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Key takeaways
- We don't have to figure out how light bulbs work.
- You don't need mentors, but you need to learn from people ahead of you.
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0:00Is a mentor required? No. But all of humanity has been built on us [music] standing on our forefather's shoulders and taking what they learned. We don't have to figure out how light bulbs work. I have no idea how the internet works, but I know that it works. And so we just start where they kind of lay off the baton and then we pick it up [music] from there and we and we run the next however many and then we die and we the next guy. You don't need mentors, but you need to learn from people ahead of you. I consume a tremendous amount of [music] Elon, Basos, Zuck, anything that I can find. And the whole goal is I want to think [music] about their decision-m process as it relates to what they did.
0:34And so I [music] think in models not mentors.