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Michelle Khare

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“So I am going to come back and ask you about just to plant the seed the mentors in the very early days when you didn't really have much, right? Like what that email looked like, we're going to come back to that. I'll give my example when I first got to Silicon Valley. I volunteered for organizations that had name cachet. So I volunteered for, for instance, Ty, the Indus Entrepreneur last time I'm sure people checked. I'm not Indian, but Ty super well known at the time, maybe still entrepreneurial organization, like the per capita density in the kind of Indian diaspora in Silicon Valley with talent has fucking bananas.”
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“In the first line, it's going to be credibility indicator. All right, a couple of points on this. So you've got like your credibility indicator in the subject line potentially also, which I will also do, be like for interview parentheses one billion plus downloads, right? In the case of the podcast, right? Something like that”
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“What? Yeah, you know, just another pro tip this is because we're in Austin and this is like kind of man bun baggy pants slash like Bitcoin ayahuasca CrossFit Central is like don't just walk up to someone you don't know and say after they offer a hand oh I'm a hugger and just go for the hug don't do that like just really don't do that right like assume you're in Japan and they're gonna strike you down with a sword if you do that like the person the person who wants the most distance wins that conversation it's kind of like skiing in the back country with avalanche risk or something whoever's the most concern gets to veto but let's come back to the cold email so we've got the subject line different subject lines for different purposes”
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“Immediate camaraderie is helpful. I will say that's a very risky gamut. Maybe it works one out of 10 times. In my case, I'm just like, this is a liability, right? Because here's how I think about it is I'm like, well, Even if it doesn't bother me, that shows a general lack of awareness. And if they're going to ask me to connect them with someone or they're going to work with anyone who I care about and they pull that. It's a reputational risk. And so most of the time, that's going to be an auto archive. It's going to be like, you know what? The people you're reaching out to, if they're really busy and if they're well known enough that you think to email them, have more opportunities than they can even look at. Your job number one is don't do anything stupid. Don't do anything that's going to disqualify your email.”
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“I've got so many guys, it's always guys who think that that way I could be anything, but think that like shoulder slapping.”
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“So I am consistently surprised, and maybe this just makes me a salty, crushity. Bastard, but when people are like, Hey, Tim, yo, bro, yo, Ferris, or whatever, I'm just like, did we go to Patsy?”
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“And I certainly will. And I would say nine times out of ten, that person's like, either I have no idea who that person is, or I met that person once and we shook hands at a party. I don't know them at all. And I'm like, you're gone. You just misrepresented implicitly or explicitly. But when I'm writing an email, right? I'll have that subject line. If there is a via, I'll include that name. And the subject line, I'll keep as short as possible. Then the always default to Mr. or Mrs. or Ms. something, like something that I really appreciate about you, because it doesn't cost anything, is you are very default polite. And even though it makes me feel like an old bastard, you said you were like, yes, sir. And you, sir, with me a couple times when we came in. And it's, no, no, but you're always better off being on the safe side.”
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“Yeah, exactly. Will that brings up another point, which is if you're going to mention mutual connections, and I'm shocked by how many people violate this, you better actually know, assume the person you're emailing is going to immediately text those people.”
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“But they haven't made the intro. I will say, for instance. Would be again, just use the Tom Cruise example, who I think would make an amazing interview. But for Tom Cruise via mutual connection, So I will mention the mutual connection first because subjects, lines often get truncated on mobile or elsewhere. So if they just see for Tom Cruise from Tim Farsey is going to be like, who the fuck is Tim Ferris archive? If it's four tom or for Tom Cruise via person who actually made the suggestion and then my name, you have a huge advantage because chances are it's going to get truncated.”
