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Q I'd love to know, like, obviously when you're the CEO, if you're selling your company, you're probably operating at level five superstar, but then you go into Twitch, you said it was a very different environment. Did you feel yourself moving downward towards like level four or level three?
A Yeah, there's gravity. Gravity is moving you downwards, right? Because you're supposed to, you know, like you, if you go to these big companies, you're not the CEO of the founder and more, not all the problems don't roll up to you. All the opportunities aren't your decision, whether you're going to do them or not. And so gravity is kind of pulling you down to get to like, kind of like a level three, which is like a bit of a, you're just a sort of a task doer, or you can, or maybe you can manage a team of people to do, to do a set of tasks. But I was just like trying to fight that. So like, I had a great conversation with my buddy Furkan when we got acquired and he goes, he was pulled up the company metrics, like the company dashboard. And he's like the CEO view basically. And he's like, which one of these numbers do you think our project will move? And I was like, I, like, I was just thinking of they bought our company to do X. We should come here and do X. And what he was arguing was like, cool. That made sense when we were trying to sell this company to them. Of course we wanted to say how big of a deal it was. And now that we're here, we're on the same team. We should just be more objective. Like, is our thing gonna move any of these metrics? And he goes, don't you just think like whatever we do while we're here, we should just be able to move one of these KPIs like five or …
AI assessment note: “Yeah, there's gravity. Gravity is moving you downwards, right?”
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Q on what's happening right now. What the current thing is. We obviously focus on X as a platform. But if you're only consuming content on X, then you're not injecting anything sort of new. Um, and you're just like part of the hive mind. How do you think about your information diet and kind of where, where do you spend your time, uh, kind of coming up with, with ideas?
A Yeah, it's a great question. I, I think that, uh, the, the information diet is probably like today, something that only nerds like us talk about, but it's going to become a very popular concept as people realize that it's garbage in garbage out. So, um, you know, I think the problem that the tech guys have is you, uh, we will all go consume, not necessarily garbage content, but just the same content, right? So we're all on X, We're all reading the same things. We're listening to all in and listen to the same podcast. And then guess what? You have the same thoughts as everybody else. And like, while calling yourself a contrarian, right? It doesn't really make sense. And so, you know, for me, uh, I do a couple of things. So I have, I have a phrase that I like, which is, um, kids, dogs, and dead people. And I want to spend as much of my time as I can with kids, dogs, and dead people. And, uh, you know, so what does that mean? Kids will teach you a certain set of things. So kids, kids are highly, uh, playful. They, they work with their imagination a lot. They're completely delusional. They have no idea of what's realistic and what's not. And so the more time you spend with kids, the more playful you become, the more imaginative you become, the more delusional you become. So I take that from them. Uh, dogs are sort of these unconditional lovers, right? The dogs are, are always, alwa…
AI assessment note: “I have a phrase that I like, which is, um, kids, dogs, and dead people.”
