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  1. “I think we lost pretty much everyone. At ReplyMe at Kevin Rose on Twitter with Tim Tim Goodgood as the hashtag, if you even listen to it this far. All right. I bet you there'll be like four people.”

    2014-04-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Episode 1: Kevin Rose · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  2. “The really minimalist, like crazy, like getting the actual feel of the culture. You're not the average like, I'm just going to go to like a third world country and stay in the four seasons. You know, so I think that bringing that flavor to the show and bringing some of those personalities that are outside of what we get here in the States, I think would be pretty awesome.”

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  3. “I think that the thing that would be fun is if you just, I mean, you got to get outside of tech. I mean, obviously there's a lot of tech people, but in the Bay Area. But I think that the thing that I would love to hear about is, because you travel the world so much, you're always all over the place in weird, crazy countries, you need to bring some of that culture to the show. And I think even if you could something where you splice together a bunch of different interviews to fill out like a half hour, 40 minutes, like if you were like, if you were in freaking the Philippines and you are in Thailand anymore.”

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  4. “role can do the work of 10 people in the wrong role. And so they've got this thing where, you know, if you can, if they can fit that person for that right role, you'll get 10x of performance. And I totally believe that's true. I think that's... So that, you know, there's a reason why Instagram grew to, you know, I don't know when they sold us 50 plus million people or something like that using their product with 10 people. It's that, yeah, Kevin Sistram. Yeah. Kevin Smith. But, you know, he was good like that.”

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  5. “As you drink a little bit less. That's a good question, actually. I haven't thought about it. I mean, I think a lot of the things that we talked about today about surrounding yourself with mentors and understanding to confront the things that you don't understand rather than hide from them. I think that I would say that if it's from a straight business point of view, I would say that you can do more with less. I think that there's this temptation when you start seeing some success to throw bodies and servers and more people at the problem when in reality it's like just making sure that you have the right people in the right roles. I think they have this rule at Google. It's called, I'm going to screw this up, but you can get the gist that it's like the 10x rule. And like the right person on the right.”

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  6. “Something where you're just like, oh, let's be for coffee. And it's like somebody that's just like a friend, but you pay them”

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  7. “Right. Crazy. I think we need to treat our brains like that, though. You need to treat it like another muscle that you would work out. And you need to figure out that that's actually a good positive thing. I wish there was a more casual therapist”

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  8. “Absolutely. Why was it? You just felt like afterwards you're like, oh God, I can't because there's a stigma attached to that.”

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  9. “Yeah, but like also, you know, it's like No, I know that. I know that. But I'm saying understanding the value in being able to freely vent to a significant other or to talk to someone or have like a good bro or even like seek counseling or whatever it may be. Like having an outlet to be able to go out there and Get gut checks on different things. I think it's a really healthy thing. And so, like, you know, for me, like, I've had some good friends in the Bay Area that like, you know, like you, for example, we've talked about a bunch of deep stuff before. I've done that with Prager and some other friends and things like that. And I think that like. Just having those, I think, is a really healthy thing. And so those act as mentors in a way. You know what I mean? Like, I think that your close friends like that can act as mentors.”

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  10. “I mean, it's one of those things where I think that you're like this too, dude, having known you long enough now that you are a kind of a closed off person, you know, and so am I, and that like, you know, you hide some emotional stuff and you keep it.”

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  11. “Yeah, I mean, the meditation, the gardening, You know the other thing I will say is it's really good to have an outlet to just vent. And that can be with your spouse. That can be with, you know, it's funny. It's like. It's trying to, you know, I mean, this is, we're getting really deep here. You want to keep going? No.”

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  12. “That you can't be expected to know every little facet of every business, especially because there's so many different, like you don't go and get a degree and, you know, business and finance and marketing and all these different areas, you get one degree, if that. Yeah, plus plus.”

