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“Last year it was 60% upfront, but now with the new administration, it looks like accelerated depreciation is back. So if you bought a twelve million dollar airplane, financed it, you can write off the whole twelve million dollars off your tax bill, even though…”

“Let's say you wanted to be the mother of a child, not the father, and we could take your genetic material and create an egg out of that. I think that we're going to see that within the next five years.”

“And then what's also realistic, I think, is extending our lives by 30%. I think we need to be prepared to live till we're a 120 or longer.”

“Paul Graham, even he was my mentor and he's like, you're going to be one of the greatest entrepreneurs of all time. You, Patrick Halston and Sam Altman.”

“I think it's also going to be a lot harder than people think. Cause you have AI that's coming up with all these ideas, but the bottleneck is still regulatory. It's still FDA. It's still getting a clinical trial put together. That's one area where we're going t…”

“Tom had taken a drug called Elsonris from lab all the way through FDA approval, full approval for sixteen million dollars, which is absolutely crazy in the drug world.”

“Like a lot of my unicorn CEO friends, they own like five percent. Of a billion dollar company”

“So this is more of a thematic business area, which will be, I think we're going to see thousands of businesses doing this.”

“If we look back today, most of the companies from that batch did not make it. Most of them went BK and then people took normal jobs or started new companies and then eventually found success.”

“There's research that talks about how your IQ drops by a lot during those periods”

“Yeah, I actually, I mean, this was probably 13 years ago now, but I had a one-on-one with Polygram and I asked him to share, like, who do you think the most you know, successful people you've ever met? Like, who will that end up being 30 years from now if we h…”

“I think AI will sue people for you, yeah.”

“So I did that for 10 years, grew that to a few hundred people valuation and the hundreds of millions of dollars. But the way I built that business was I didn't raise traditional venture funding. So I didn't bring in VC capital. I only brought in some angel inv…”

“When I was 13, I started a dedicated server and co-location business, because that's what I thought you did in high school. That's just, I don't know why, but I thought it was kind of normal. And I grew that set out a few hundred grand in revenue.”

“I literally emailed, like, mark at salesforce, mark.benioff, mbenioff you know, like, every permutation I could come up with, and most of them bounced, and one of them worked, so.”