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  1. “From solving customers' problems today, I think it is a distraction. And I think one of the things that you learn is like, if you have great strategy, perfect strategy, but poor execution, you don't win because your strategy never makes it to the market. And what's even worse is that you have learned nothing. You don't know whether it was your strategy that was wrong or whether it was your execution that was wrong. All you know is you didn't win. Whereas when you have like a pretty good strategy, a good enough strategy, you're in the right direction and you have a perfect execution. You still don't win immediately, but you know your execution was great. So then you learn, what do you need to do to improve your strategy? You got the execution machine. You go back, you update your strategy, you relaunch. And you keep on doing it until your strategy is perfect. And then you do it. And that's kind of the lesson I repeatedly learned.”

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  2. “Yeah, I don't know if I And it's because when you have look, strategy is super fun. You get to like think about all this pie in the sky stuff. You get to think about if the world operated in rational patterns and you could predict the future, what is going to be the second and third order effect, like you get to use your brain in a really fun philosophical way. But like customers don't care. Like customers don't care about your fancy strategies and like your five-year plan. They care about the product that's in their hands. And so anything that distracts you from thinking about the product in your hands, I think, or maybe worse takes you away”

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  3. “I don't know, having this like cold corporate feeling the way you do with a conference call where there's like kind of heavyweight interactions. And instead, there's just, you can join and leave. You know, like it feels lightweight. It feels like the space exists even when you're not there. And so just creating things like joinable calls, like that feeling of people kind of popping in and just paying attention to whoever's there and letting them leave that the call can flow on without a super heavyweight action that everyone needs to take. I think that was another one where we were just able to kind of agree on the feeling and then you kind of know what to build.”

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  4. “I mean, I think taking a sub part of WhatsApp, or when we talk about video calling, I really won the metaphors was sitting around in your family room when you think about how to make calls work, where when you're sitting in a family, you're not scheduling it. You're not like...”

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  5. “Think those are the three. I think it is like Anchina's story, story metaphor analogy creation. I think it's like Baz's, if we played this out, what principles are we using? And if we kept on using those principles, what would happen? And it is Rob Goldman, who's an amazing kind of metrics growth product leader, being like, look at the dashboard. I mean, look at the dashboard, which is a great central rooting part of my life.”

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  6. “It's another way. I am very bored a lot. It's another way to make sure meetings are really interesting where you're like, okay, let me see what that person is going to say next. Like, let me put myself in their shoes. Let me think about what they're reacting to and why they're going to think that and how they're going to see the world. And again, it just gives me more toolkits because it means when I'm stumped on something, I'm going to be like, What would Rob Goldman say? He'd say, Look at the dashboard. Have I looked at the dashboard? No. Okay, let me go look at the dashboard. You know, like you can kind of load up these different skill sets that people, you know, have been so generous with sharing with me.”

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  7. “And it's all really small thing. It's like a typing indicator is like someone who's about to take a breath, give them something to talk, you know, like the two checkmarks lighting up or like someone's face lighting up when they hear you. You know, it's just a recognition of being heard. These are all super small things. But I think they add up to a feeling of being there.”

    2024-06-23 · Lenny's Podcast · Making an impact through authenticity and curiosity | Ami Vora (CPO at Faire, ex-WhatsApp, FB, IG) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  8. “Space am I in, they could immediately map where they were in the app to kind of the okay, I'm sitting around on my kitchen table and people are joining and leaving calls, you know, just like they're walking in and out of my living room. But it is a family space and the family is there. Or in like, you know, one-on-one disappearing messages, you're like, cool, this is my close friend. We don't need to keep track of everything that we're saying. We're here for a little bit of Bancher, a little bit of relationship, a little bit of like quick, what's your Wi-Fi password and stuff? And whatever's really important, that's what we'll hold on to. And the rest is just like day-to-day normal intimacy.”

    2024-06-23 · Lenny's Podcast · Making an impact through authenticity and curiosity | Ami Vora (CPO at Faire, ex-WhatsApp, FB, IG) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  9. “Separate, even they're distant geographically for whatever reason. You know, we were always going to be apart from the people you cared about. And we really had to build something that would work for literally everyone in the world, like people who are carrying these high-end devices in Western markets who are very tech comfortable and savvy. And people in the low-end markets who were carrying these low-end devices, they weren't that familiar with technology. Maybe their first time online. We had to build something that worked for everyone. And the most universal form of communication is face-to-face. Like when you talk to someone face-to-face, you're not thinking like, how do I present, like, what tool do I have to learn? You just kind of open your mouth and words come out. And that's the feeling that we wanted to create. And that involved a lot of like the app stepping back from communication, creating spaces that felt really intimate so people wouldn't have to think to themselves, what kind of”