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  13. “Little weird things that attorneys like to throw on these little curveballs and weird things into financing documents that as a VC you have to go through and pour through and like look at you know certain terms and understanding how they might impact the company and like even today there was a term that I had never seen in a document. I thought it meant one thing and it actually meant something else and our attorney like IM'd me and she's like do you actually realize that this means this and not this? And I was like, oh shit, I didn't know that. Thank you. Like that was awesome. I had no idea it really would impact us if we ever decided to do X, Y, and Z. And so, you know, just like sitting down and saying, like, can you explain these things? And it just takes time, you know. And it's like, it's something that.”

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  14. “I think that for me currently it, you know, I am decent at reading legal documents, but I'm by no means a pro. And so like there's a lot of”

    2014-04-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Episode 1: Kevin Rose · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  15. “Be good at one thing. You have to understand the whole gamut, the A to Z, and at least have enough knowledge to be able to make an educated decision around certain things. And I think that I was very immature and I hid from the things that I didn't understand. And so even today, there's a lot of things I still don't understand when it comes to finance.”

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  16. “And I'm going to just focus on what I know best. In retrospect, I would probably go in and say, well, I know for a fact, I would be honest with myself about what I don't know and go and absolutely try and pair up with mentors that can help me out. I think if anything that I've learned in the last ten years of doing this is that there is no shame in admitting that you don't understand something because you can either fuck it up and that's when you act like you understand something and you actually don't, or you can admit it one time, learn it, and then move on and become a better person and just more well-rounded and actually, you know, get serious about building a business. If you ever going to be a founder and you're going to run that business, you have to understand that you can't just”

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  17. “Um... You know, I think that for me, it's finding someone that fills in the gaps. I think that there is, you know, when you want to run a business or you want to start something new, the best thing that you can do and the thing that I kind of like was I would say that one of the big learnings that I had when I was a lot younger in my early 20s and started dig was that I put my head down, I put my headphones on, and I said, I'm going to focus on product because it was the thing that I was comfortable with and it was the thing that I understood and I knew how to do well. I kind of, you know, closed my eyes to every other aspect of the business, whether it was financials, whether it was running the business, whether it was hiring, firing people, whether it was, you know, scaling. Like there was a bunch of pieces that I just was like, I don't understand those. I'm going to close my eyes and pretend they don't exist. I'm going to hire other people to run them.”

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  18. “She's like, cold's nice. And I'm like, yeah, cold's kind of nice. And I ended up getting the gold one. Who wants a gold scooter? It's the worst. That's very good.”

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  19. “I got a stupid. I love that you. No, I'm really embarrassed because I think on color, I got a freaking gold vespa. It's so ugly, dude.”

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  20. “I think There's something to be said about choosing your own path, but I don't think that once you've chosen that path, I agree that there's no reason why you can't have a hard ass under that particular vertical of whatever you've chosen, right? Like if you say, okay, I want to get into computer science, like you can have a badass, like hard ass in computer science that drives you to be the best, right? Like, I feel the same way. have a trainer at the gym and why because i'll push myself to freaking six if i'm left to my own devices if i go in with the trainer i'm going 11 and walking out of there sore as hell and can barely limp back to my vehicle you know and so like i i agree”

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  21. “I mean, that's the way things are today, right? Like, people are saying, this is the class you have to take, this is the thing that you have to.”

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  22. “I think everyone's different. I think that certainly that approach is one that is probably a little bit more traditional.”

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  23. “So here's one thing I just want to throw out there real quick. There's a lot of people talking about this unschooled movement where it's like open source school, like where the kids can pick the different classes in their own kind of at their own leisure. Have you considered doing you could put out episodes that are like some courseware and the class online that would as long as you adhere to like some of the unschooled stuff, like you could basically create your own class for the same.”

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  24. “I really miss one of the things that my dad did when he was alive is that when I was a little kid, he was a mentor to a lot of other kids in our troop. And I think that it was really important and he enjoyed it because you have to understand that the Boy Scouts, even though there is one of the things that nobody ever really talks about is that, at least in Las Vegas, was that there was a lot of kids that were dropped off by their moms who didn't have father figures. And they were like, this is the only way they're going to get like a father figure in their life. And there were a lot of boys there that just never knew their dads. And like my dad was like a second dad. And like at my dad's funeral, there was like, you know, a couple people, well, one in particular that was a good longtime friend of my dad's that now is in his, you know, late 30s that was like, you know, a scout that my dad kind of mentored because, you know, he considered him like a second father.”

