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Steve Young

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“Again, I wish I was Bob Dylan and had the smarts to go from Minneapolis to the action in Silicon Valley, but I actually Luckily,”
2026-01-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #847: Steve Young, from Super Bowl MVP to Managing Billions – Hall of Fame 49ers Quarterback on High Performance, Reinvention, Faith, and How to Blend Dreams and Plans · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And they can drop ship it that day and someone can pick it up. They could, you know, it's like it becomes your distribution point. And I'm like, oh, so we went and did that. And my longtime partner, 30 years together, left his banking job at Morgan Stanley to be the CEO of this business called Found.com.”
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“So that made it useful. And so we had that enablement. My buddy was doing it. He was like, can you help me? I'm like, so I take it to the board meeting. I'm like, hey, this, what do you think about this? And they're like, that works. You need to start a business that retailers are panicked right now because they're brick and mortar stores are going to be usurped by Amazon. In the late 90s, like it's 10 years before the time, but people are thinking about it. Take this enablement to them. They can query their inventory real time.”
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“I mean, It's insane. Yeah. How does this happen? And so Had a guy that I'm glad this is long form, I had a friend in college who was messing around with the URLs before the internet was shut down by the government. You could go in and he had an algorithm where he'd put a geographic boundary around an internet search. And if you're old enough to know in the 90s, the internet was a mess. If you put in Palo Alto hammer. You'd get like a USSR sickle. Like, you'd get like nothing made sense. But with this enablement, you could put in Palo Alto hammer and get the local ACE hardware store.”
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“Investing in the late 90s and really his whole life. He is the icon. So there's two of them, and I'm sitting in the board.”
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“Was the backbone of that legal background? And then Warren Hellman of Hellman and Freeman, like Warren Hellman's, like icon of...”
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“Was a meal replacement for marathoners, right? I remember back then. But for a single guy, that was meal replacement, not for a marathon for day to day. And so it kind of got famous around the Bay Area that I was, you know, he asked me to be on the board. And I was like, wow, I never done that before. I'll try that. First board meeting, Larry Sansini, one of the...”
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“He was one that said, Look, we didn't make a trade. Wasn't a transaction, it was more like hey, we'd love a relationship come in the locker room, be a part of our life, and let us be a part of your life, essentially. And he was somebody that I think really appreciated the complexity of what we were doing and the high function that we were doing. And then we obviously appreciated the high function and complexity of what he was doing. And so we shared in that. And I think that that was started a process. I was asked by Brian Maxwell, who's now passed away, but he started power bar.”
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“From the skies on Sand Hill Road for venture investing. So we started to get everything they did. We give them $50,000 of what they were doing.”
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“Explosion of Silicon Valley and technology. We're sitting in the locker room and there's five or six of us at lunch group that we would figure out, okay, look, how do we get in on all this venture investing and all this stuff that's going on, these businesses? Guys, we're leaving Stanford Business School literally in the middle of class would get a text or something and they would take the CEO job of a new startup and walk out. You know what I mean? And so how do we get in the middle of it? So we started trading access to the locker room.”
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“How does that even deteriorate? No, okay. So you got to remember the 49ers 1988 were given land in Santa Clara by the city of Santa Clara because there was nothing going on down there to build a training facility and try to attract more business. And that's funny now because Silicon Valley, you know, Santa Clara's middle. It is the epicenter of Silicon Valley. And so that's where I worked all the years. And so as we worked and watched.”
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“Miss Jones, can you please brief us on blah, blah, blah, the whole day was Mr Young. Could you please brief us? And so I'm just scrambling trying. But I think I loved that in a weird way. But I look back, it's like, what are you doing, man? What are you doing? But my dad was right. I'm now 25 years in private equity. And the only way I was able to cut the line being late to the party was because I had an advanced degree. That's how I did it. And so he was right.”