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“And I will just draw a few parallels. So, number one, you need credibility up front. And one way to think about this, and I always, if I'm thinking about reaching out to someone who is above my pay grade and trust me, I mean, there are plenty of people who are way above my pay grade. The first thing in this subject line, I'll give a tip that I sometimes use. So let's just say that somebody knows, you know, Mr. Beast or Tom Cruise or whoever it might be. Now, practically speaking, everything's going to have to get routed through someone else for Tom Cruise. And if you do get their personal information, they're going to be very annoyed. But where I'll start with the subject line is one of two places or both. So you mentioned like the credibility indicator in the subject. I'll use that. But if we actually have someone in common who actually recommended iConnect,”
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“Make it explicit. 100% agreed. So I want to Mention a couple of direct parallels between what you just mentioned is this formula, and if you're open to it, maybe we could share like a few examples or a template of”
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“I am shocked by how many emails I get that are actually somewhat interesting that get surfaced by my team because I have people who triage my email that do not have a phone number and I'm like, I don't have time to have a bunch of, my team does not have time to do a bunch of back and forth to figure out a time to talk, even though you didn't even offer a time to talk. And blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I just don't have time for it. Like, this seems interesting, but it's not definitively interesting. If you gave a cell phone, I would figure out a way to maybe call you. And in five minutes, I'd be like, I have three quick questions. Interesting, but this is it, five minutes. And in a friendly way, obviously. It's like include, if it's important to you, include your cell phone.”
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“A lot of people with high IQ at Google who may not have the social crisis, but I have to agree on Comic Sans. So let me say a few things about this email. I, in some ways, owe my entire career as it is to cold emails. And what you learn in crafting Emails is directly translatable to in person and talking to people in a way. It's the same thing. There are some differences, but I want to highlight a couple of things that you just said. Number one, including your cell phone.”
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“I saw this photograph. I have a lot of friends who work at Google and there was this big like printed out sign to employees talking about like snacks or things and Refrigerators, and it was in comic sands, and then someone else took a marker and wrote on it. They're like, This is Google. And it is a serious place of work. Please do not use Comics. I just thought it was pretty funny because there are.”
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“Amazing now, so that again this like surface area for luck, right? Like you have to have some pinballs in the pinball machine. The possibility of something like that happening. Is there anything else in your email or communication with the Hollywood guy that you think increased the likelihood of him saying yes”
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“He's just like, how did I get stuck in this department every email that comes over the transom about some kind of film television thing?”
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“It's harder for the coach to put themselves into your shoes because so much of what they do second nature and they're probably decades removed from the experience you're about to have.”
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“The early days, the first like three to six months after quitting your job. Or did you just do everything yourself? I don't know, right? So what did it look like in the early days? Because once you get some momentum, sure, you get some money coming in. Okay, you can start to add, you can start to upgrade, you can start to do various things. But in the beginning, you're very capital constrained.”
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“Courage, which I think is a practiced skill. Your subconscious has to believe that you can do something. You can't just read books and suddenly have confidence in all situations. And I mean, you're, I think, a walking example of how you can do that. So my question for you, Formula One team. All right, Formula One is expensive, right? It's like these cars in some cases are like, what, $250 million, right? When you start to add everything in. Yes, very high performance. But when you quit your job and you're like, I have three months, how did you assemble or enroll the help that you needed?”
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“Not to belabor this, but since the genesis of fear setting is Stoic philosophy and the Stoics, Seneca the Younger talks about practicing in this way. Very close friend of mine, Kevin Kelly, who was the founding editor of Wired Magazine and fascinating person on all levels, also has a big Amish beard and has spent time with the Amish to study how they accept or reject technology, et cetera, et cetera. Really interesting guy, but he also, I don't know if he does it anymore, he's got to be mid-70s now, but he used to routinely spend periods of time, I want to say every year, where he would just camp out in his living room in a sleeping bag and have like instant coffee and instant oatmeal and just do that for like a week. He's like, oh, yeah, great. Yeah, I don't really need that much And by doing that, it gives you”
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“Yeah, exactly. Key to success. 30% of Tim's nothing. Chapter one. Chapter one. Bump into people. Actually, it really could be. The other thing I wanted to mention is you talked about In a sense, and this is not The most elegant way to put it, but like practicing poverty. That was one of your fears, right? It was like running out of money. So you move into the apartment where you're sharing a studio with someone else or multiple people and you get rid of your memberships and so on. And you proved to yourself. Number one, you can certainly survive. Number two, probably it's not that bad. Like you can figure it out. And sure, maybe if you're depending on the roommate, I mean, you might want to get rid of said roommate. But it reminded me of...”