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  25. “There's something about actually serving people. I think that's a cool thing to do. I wouldn't mind actually I'd like to talk to you about this. I wouldn't mind like donating some of my time. I actually want to join the Boy Scouts again and help out because I was an Eagle Scout and I went and I was in Scouts all growing up and I feel that like”

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  26. “Imagine that you're dealing with like 16 to 18 year old kids as a majority of your workforce. These are like the most unruly, crazy spit in your hamburger type of like, like, how do you manage that? That's the kind of be the hardest segment of people to manage. Like, I know when I was 16 to 18, like I was doing all kinds of crazy stupid stuff. And so I would imagine that they have systems in place. No, I know. You wouldn't. You still wouldn't today. I would imagine that when you look at what they have in place, everything from the ways that they monitor their employees to the system they have set up to like hear the three things you have to do to make this burger hear the seven things you have to do to make this burger like i just want to understand that process so i can figure out how someone would successfully franchise and scale a business like that i'm just curious and i also think it would be you know”

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  27. “Also, I would really like to just analyze, I want to understand businesses that are fine-tuned and all about like one of the things I respect about these businesses. I don't necessarily decent that I hear their ingredients are pretty good, but like McDonald's, a place that I would never ever”

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  28. “You talk about reality, Kat. I have this really weird thing where I want to go and work in fast food again. We talked about this reality kit. Until someone comes up and is like, Kevin, and then I'm going to run out.”

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  29. “He looks like Samson. We got lucky to go to his house up in Canada and freaking the dude is like the master. He had an amazing garden. So anyway, yeah, I would like to learn more about that. I mean, I think that right now it's a very, I have someone help out that comes by and basically helps with the garden. And I just, I understand the basics, but I need to understand like I want to get to the level of understanding the soil composition and a bunch of other things. And I just don't have the time to do it. I wish I did. So, I think there's a bunch of little hobbies. I think that you're getting that with the meditation and with the garden, like there's probably, you know, a handful of things. I'd like to work in fast food again.”

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  30. “So we were lucky enough to go up to Dr. Ander Weil. You probably know him as the dude with the big white beard on all the whole food stores shelves.”

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  31. “I think that if anything, I complain that I don't have time to focus on some of the things I'd really like to get behind. I want to learn how to garden properly. I know this sounds lame, but like I do.”

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  32. “The hardware, but the hardware is finally up to speed now to where you're going to see in the next few years, like a lot of this stuff that we thought was impossible actually making into devices that we wear.”

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  33. “That's fucking But anyway, what I'm getting at is obviously. I feel like, especially in this sector, like there's a lot of talk and like the origins of something, which obviously you were a big part of, and then there's that inflection point where the hardware catches up with the general discussion. And then the hardware enables.”

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  34. “And you think about we still don't have that data available to us, but like there's a lot of talk in, at least in some of the startups that I've seen at external ways of gathering, very similar data. Like they're doing a bunch of new ways that get it heart rate, get it. What was the perspiration that you have coming off of you? A bunch of different ways.”

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  35. “Yeah. And I'm like, what the guy doing? Like, that was like, but talk about quantified self-stuff. I mean, this was years ago.”

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  36. “So we're sitting there in the movie theater, and we sit down, and like literally you didn't even think to say a thing to me until we sat down. Like we were like hanging out before then or something.”

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  37. “This is years ago Oh man, that was such a great movie. I love that movie. It was a good movie. So we're watching In Glorious Bastards and Tim's doing research for his book.”

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  38. “And it's early days, man. Like, if you think about all the stuff that you've looked at, as far as reading real time, I mean, dude, when I first, it's funny, I'll tell a great story, a Tim Ferris story. I think this is in your book too. When we were hanging out and we're watching a movie, do you remember what movie that was?”