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“Cheated and they worked it out where I could audit the second semester one winter if I passed the classes cold then that would qualify me to come back and take the second semester blah blah blah blah so over seven years six for credit semesters I went back and what was funny now but wasn't funny at the time is we went to three super bowls in that time and the Super Bowl is in February you know end of January February school starts right after the new year So I'm showing up a month late and no one lost school cares. You still got to do the work. So I remember going to parade down Market Street in San Francisco and jumping on a plane, the Delta plane back to Salt Lake City at evening. And then the next morning in class and every class, the five first, you know, whatever class I usually five or six classes, every class is Socratic method. They walk in and they say,”
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“And then he would always say, Well, the average career is three years, and then I played for six years. And he's like, well, what are you going to do the rest of your, you know, you're going to retire at 35? And then what another half of your life, what are you going to do? So he just kept kind of putting my head. Yeah, well, it wasn't. I didn't bother me because I knew it was pretty true what he was saying. Like, what are you going to do with the rest of your life? And so I don't know how it got in my head. I look back on that as like, Tim, that's just stupid to try to go to law school while you play. That's just dumb. But I figured it out with the ABA, with the law school because the first semester in law school is in the fall nationwide. The first year curriculum is sequential. You can't.”
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“I think there's an 80% chance that you can do that. So that'll be the plan. That's a plan. And now we have a dream and a plan. He was always about that. Even he turned 90 in February and I recently asked him like, well, what's the dream, Dad? Because he always. And you're like 11 He has it in his mind. Like, that's the dream. So then I had a dream and a plan. So then I go to college and I end up going pro and the dream comes true, right? I'm like, dad, so much for 1%, bro. It's 100% now, you know.”
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“Like you, Dad, and I'll be a lawyer. Okay, so dad was a lawyer. My dad was a lawyer. You know, he described law and I was like, I think I could do that. So then I would tell him that he goes, you know?”
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“My dad, when I was growing up, because I had a picture of Roger Stahback, it was a famous quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys on my wall. He'd tell me, what do you want to be when you grow up? And I'd be like, I want to be a quarterback. Like Roger Stawback. Look at my, you know, and he'd go, what? That's a great dream, son. That's a great dream. And dreams are less than 1% chance. But dreams are important. Like have a dream. Like, I love it. Have it, but that's very unlikely. I need you to make a plan that's 80% chance. And so I would tell them, 80% chance I'll fake it and tell you that I'll go to college and then I'll go to law school.”
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“Did it come because you worried about it? Probably that's the wrong dynamic, but it takes again this vulnerability and authenticity to kind of say, over my life, I've now realized watching good things happen. And like, I didn't even worry about it. Something good happened and I didn't have to author it. And so it's like life is so crazy amazing, you know, in that way where the onion unfolded, like unraveling, like you just learning is so powerful to your life. And again, you can't get there unless you're willing to say, it's okay. It could sting. It could hurt. It could hurt for a while, but at least it's what is. Real, you know? Yeah. Yeah.”
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“You don't have any fun. Oh, now I get it. So that way it was useful in that way. I feel like, again, what are we here to do? Learn and grow. Like, that's okay. Let's grow through it, right? And I still, to this day, find myself the anxious parts have all kind of abated, but the pattern as a kid, I'm realizing now how you achieve, how you accomplish, what's the root of how you try to do it. And I was doing it in a fear-based way. In other words, if I worry about something that's important to me enough, I can make it happen. It's magical thinking in a way, right? Like if I worry and work and Fred and something good will happen, like in my life. And if you think about all the good in your life,”
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“Tomorrow, and I was like, Are you kidding me? I was like, it makes perfect sense would be surprised. Yeah. That's exactly how it felt. It was like, I got a job to do. I'm about it. I didn't realize how victimized I had become and how inauthentic I'd become and how all that part of it. But at least it all kind of like, like you said, my friends like, oh yeah, I can see that my parents, like my dad's like, I keep telling you just go have fun.”