    2024-06-23 · Lenny's Podcast · Making an impact through authenticity and curiosity | Ami Vora (CPO at Faire, ex-WhatsApp, FB, IG) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  10. “Yeah, I mean, I think the product metaphor we kind of arrived at for WhatsApp was face to face communication. Our goal there was To make it so that every person in the world could feel connected to the people they cared most about, even when they were”

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  11. “You know what the communication and join pattern should look like. You're not going to build something cold and corporate. You're not going to build something strobe-blighted. You're not going to build something flashy. But you don't have to go and make all those individual decisions. You can kind of buy into the same story. And then people will just naturally build something that feels more consistent.”

    2024-06-23 · Lenny's Podcast · Making an impact through authenticity and curiosity | Ami Vora (CPO at Faire, ex-WhatsApp, FB, IG) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  12. “Is all about principle of decision making and principle of trade offs. There's a few other people where I'm like, I don't know how to solve this problem. Can I load this other person into my head and how would they approach it? And that gives me like a fresh lens on it. And I really like metaphors and analogies because I think especially as you scale a team, narrative becomes increasingly important. Like narrative can carry so much weight and water where otherwise it's kind of similar to like the product review point where either you can tell everybody exactly what to do at every point or you can create a story that we all agree on. And when we all agree on that story, people just know better what to do. Like if we all agree that the feeling of something should be, I'm sitting in Dolores Park with my friends on a sunny Saturday, you know what the iconography, the designers know what iconography should look like.”

    2024-06-23 · Lenny's Podcast · Making an impact through authenticity and curiosity | Ami Vora (CPO at Faire, ex-WhatsApp, FB, IG) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  13. “Think this one came from. I worked for a manager, same as Eric Antono, and he was just a master of the metaphor and analogies. And so whenever I bring him something, he would be like, how is this product going to make you feel? And when is the last time that you felt this way? And you can say, oh, you know, I felt this way when I was hanging with my friends in Dolores Park and be like, cool, tell me what it feels like, why that's the analogy, like what ramifications come out of that. And one thing I like to do is try to build like an emulator for different people in my head. Because I just had the good fortune of working with an amazing number of very different leaders. And so he's one of the people I tried to build an emulator for where I'd be like, okay, I see this thing. I don't know how to solve this problem. What would, how would Eric describe this? You know, like I tried to build one from Baz.”

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  14. “Most of the time, the answer is yes, but it's helpful for me to know boy, this feels like a slog, it is supposed to because I'm still in the valley. And the thing that gets me through the valley is remembering what the summit feels like. When you're on top of it and you're like, this is great. It was absolutely worth it. My life is better in these ways. We're able to solve these problems in these ways. It was worth it.”

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  15. “Make 11 trade offs in your core desktop business that you were not totally sure were going to pay off when you made it to the mobile mountain and you had to do a ton of work. You had to fundamentally rewire a lot of what you're doing without a guarantee what you're going to get there. I mean, you can see it in life when you think about new jobs or new moves or new relationships, like kind of anything that you think about, like you kind of are giving up something that is working pretty well without knowing whether you're going to make it to the top of that next mountain. And that's been really helpful to me just to kind of place where I am on different things where, you know, you can like, you get the inkling that there is a much better way to do this. There really is. Is it going to be worth going down into the valley, climbing up, keeping climbing? Is that going to be worth it?”

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  16. “That is really hard. I'm thinking of things like, you know, maybe the first time I saw this was a lot of companies were really good at desktop. And you could see the mobile mountain like way out over there. But to get there, you had to really”

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  17. “For me, the hill climb is all about the difference between the local optimum and a global optimum. And so that sounds very abstract. But I think a lot of the time when we're doing our job, when we're doing lifestyle, whatever you're doing, you try to just get better and better and you like optimize your current system and then you feel really good about it. And that is great. You're standing on top of the hill. You're looking down. You can see the, I don't know, rolling hills, the sheep, the grass, whatever. But then way off in the distance, you can see like a mountain. You know, one that's even higher than you can't even see the top of it, right? And you have to decide, like, are you going to take the risk of climbing down your hill, crossing like an unknown chasm, and then climbing back up just to get to the same level you started at with more climbing to do to get to that summit.”