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  39. “I mean, honestly, the quantified sell stuff, like just now in the last Android release, they're now automatically building in at the API level. They can tell whether you're walking, running in a car. Apple just announced that in their latest chip like three days ago, same thing. The APIs and the hooks for all this stuff are there. It's up to you what you want to build on top of it. You could do so many different things on top of that.”

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  40. “Did you see what the iPhone announcement a couple days ago? No, not bad. The new chip. What is it called? The M7 chip. So they're building in to a chip. They're offloading all the pedometer stuff. They can tell when you're in a car when you're walking, when you're running, all that stuff is going to be built on chips super low power, always on. So it's going to power like a whole nother suite of quantified self stuff. But like to your point,”

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  41. “Those in my lifetime and be able to actually launch some stuff that people are like, wow, it doesn't have to be big. It can be super small. I want people to think like, wow, that's something I've never seen before. I like that feeling.”

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  42. “You know, Facebook at the time was like smaller than Dig and was like shooting the shit with me about like what he wanted to build at Facebook and like, you know, thought we were the shit. And I was like, damn, that was, you know, now that I look back on that at the time, I was like, who is this kid? Now I look back on that and I'm like, dude, that's so cool. Like that was like a moment where we had created something that he was caught up in and thought it was really cool and baked some of those ideas into some of the stuff that he built and went on to obviously launch to an audience that's 100x what we ever were. But like dude, just being a part of that, like that whole movement was something that I will forever cherish, you know. And it's like those, so your question is like, what am I really good at? It's like I enjoyed those moments. And I think that like if anything I can bring to my, like the people that have followed my work and that continue to follow the stuff that I do, I hope to have a few more.”

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  43. “We built a lot of stuff very early days at Dig that went on to be used in many other products, including everything from, you know, stupid things like Facebook using a like button. When we created social voting way back in the day and had it spread to profiles and a lot of the kind of nuts and bolts of how that stuff worked, like a lot of that eventually, you know, some of the comment stuff that we did with the voting and like a lot of like really crazy stuff we did on like showing real time data around votes and like all this stuff eventually made it into much bigger products than what we had created. But dude, to know that you were there for a minute and played a little role in that, you know, that was really cool. Like I can remember when Zuckerberg came down to my office at Dig, sat on my floor with his flip-flops on”

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  44. “You know, maybe 10 or 15 moments throughout Dig's history where we were the first ones to do some of these things. And like that is the coolest feeling, man. When you create something that like millions of people end up using and you're just like, dude, I made that. Like it's like you feel so emotionally tied to it. And then you also, you know, it's funny. It's because”

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  45. “Well, I'm just saying that's another thing because that's awesome too. But I'm saying. Career wise has to be those moments where you have those original ideas, you know, they come to you that you're just like, this has never been done before. And you prototype it and you build it and you look at it and you're just like, wow, like, I don't know if this is ever going to be anything big, but I'm the first person that thought of this. Like, that is a really cool idea. And like we had”

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  46. “I would say Every couple years I will come up with something ideal wise that I have never seen done before. And so the thing that I enjoy more than anything else out of anything I've ever done in life is Outside of the emotional side of finding your wife and dating and things like that, has to be.”

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  47. “Blue in the face Yeah, it was so. I just realized that at that point, you just got to surrender and not fight and just be like, listen. And it actually helps out a ton because people are like, oh, he's just human. He's like,”

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  48. “28 days. Yeah, it was, and because of a lot of that, the press used to always love to sit down with us and be like, what do you think about your audience and the fact that they make these types of comments about certain users? Or there's a post about certain ladies in bikinis and they hit the front page and it got all these clicks and all these men are saying these really crude things. Like, how does that make you feel? And I felt like I'm always being hit with all of these kind of like, like, you suck. Tell us why you don't suck questions, you know?”

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  49. “So, I don't have to be ridiculed in some way. I think that a dig especially, we were under a lot of scrutiny all the time because we had such a very vocal audience that was taking down sites and servers and because we had so much traffic down my mind.”

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  50. “Yeah, maybe I think I never thought about this before. It's funny that you bring it up. But I feel like that's probably the reason why, because I want to say everything there is to be said that's negative so that we can get that out of the way.”

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