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“So now I paid forward, you know what I mean? So, in its own way, that was the knowledge was the key. And then because I was so functioning through it, like it was helpful. It didn't make playing in front of 80,000 people and trying to be a great player. It didn't make it simple. But I think it was a piece to the... Puzzle for me to recognize that what I experienced as a kid, then you could kind of put into context. And knowledge is power, right?”
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“Go back to super cool because I didn't think about it as a stigma. Like I thought about it as like, oh, that makes sense. And then, as I told my parents and told, then we found out that in my mom's side of the family, this is a thing. And explained all kinds of craziness that was going on that now go, oh.”
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“My life was so full and amazing that I just kind of made our way. And so this was a point where now book ended with Stephen Covey maybe three weeks later. These are pretty vital big changes that happen that I think allowed me the place to kind of find. Peace about it all”
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“And he's like, respond, like, oh, I blew it. And I'm like, Reggie. Don't worry about it, bro. But he said, We're gonna get the bottom of it, and it wasn't maybe two days later, he sent me up to a child psychologist, psychiatrist, I'm not sure, and they gave me a test of 10 questions that would describe things that happened in your life, and that would be if you answer yes to eight of them, then kind of undiagnosed childhood separation anxiety as an adult. And so I was nine of them, right? Like, so, and he said, most people, Steve, who have this going on in their life, they're like self-medicating, right? They're in the basement. They're like, you know, but you're the MVP of the NFL. So I think we're just going to let you keep rolling. You know what I mean? And find your way through it. And I did find solace in the knowledge because until that point, I had subconsciously always known that I didn't like being in other people's houses when I was a kid or, you know, in other places.”
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“I didn't know what was going to happen. I was like explaining something that was told vulnerability, total like weakness it felt like, right?”
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“What he said Is what he, I mean, as he answered with a straight, like, he hadn't changed his face at all. I had dealt with and I, watching you instinctively felt that there was something going on. And I feel like I've Malpractice that this is what's had to come to it. Like he felt this incredible pain as the team physician that would have qualified maybe watch for this kind of stuff. And I'm like, like I was relieved.”
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“And as I'm explaining it, I see a big ball of a tear, like a big ball, come out of his eye. and then drop another one. And he hasn't changed his face. He hasn't changed anything. And I'm like, Reggie, are you crying? And he's trying not to break. He's like, I dealt with so much clinical anxiety I could hardly get through medical school.”
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“Just the way of my brain was working. So we won. I played pretty well. Like, I don't suggest, by the way, that that's how you prepare. But after the game, I'm sitting in the training room. Ice pack, and I see Reggie. You know, he's been around, he's been around all the Super Bowls. He was somebody that I promised my friends that I would do this, but I didn't want to. And we won. So like, we're good for a little while, right? But I did. I pulled him aside and I remember back in the corner, the old candlestick park, it was like stuff was dripping down. It's a dank, it's old school, right? And we're in the back corner and I get kind of move away from everybody and I'm kind of almost nose to nose. And I'm like, Reggie, I'm going through this thing. I don't know what's wrong. And I kind of explained it all.”
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“It's kind of a bookend, actually, type bookends between the Steve and Covey story and the Jim Clint story. Because just before that, and maybe that's what leads to the vulnerability, in the depth of what I just described and where I was in a hole and victimized, and there was a game that I just starting like Thursday night. The good news about all of that anxiousness around playing, I always slept. So it was like you could deal with it. And all of a sudden I wasn't. And so it was a game where people that I was near were like, you're a mess. You got to talk to them. Like, you gotta, you can't play. And I'm like, oh no, that's not an option. Like we're playing. And I remember telling them as I left for the game in such a state, I just probably never been quite like that. So I promised him, I said, look, if we win, I'll talk to the team doctor, just tell them, like, I'm not, something's going on, you know. But if we lose, I can't. There's no place to be able to, like, you can't.”
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“A flip side. And so I would say to my dad, well, the way you're looking at it, I can see why you'd say that, but the way I'm looking at it is like, I think it was, I had to have it.”