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“It is. It is. And yet, if you look at what the virtual guy did, because I was trying. Wanted to get involved in tech and then ultimately angel investing. Where was I? I was in the Bay Area for 17 years. If I had not done that, I think my success would have been had a 0% likelihood. I mean, literally 0% if I look at how a lot of the ultimately best advising or investing relationships came together, they almost all started with chance encounters at the equivalent of a kebab shop. I go to a barbecue at someone's house and like accidentally bump into someone and spill their drink and start a conversation and then boom, that turns into like one of the most ends up defining 30% of my net worth, right? I mean, and sure, there's luck involved, but you have to provide, and I'm borrowing this term from someone else, but surface area for luck.”
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“Well, this speaks also to putting yourself in the center of the action. And I've had very famous investor named Bill Gurley on the show before I sat where you're sitting right now, legendary investor. And he talks about this a lot, which is putting yourself where the action is, right? So if you want to have those types of connections, Less likely to happen in a small town in Montana than it is in Los Angeles. Similarly, depending on your industry, IRL still matters a lot. As much as we would like to think it doesn't, it's like if you want to be in certain games and tech. And you want to have access to the talent, et cetera, still to this day, in a lot of instances, you have to be in San Francisco or somewhere near San Francisco. That's just where you have to be”
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“Okay, I don't know if he's still in the game, but Damien Walters, he's a former high-level British gymnast who then entered the world of stunt work and just has the inmost insane yearly highlight videos that he put out for a while. This is an older vintage. He's been doing it a long time. But in any case, I thought he could be.”
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“Sort of self authored a path to doing that. Like, oh man, what an amazing thing. And I know there's a lot under the hood and behind the scenes that I'm sure is very difficult, which we'll talk about. But if you have not connected, and maybe you've graduated on from the stunt work and so on, but Damien Walters, have you seen Damien Walters? No.”
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“Better than everybody else, which is not to say automatically that I or you can do that with all of our team members, but he's at the very least incredibly good at each of the stations so that he can when need be improve systems, change things. He can also teach and coach. He can give feedback. And if he gives feedback, people take it seriously because they know he's done it himself and he knows what he's talking about. So there's a huge advantage to that. And it makes your mistakes later less expensive also. And it allows you to hire more effectively. Whether that hiring is a contract or full-time. Okay, so you, I just wrote this down, and I have to mention it because basically I'm living vicariously through you now. Oh my God, in a sense, because your channel's like, oh my God, like that's if I could have...”
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“Was basically one of two superheroes in a sense. I mean, they both have superpowers, right? You had Grant Ackettz, the chef Vunda Kint genius. And then you have Nick Kakonis, who I've become very close friends with, who is a former genius options trader at the Chicago who then decides to get in touch with Grant. He's magical emailing, which I want to talk to you about. Very good at cold emailing. And they got together and Nick is from a business, kind of challenging and redesigning of systems perspective, incredible. But the reason I bring it up is that Grant can work every station in the restaurant”
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“Because they know you have done the thing you are asking them to do, which you did kind of mention in passing, but it's really important. I think of, I have some PTSD memories of this book, but the four-hour chef, right? Which confusingly is a book about accelerated learning actually tried to do a lot with that book. But very proud of it. I think it worked. But the reason I bring it up is there's a chef whose profile in that name Grant Acketz, who”
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“In that situation. Yeah, exactly. What an amazing story. What fun. And it's so, it's a recipe. It's replicable. It's going to be different for every person, but it is actually... It's a formula that works like a lot of things. And I want to also mention a few things that come to mind just to draw some parallels. So you mentioned BuzzFeed where you learn to do all of these different jobs. And there's a benefit to that above and beyond the expertise of, say, spot checking your team's work or something like that. Your team will also respect you more.”
