Straight Answers

“Yeah. I mean, how many years did you not pay yourself in order to just invest in deals instead?”

answered: “every dollar you spend on yourself is a dollar you have less to invest”

“I'm not going to cut it. I'm not going to make it.”

answered: “If so, always listen to your guts.”

“Do you ever get pushback from saying this stuff online by people who are like, I'm a victim?”

answered: “By no means am I pardoning the wrongdoing and, and horrific behavior of others.”

“You didn't lay your voting card on the Can you walk me through each decision, please?”

answered: “what was clear early on was that we did have some different stances on things”

“Um, but I'd like to, I've never gone further with you into that question. How do you think about speed and moving fast, and how do you know if you're moving fast enough on the decisions you want to make in life?”

answered: “the money is easy. It's having an idea that you can execute on.”

“So how do you actually find your intuition?”

answered: “if we take it back to the medical establishment, we can go down another money”

“uh, I've never built a billion dollar company, so I really have no idea, but one of our, our, uh, I think our differentiators is like, yeah, we're gonna grow a little bit slower than other people, perhaps, but, um, you're gonna probably make less money, but you're gonna have less volatility. How have you thought about layoffs in your companies and growth, and how do you think about that?”

answered: “I don't think it's ever a good pitch that someone's gonna make less money”

“And by not involved, you mean that they weren't funding you?”

answered: “so I had zero insight into the inner workings of the Democratic Party machine”

“You're not the personality type that can build a very valuable company. Is not the kind that can sit around and do nothing.”

answered: “It's also, I think, incredibly difficult to simplify things.”

“Like, I feel like a lot of creators can also package up what, They say into these courses, but maybe not a lot of them do because it's hard to price yourself in many ways. How have you thought about that?”

answered: “I think there's two reasons people don't do info products.”

“Your coffee is so bad. It is a, but yeah, no, I'm with you, so.”

answered: “two hundred million dollar project that is basically a glorified strip center residential unit”

“And at some point in time, did something happen that caused you to believe that it was all made up and there was no right and wrong. And then there's some other behaviors that, you know, might interact to lean you in one direction or another.”

answered: “so do you think that means that we're creating more psychopaths today?”

“Do you think they actually change governance on most of our companies in the, in the U.S. because they own them, or are they truly passive?”

answered: “I love low cost index funds. I, you want to have some fun.”

“You have lines that your family says continuously, and then you have lines that you guys do not say. Is that right?”

answered: “nothing is enforced. It just has become kind of like a family mantra.”

“Why does he, why don't they train them on that anymore? Is it because cesarean sections are really expensive and”

answered: “you could follow the money rabbit hole... however, I guess when you're 37 weeks pregnant”

“What other advice have you gotten from your dad that's left a mark on you?”

answered: “The first one that comes to mind wasn't from my dad.”

“Do you think that's true? And if so, how do you tell if somebody has it or not?”

answered: “it may be that both relationships and taste become even more important”

“And how much cash did you have to start it with?”

answered: “I had cash to start it with, but I like, I grew up poor”

“What personality tests do you use for your team in order to tell who is what?”

answered: “I highly recommend if you're gonna hire, do behavioral interviewing.”

“And, like, how many friends did you have coming up, did you watch, never make it?”

answered: “I'm the only one of all my friends who's done something of this scale”

“So how convincing is someone? And I think that ends up being really, really important.”

answered: “I realized that there is just a huge value to being willing to put the nose”

“What jobs or skills would you absolutely never let them do because of AI?”

answered: “I don't have a strong opinion on that. Where my opinion is, is”

“So what do you learn? Like when you're going into a meeting with Warren Buffett, with this mentality you have of like cloning the best ideas, learning from the best, what did you learn?”

answered: “let me go back a few years before the lunch, because then you can understand”

“And so I was curious for you, what are those moments like where, you know, you have to stand up for other people, and how do you decide, you know, what to do in those moments?”

answered: “I stood up for night and we, we had an incredible relationship.”

“Is it a negative signal to actually focus on projecting wealth? Wealth.”

answered: “In, in our schools, we start teaching about money in kindergarten.”

“And so, you know, if we were taught, you go to school, you get great grades, you go to college, you get a good job, then you make money and that's how you get rich and happy. What do you think the real process is?”

answered: “sort of where Alpha came from was if you stepped back and said”

“Do you think entrepreneurs should ever have multiple businesses before they do 10 dollars in revenue?”

answered: “I've many businesses that aren't doing ten million dollars, but I don't run them.”

“One cried in my office the other day, and I was like, I've never fucking seen this before. Have you ever had somebody cry at a meeting with you?”

answered: “So my last company, by the end, like Teachable, it became very hard to manage”

“Do you think young Sahil, young finance bro Sahil would struggle with talking about love? Did you talk about love back then too?”

answered: “I viewed a lot of things as a distraction to the important thing, which was making money.”

“What would people say to you? Like, was that normal that other people believe in God?”

answered: “People in my life think I'm not. I mean, I'm like speaking light language”

“for bachelor's degree holders is like 35 to 40% higher than those who don't have it, so it's like you got to go to college to make more, but it's more expensive than it ever is relative to how much you wait, you, you make, and so How do we fix that, or do you think that the point of college is, is not to make us make more money?”

answered: “I think the bigger story is that when you're in your early twenties”

“Do you, do you understand philosophically, like, what is going on with the youth today? And do you have a take on young men today, how they're thinking, and how maybe they could be thinking different if they wanted to change their lives?”

answered: “Not much. Um, I, the, the, the reason I started the channel”

“Don't the problems get bigger in some ways?”

answered: “It depends on how, what your relationship with money is.”

“Like, what exactly is it? It's data, it's AI, it's all of these words that maybe seem like a bad guy could use it.”

answered: “we worked really closely with a lot of the special forces communities”

“In the beginning, were you like picking up the phone and giving them a phone call? Were you shooting out texts?”

answered: “we were the users, right? So we were building for ourselves at first.”

“Do you think that you're attracted to it because it is the most played game, which means that you have For most competition, which means it might be the hardest game?”

answered: “No, I think it's interesting because I, I, my education's primarily from biographies”

“Don't ignore my comment. Please, Cody.”

answered: “first let's look at college. So should you go get an MBA or really”