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“I would call clinical part of my life. Another little internal battle. Because now I like, I see the world and I'm like, oh, I can't wait to discover it. At some point it just flipped. The thing that was so constrictive and difficult and threatening. My parents left for a couple days when I was really little at my aunt's house. And I can still smell it. I can still feel it. I can still like the terror of them walking out. And I just like I look back and like that's an insane react. I can still hear my brothers and sisters outside laughing and with all the my cousins, but that was me, part of the authenticity has come to a place where we can look at in the eye too, you know? I think that explains my dad's comment. That part of me, but what he doesn't realize is that part of me drove.”
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“And I remember when I came back for Christmas, I finally got to come home. And I remember walking through the door and going, oh, wow. Kind of want to go back to school. And I realized that was a huge shift for me. You know, you live in your own private Idaho, like all the things that you're feeling, all the things you don't really share, you don't really, you know, it's like some of it you're afraid to even share. And it's like, all of a sudden I realized it's going to be all right because now And that was a shift that I needed. What my dad's describing is generally when I had to go play, there was a pattern of focus that was like, you know, he would call hyper focus and not fun. And so he's like, he's built for something else. I think that's what he's referring to. But I think it comes from the roots of that.”
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“Not so much. But during the daytime, I was killing it only for context, like all stayed in three sports, captain, straight A's, like not because I was tiger parents or tiger person. Like, I just, the day was awesome. I can't wait. It's going to be great. And at night, it's like, I'm home. And I didn't realize how much I had of this is when I went to college and had to go through a process of geography change that was like existential. It's hard to explain to people because they're like, going to college is awesome, man. What the, what's your problem? And why you didn't unpack your bags the whole semester? And you kept telling you're just miserable? Like, how's that possible? Well, it's how my brain worked function. I can't really say much about it. That's about it.”
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“He's referring to it. So when I was a kid growing up, first grade, second grade, third grade, I was a kid that when the first day of school, I would turn to my mom or dad and say, look, I'm not going. And they're like, why? It's super fun. And I'm like, my brain was processing it in fear and a new place, new people. And that seemed super scary. And that's, I think clinically would be called... Separation anxiety. And I think people listening, I'm sure they know somebody probably that had that as a kid. And so that didn't really show up in my life because I realized very young that I was not going to be like going on vacation with my friends and I was going to be home.”
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“Going to try not to get booed tomorrow, but it might be, and like this, but as long in your brain is saying the whole point. To learn and grow, then Stephen Covey be about it. And I think that really freed me up”
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“And then also that the grace in it, right? Where what's the point? Is the point to be regarded by people? Why it resonates with me? Because my own theology was like, we're here to learn and grow. Let's do it. And part of learning and growing is I suck right now, but I'm not going to suck tomorrow. And once you can start to get into that mode of like, that's what I'm about. That's what happens. There's that clarity that comes. Because now everything gets fed through that truth. And now it comes in more authentically like it doesn't hit the same way. And you can go in front of 80,000 people and find a piece about it. 80,000 people could boo you mercilessly. It is hard to what I'm talking about, but you can be authentically say, look, I'd boo me too. In fact, I might just boo with you. Like, it's okay. And you get into that place, but you're not going to boo me.”
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“Yeah, you're a contributor. Like, how can you, if you want to have an aha moment or you want to have read a book and change, you know, kind of inflection point, it comes from you are open for it. You were ready for it. And I was so desperate with Stephen Covey, but it wasn't necessarily I was looking for it. It was because it resonated so truthfully. Like, I'm screwing this up. I am royally screwing this up. And I cannot keep screwing it up. And I think a lot of people at that moment go, oh, I'm going to keep screwing it up because I don't want to face. Other side of that. That's what Stephen Covey. Remember when he said a lot of people don't want to know how good they are. It makes sense to my brain Unless you get to that space, you really can't change.”
