Housel: Outlier Founders Like Musk and Bezos Are Tortured, Not Ambitious
Morgan Housel · Morgan Housel – Same as Ever (EP.359) · Jan 1, 2024 · at 44:25
Morgan Housel discusses the psychology of extreme outlier entrepreneurs with Ted Seides on Capital Allocators.
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“Patrick said the phrase that he would use to describe their personality is not driven by It's not ambitious. It's tortured. They wake up every morning tortured that they are not more successful, bigger, richer than they are. And I think that's true for virtually all these people, Musk, Bezos, Gates, all these people, I think woke up tortured every single morning. And that's what's driving them.”
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