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“In that case, as you're thinking about what could I do. If this fails, right? If it doesn't work out, what could I do? You've got your LinkedIn and resume ready to go. And in my fear setting. And for a lot of people, it's like, well, I could get like a temp waitering job. I could bartend. I could sell a bunch of my furniture. I could sell my piece of shit used car and, you know, take public transport. I could whatever, right? Sleep on an air mattress in a friend's room. So in a sense, like you've proven to yourself. That the permanent irreversible risk is actually low, while at the same time propelling yourself towards this defining decision, which is like taking the leap.”
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“In LA. So you've got probably Cobra, right? You might have some residual healthcare after you quit. I'm not sure how it was set up benefit-wise, but like in my company, I knew I had at least a handful of months where I wasn't going to have to pay for my own health care.”
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“Simultaneously developing skills You're doing that and proving that you don't need the crutch or the training wheels of your company to enable you to do those things. So the moonlighting aspect, this is another thing that at least in my mind maybe conflicts with how some listeners might think about me, but there's a difference between, I'd be curious to hear you speak to this. There's a difference between putting your back against a wall, in other words, like highly pushing yourself to make a decision. And burning all the ships and burning all the bridges. And the way I would frame the difference is like a year to the day almost, right? You quit your job and you're setting up this groundwork and you have some videos ready to go. And where were you at the time? This was in.”
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“I love this This is, I feel like we were separated at birth. Few things I'll say number one to try to not that I have I'm not a paragon of self awareness but I will say that I for I have done a few things that have ended up with the accumulating injuries that maybe in retrospect shouldn't have done. But broadly speaking, I'm always trying to mitigate risk, which underscores this entire fear-setting exercise. Because it's not just about convincing yourself. It's also, in my mind, completely intertwined with what you did, which is preparing and training yourself and your circumstances. When I flashback to starting my first company, it's like, how did I start the first company? I started my first company during lunch hours, evenings, and weekends basically while still doing my other job and doing my other job well. But I wanted to have a head start so that I wasn't beginning from scratch after quitting a job. So I did that. By the way, your sign.”
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“Experience any ambitious or scary journey for themselves, often the same thing. It's not a straightforward line up into the right. It's a bonky path. After doing that, when did you take action towards realizing the dream? It could have been a very small thing, I don't know, but like what was the kind of defining first step that kind of set you on the actual path to realizing what you laid out?”
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“So, fear setting is a pretty straightforward thing. It's basically barred from the Stoics. I'm not the first person to look at this. I just tried to systematize it for myself. It was in the four hour work week. And it's like goal setting, but it's identifying your fears very specifically. And then making them as concrete as possible, then talking about what you might do to prevent them end or repair them if they inevitably happened. And the objective here is to, in a sense, demystify and take your fears from being this nebulous cloud of anxiety to something that you can put under a microscope. To test”
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“I'm sure we'll spend a second on cycling also. But the way that this interview ultimately happened was because of an X exchange. I put up a post about YouTube channels. Are there any YouTube channels out there that have some type of intersection with the four-hour work week or anything in it? And that's how we ultimately personally connected. How does fear setting fit into the story?”
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“Just a quick thanks to our sponsors, and we'll be right back to the show. Folks' tax season is upon us, fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun it always has a way of forcing us to look at our finances whether we want to or not and if you're dreading that moment it's a lot to pull together there are ways to make your finances easier and far less stressful today's sponsor monarch is the all-in-one personal finance tool it's used by a bunch of my friends it's used by my employees designed to help make your life easier it brings your entire financial life together in one dashboard on your phone or laptop one person on my team has tried four other budgeting apps said linking everything together on monarch was by far the easiest another said to be honest and i'm quoting directly here to be honest the widgets are the most helpful thing for me because i can see shopping food and big expenses all on my screen without having to open the app and then she gives the reason i often forget about when things like car payments are happening and now i know not to go overboard at target or something like that right so it makes it visible easy to grade”
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“At a startup first, then start your own startup. But in the world of visual storytelling, would you suggest people get a job kind of working at a place like a BuzzFeed or something like that before making the leap into YouTube now? Or is there a better way to learn the skills necessary to do in-depth long-form stuff?”