    2024-06-23 · Lenny's Podcast · Making an impact through authenticity and curiosity | Ami Vora (CPO at Faire, ex-WhatsApp, FB, IG) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  18. “I mean, I think for what it's worth, I think I still do a fair amount of product pitching in the past few years. There's always someone else to convince. Especially if you want to do something dramatically different. Really, I think the biggest service for people who are starting out a little earlier is that point around like Bringing the recommendation, like really having the opinion and standing behind it with conviction and doing what they need to do to build that conviction for themselves.”

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  19. “So it's stressful. It's so stressful. I think anything you need to make it less stressful is useful And then there have also been times in my career where I would keep the room itself small, but because we were all trying to calibrate on specific principles, I would like record or broadcast the reading to anyone who wanted to see it, just so they could all like see the principles by which we were decision-making and get calibrated on that.”

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  20. “Accountability? Do we want it cross functional at the leadership level and cross functional at the team presenting level? And I think those are normally the groups. I think the thing that gets hard is you often cut out like the middle, where like if it's a working team presenting to the senior leaders on something important, it's really hard because it means people's managers are not in the room and can't help the conversation or other things. And so in order to do that, you have to really have a bunch of implicit trust inside the team that everyone will get the context later, that everyone's going to be kind to everyone else and you don't need like a ton of air cover and the managers trust their team to present in the best possible way.”

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  21. “You know, I mean, I do think that usually fewer people is better. It leads to a sense of being informal. And that is really useful because it lowers the bar on how complete or strong these conversations are. And I'd rather have like a less formal conversation faster than a formal conversation And lose three weeks in the process when we could have been building. I think it needs to be cross functional. I think one of the things you want is cross functional.”

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  22. “The minimal amount of information that you need to make a clean recommendation, because then you are forced to be opinionated. Like otherwise, the opinion can get lost in all of this information. You can hide behind, well, all of these analyses seem to suggest. And instead, you should probably just say, looked at all the data. There's three analyses that suggest this. There's one that suggests that. We think that one is inaccurate or worth taking the risk on. Let's go. Any objections, let me know. Any new context, let me know. That really forces you to deeply understand and take an opinion on the material.”

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  23. “I think the temptation is always to err toward writing more. And what I always really recommend people do is write whatever you need to write and then cut out almost all of it. What you really want to bring to any forum, whether it's like a product review or a written.”

    2024-06-23 · Lenny's Podcast · Making an impact through authenticity and curiosity | Ami Vora (CPO at Faire, ex-WhatsApp, FB, IG) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  24. “Yeah, I think everyone's got, I think there's so many different takes on frameworks. I have like a single system. I mean, actually, I think Baz has written about a bunch of this, and I probably most agree with him, where there's different kinds of product reviews. It's like, what are you trying to solve? What's the timeline on which you're thinking about for these? Is it like a philosophy? Is it a strategic shift? Is it like a day-to-day product decision? And then keeping it extremely short and pointed and then making sure you walk away with principles, not answers.”

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  25. “And a way to do that is when you bring these sorts of questions, what you talk about is like, why did you make this decision? Like, what are the trade-offs you have in mind? Who are you optimizing for? What timeline are you thinking about? What's the risk level we're willing to tolerate? And then you don't have to come back. Like you just, you have enough information that you can take those principles and run with them.”

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  26. “I also think that, like. I think we misuse product reviews sometimes as ways to get decisions, and actually they should be ways to calibrate on principles. So what you don't want is to come to a product review for every single decision that you want to make. Instead, what you want is to come to a product review with one decision, but the goal of that decision is to walk out with principles about how to make these decisions in the future so that you don't have to come to product review, but you still have this like consistent and coherent product that you're building. And so I think when you flip the frame of reviews to being less about, okay, I'm going to bring this information to an exec, my manager, whoever, and they're going to decide every piece. Like you're not actually building that much more capacity in the system. You're like getting fast decision making, but you're not changing who can make really good decisions. And like, I think you always want to change the org to like constantly make better decisions.”

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  27. “Exactly, very similar. And I think this thing that was helpful for me there is that really unlocked what I was looking for from my managers because otherwise I wanted them to be exactly like me. You know, if I assume that I need to bring them information and then they would come to the same conclusion that I would come to, that's very narrow, you know, like they have to be able to look at the exact same information and process it in the same way and come out with the same idea. Whereas if what they're doing is like complementary to me, then I can learn from everyone. You know, like they're going to just have a different view. They're going to have new information that I don't have. And it gives me a lot more space to take accountability.”

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  28. “It's a pretty bad look. But it's really true. As you get more breadth, you are less and less able to go deep on everything that deserves going deep. And you just end up doing a different service than the people on your teams and recognizing that as complementary has been really helpful.”