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“The hard part is to open up and take the risk. Truly, internally, and I was living this life where it's like, I want to be great, I want to be great, I want to be great. And anyone who tells me I'm not, I don't know what to do about it, and it feels like I can't overcome it. And it's like you have to become vulnerable. That's how you take it in. And so people are like, what do I do? I was like, in relationships with your mom, with your siblings, the most intimate ones. Can you start to recognize the complexity of that relationship, which it always is. And however you defined it's probably been not a great authentic, vulnerable place. Can you start by opening up to your accountability, to your...”
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“That's kind of what self-help stuff does and tries to get you. And the problem is it doesn't all-time land because I get the idea, right? And so I read the book. Oh, I'll go read the book. You read the book, oh, okay. But the flashpoint is really, to me, the vulnerability that that's the hard part.”
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“It is brutal. There is no good news. There's no good news. You work. I remember the first wrestling, go to just to break in your story. Three one minute or three minute. I can't remember how long. And so by the first one was over, I was done.”
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“And that spring ball was a month, you know, 30 days of practice. He got two weeks for me to practice before I, you know, they made a decision. And by the end of the two weeks, because of this new gift, that was it. That was it. And what that changed, everything, because I was fast. I could run. I could throw it hard. I could process. The game wasn't too fast for me. I kind of all made sense to me. I just didn't unlock that one fundamental piece of throwing the ball.”
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“He goes, that's ridiculous. That's stupid. I go, I know. It's insane. And then I screamed out. I learned how to throw too. I have this.”
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“At the end of that season, because Lavelle Edwards, the coach, said, look, you're super fast, super athletic, we have 10 quarterbacks. We want you on the field. And so I started in the winter practices winter as a safety and a defense coalie position I couldn't stand. I hated every second of it. As soon as practice ended, the quarterbacks would throw after practice. I'd go throw. And in the interim, that coach who told me when Coach lefties took a head coaching job at San Diego State, another coach, Ted Tullner, came in and I'm throwing with the quarterbacks after practice. And he goes, Steve, I thought you played quarterback. I go, I do, but they told me I'm lefty. So I have to play defense.”
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“All I did from that point on was throw the ball. Like, I just wanted to throw it, throw it everywhere, throw it. And what's ironic is that the coach who was the offensive coordinator at the time, soon after, because no one knew. This is all happening. I was eighth. I was no one, but I had figured it out and had clocked in. It was clocking, right? And so I think for me, he pulled me aside later in the year. He goes, by the way, I don't coach lefties. Said it to me. I don't coach lefties. And so I was moved to defense.”
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“Yes, right there. It was my freshman year. I wish I would have written down the day. It was like November 10th, you know. Okay, I was like discovering five.”
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“Once you felt it, you're like, Oh my gosh. And then what I realized is I can now throw it as hard as I want right there. Like it was like this gift I had that was going to go undiscovered.”
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“Once you've felt it, golf is more complicated because you got a stick and you got this like divorced from feedback, right? But in fact, it was in my hand.”
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“Like to spin it, you actually go the other direction using the tension inside your arm as you hold it and then just go in. You spin it, it comes out and spins, but now you can throw it like with all your power.”
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“So one fundamental thing had to happen, which was how to throw the football. It's not intuitive. Kind of like golf. Great golf swings when you grab a club as an adult, you're not going to do it right. And as a kid, I grabbed a football. And because I didn't want to be embarrassed, I wanted to spin perfectly. I would spin it out of my hand. And that's how I did it. But you can't get behind to throw it hard. And, you know, this is not something that was a deep, dark secret. Some people grab it and grab a golf club, grab a football and it's just like, oh yeah, that's how you must do it. That's not how I did it. And so I got to college. I'd faked my way into playing college quarterbacking without really understanding it. And Jim McMahon was the quarterback at the time at BYU. Incredible, second the highest man. Like he was amazing. But he was right and I was lefty and I was like, how does he's throwing it different? And then I realized that you have to, instead of spinning it.”
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“No way. No way. Not every grip. Has to be life or death, like no way. Like, people think about quarterback in the NFL as like, whoa, you know, how do you do? I was like, look, talk about what you just said. This is.”
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