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“So that you are learning, learn, make all your dumb mistakes or make your first massive round of dumb mistakes on someone else's dime. If you immediately start your own company, you're also not necessarily going to get the breadth of experience in a more mature, and by mature, that could be 10 or 20 or 30 employees. It doesn't have to be a gigantic company, but get that experience first and then increase the odds of your own success at that point by going and starting your own gig. And I'm curious if you think that still applies, for instance, in the world of, and I know this is painting with a broad brush, but YouTube, if somebody came to you and they said, I want to get really good at the world has changed so quickly in terms of video and entertainment and visual storytelling. With a startup, I would still tell someone, hey, if you can, I know we're all painting this dystopian picture of Mad Max in 10 years. Let's just, for the time being, for planning purposes, assume that's not going to be the case.”
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“So, I want to spend a second on this simply to say, because I get. Asked about starting companies all the time in someone's like, I'm graduating and I'm going to start my company. And I think they're sometimes surprised. And a lot of professors disagree with me on this, which is fine because I think that makes for interesting conversations. But my default recommendation is do not start a company right after school. Go get An MBA or a master's degree in X, where you get to do every job. Someone else is paying you for it.”
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“This is going to be a leading question, but I'm going to try it anyway. Do you think it's fair to say that if you had not had the BuzzFeed job and you had gone straight from not getting the gig at Google to YouTube, that the outcome would have been very different?”
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“Is at least one way that I think about it. And you've talked about assembling this Formula One team. But let's rewind, right? Because I'm sure some people are like, well, if I don't have any money and I'm just getting started, how do you afford to hire the Formula One team? That sounds expensive. So let's go back a little bit before you became active on YouTube. What were you doing?”
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“Broadly speaking, it's like with what you're doing, right? You're creating a moat that is very defensible in a lot of ways. It applies to startups where it's like, okay, sure, yeah, you can vibe code and create something in 20 minutes. And that's interesting and you should experiment with that. And the barrier to entry has been lower dramatically on the production of, say, an app, but the barrier to attention has never been higher. Therefore, like there is actually something to be said for the hard startup being the easier startup where if you're solving a hard problem that requires a really good team and like hardware and this then the other thing most people are never going to attempt it therefore you actually have a margin of safety in some respect if you can execute so i i just wanted to mention that because i i see this all over the place where if you spend the time to work on something hard up front it buys you a lot of safety”
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“Incredible physical specimens. They take no prescription medications. And the reason I'm bringing them up is that Jersey has this expression, which is hard choices, easy life, easy choices, hard life. So it applies in physical training and health. It applies in”
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“Polish ⁇ migr ⁇ s immigrated to the US with like 10 or 100 bucks in their pocket. They were political refugees, landed in California. And still to this day, they both have multiple world records in Olympic weightlifting. And I would say they're both around mid 60s. And Jersey can get on an Indo board like a balance board with a fully loaded barbell and do a perfect Olympic snatch like Asta Heels and then drop the weight and repeat while balancing on a board. He's Got to be at least 65 now. His wife, Aniella, who also, as I mentioned, has a bunch of world records. Her daughter's, I guess, ball got caught in a tree a few years ago, and she just like ran up the tree and got it and came down. I mean, they are.”
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“Right, because you're going to be the comp. They're going to say, oh, it's like challenge accepted but dot dot dot. That is going to be very difficult for other people to overcome. And I want to explore this a little bit more because it's, I think, so critical. And you see it in a lot of different places. Sometimes the hard thing is the easier thing long term, meaning if you solve a very hard problem up front, it makes your life a little easier or a lot easier long term. And this applies everywhere, right? There's a amazing, amazing guy. You should meet him at some point. Okay. Jersey Gregoric and his wife Anela Gregoric.”
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“But if you want to look at some other examples where I probably wouldn't pursue it, but they're doing an excellent job acquired, for instance, founders, David Senra, highly focused Long form, very hard to replicate because there's so much goddamn work, right? Yes. Which is true with yours also. It's like, oh, you want to spend six months making a video? Let's see. It's a lot easier.”
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