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  29. “Deep in the way that you are able to do on everything that crosses our desk. And so the best service you can do is actually do the work of making a recommendation. That's the way we're going to be complementary. You know, like the breadth that I normally have to look across means that I'm going to be better at things like pattern matching or giving you more context or telling you stuff that's happening in the company or the industry. But what I'm not going to be better at is like looking at all the information that you looked at and coming up with a meaningful outcome. Like that's what you're going to do. And my little dinosaur brain is going to be like, okay, that sounds like a very reasonable pattern. I've seen other patterns that look like this. Okay, that sounds like an outcome. However, it conflicts with this outcome over here. I can like tell you about that. Does that make sense?”

    2024-06-23 · Lenny's Podcast · Making an impact through authenticity and curiosity | Ami Vora (CPO at Faire, ex-WhatsApp, FB, IG) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  30. “Okay, so a lot of people on my team are coming in to do product reviews and they're worried about it. They're life stressed out. They don't exactly know what to show. And the normal temptation is just to show as much information as possible because that way, like you come in and you think, hey, the people in this room are super smart. I'll show them the information. They will come to the right conclusions. They'll probably make a better decision than I'm going to make. So like my job is to catalog the information and present it. And one of the first things that I talk to people about is, okay, for the purposes of this conversation, I'm going to put myself in the capital executive bucket because that makes what I'm about to say less offensive. Like assume that executives have a little tiny dinosaur brain. Like we all have like a little brontosaurus brain. And we can really only hold like three facts at the same time. We will never be able to go.”

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  31. “When they hear something, there were a few years where, like, I had to be careful that not saying it because whenever I said it, people would be like, she disagrees. I've had to eat with the source and kind of expand my words I use.”

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  32. “For me, the most important thing is just taking a pause. I think when you just take a pause, your body calms down, your mind gets a chance to like breathe a little bit, and then your response is going to be better. But like you got to take the pause because the immediate visceral reaction, you know, is not always, it's going to be primal. It's going to be like protective. It's just when you take a pause, you're like, this is all fine. Like let's just learn, you know.”

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  33. “Yeah, I do think it is just that feedback loop. Like, it's not like I don't have the visceral reaction. It's just that instead of interpreting it as this is a visceral reaction, I got to like shut something down. It's like, this is a visceral reaction. And it's a chance to learn more. Like just reinterpreting some of the feelings in ways that are like more about opening than about closing stuff down.”

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  34. “Tell me more what you think that. I do think that is a word that I say a lot. I do say that a lot because it is true. It's just like, it's fascinating to someone to look at the same movie that I was looking at and come away with a totally different understanding of the plot. You know, like I could sit in the same meeting as other people and they would leave with just a different retelling of what happened. And that to me is fascinating. You know, like. Isn't that surprising that we can all see the same what we think are the same facts and walk away with a totally different narrative? And when you really like go deep into that and you just understand how people see the world. And that is helpful Like curious about things. I like to know more things. And so that just helps me know more things.”

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  35. “Yeah, I mean, I think the hard part is just sublimating your ego a little bit and saying it's more important to get to the outcome than to be right. And I think like, you know, all of growth is a battle with yourself, but this is one of the hardest ones because we all want to be right. We all want to protect ourselves. And it served us, many of us for so long to be right. I try to think about the feedback loop of, I kind of think like all of life is feedback loops. So I just try to think about the feedback loop I'm creating of like I was curious about something. I learned something new. We got to a better outcome. Probably the other person felt better as well as I felt better. Like it's all positive feedback. And you do that a couple of times and the positive feedback far outweighs the desire to be right because now we're like, we're more right. We're more right together. And so just building that as a practice of just noticing how much better things can get when you”

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  36. “And so it was a little bit just accidental evolution in that direction, but it's made like work in life so much more interesting to just be like, hey, what does this person know that I don't know yet? Like it means that every meeting you walk into, you're probably not going to get bored. And I get bored a lot. But like, if you assume that every person there knows something that you don't know, then it's not like just wait to get to the right answer. It's like discover the thing that they know that you don't know and it becomes like just a little bit of uncovering.”

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  37. “Other people have a bunch of information that I do not have. And so I'm just ignoring that. Like I was letting my ego overtake my desire to get to the best outcome, which is just like that's a silly trade-off, right? And an unnecessary one. The thing that changed there is me just saying, it's more important for us to get to the outcome. And I very selfishly just like to learn more things. And so by like deciding that I already knew everything, I was cutting myself off from like learning the things that other people were really good at. And it's so easy to just open the door instead and say like, hey, you seem to know something that I don't know yet. Like, why not tell me about it? I'm going to get better. We'll probably come to the right outcome. Maybe you'll have a better time. Like, why not?”

