "your ability to keep doing interesting things is your willingness to be embarrassed again and go back to step one and start as a beginner and get your ass kicked and look stupid doing things." - @finkd
00:00 - "most people don't take enough risk. especially early in your career. being young, and unknown, and poor that is actually a great gift in terms of the amount of risk you can take and i think people don't capitalize on that enough." - @sama
00:00 - "now, let me tell you what i do know; every day, i come by your work station and we go eat sweetgreens together. you tell me about your startup idea and how fed up you are working at this dying decacorn, and it's great. you know what the best part of my day is?...
- "the god-boy king ceo of silicon valley tech companies is a myth. i've seen these people, i've met these people, i've worked with them. they all rely heavily on the people around them...you have to find other people, and you have to trust them to do their jobs." - @PalmerLuckey
00:00 - solution = cut out the middle and ensure developers are talking to users!
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