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Money is a scoreboard where you can rank how you're doing against other people.
If you are at the top in entertainment, you earn money that you can never justify to ordinary people doing proper jobs. You can't.
I don't make money doing my podcast. I've learned that people want to hire creative people who are already doing something when they approach them.
The biggest neurological turn-on for people is other people. This is what really excites us. In reward terms, it's not money; it's not being given cash - that's nice - it's doing stuff with our peers, watching us, collaborating with us.
I think that lawyers are terrible at admitting that they're wrong. And not just admitting it; also realizing it. Most lawyers are very successful, and they think that because they're making money and people think well of them, they must be doing everything right.
With a regular venture fund, you raise, let's say, a billion dollars, and then over the next three or four years, you've got to invest that money; otherwise, the people who invested with you will say, 'What are you doing? You're just collecting fees on our money.'