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  38. “Ah man, I love Boss. What a great guy, and so kind of him to say that. I mean, I will say that this did not come naturally to me. You know, I really enjoy being right. I love to be right. I think most of us love being right. And at least like in my childhood, part of my identity was built on being the person that was right and being the person who knew everything. And then it turns out that like in the working world, that did not serve me so great. It wasn't great to walk into things and be like, all y'all are wrong. I am the only answer. Everyone please listen to me and like stop talking. And what really happened was that someone pointed out to me that not only one of my old managers pointed out to me that not only was I spending a lot of energy trying to think through every possible thing by myself so I could be totally right, I was often not really coming to the right answer.”

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  39. “Spending time with them. And that's where I feel like I've always just been able to try more things and do better because that's a big un trust is a big unlock for me.”

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  40. “Actually, going to determine how good I am at the job. The thing that'll determine the thing that in my track record, the thing that has determined it is like when I walk through the doors, do I feel like I'm lucky to be there? So for me, it's like, it's actually a lot more emotional. Like I try to just put on the coat of the job. Like when I wake up in the morning, I'm like, what would it be like if I were doing this job? What would I think about on my commute? Who would I have lunch with? Do I like them? Like, what problems am I going to solve today? And that gives me like an emotional response, which is just much more telling than the spreadsheets of here's where I'm going to be in five years. And for me, the thing that has led me to the places where I do my best work is a feeling of being at home, which is all about trust and trust with the people around me. Like, can I walk through and feel like these people are going to have my back? They're going to let me take risks. I'm going to enjoy.”

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  41. “I mean, I think a lot of us are just like you have a spreadsheet in your head of the axes. And certainly you're choosing between jobs. It feels, for me, it feels like, oh man, the rest of my career hangs in the balance of making the exact right decision and getting the exact right job. And you work through all of this spreadsheet mass of like, if I took this job, here's what it would do for me. Here's like where I'd be in five years, et cetera. And, you know, I have that engine in my head also. But what I try to do is like, you know, work through the spreadsheets and then tear it up because none of that stuff like.”

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  42. “For a long time, I felt like I was held back because I don't have a plan. But I realized that probably the most important thing is to just acknowledge that is true for me, that I'm not going to be a person with a plan. And actually, the thing that has consistently served me is to do the thing that feels right, go to the place that feels like home, work with the people who feel like my friends, like just work where when I put on the code of the job, I feel like, oh, this is a place where I could really be lucky. I can be creative. I'm in the right spot, as opposed to feeling like, oh, there's an end state that I know of. And I'm just going to have to work my way to that end state. Whenever I get in that zone of like, there's only one outcome and I just have to get there. I like I'm not my best, not my best, you know? I'm not bringing the creativity and the luck and the excitement in the same way.”

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  43. “And so it just took me a while to realize that actually it's all fine, no one's got it fully figured out. You never know how someone else is living. Like most of us are winging it and learning as we're going and like learning through trial and error. And like, that's, it's all normal. It's all fine. And I can do it and you can do it never.”

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  44. “I mean, maybe I'll just say a couple more words on that. Actually, I'd feel like when I was kind of coming up, like when I looked at people who are successful, they seem to have everything figured out, especially the women. They were all super women. Were they respond to every email in 10 seconds, they didn't seem to sleep. They like always wore high heels. They were just like perfect. And I was just like, oh, I guess I'm never going to be successful. Like that is not me. I love to sleep. I like waste time doing absurd things all the time. And like I'll tell you how glamorous my lifestyle is. I'm currently working out of my bathroom. Like I'm talking to you from my bathroom, which is where I work from because I love my house. It's a great house wasn't meant for work from home three kids, two parents, remote work. And it was just a place with the most closing doors between me and my children when the pandemic started.”

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  45. “For me, the hill climb is all about the difference between the local optimum and a global optimum. You're standing on top of the hill, you're looking down, you can see rolling hills, the sheep, the grass, whatever. But then way off in the distance, you can see like a mountain. And the thing that gets me through the valley is remembering what the summit feels like.”

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  46. “We all agree that the feeling of something should be, I'm sitting in Dolores Park with my friends on a sunny Saturday, then people will just naturally build something that feels more consistent.”

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  47. “I really enjoy being right. And then it turns out in the working world, that did not serve me so great. I think the hard part is sublimating your ego a little bit and saying it's more important to get to the outcome than to be right.”

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