Pre-gaming Cold Emails - Cup of Zhou

That's another thing too, where I'm only interested in people that do things for a long period of time. There is a subset of people that can start a great business or be a great investor for two years, five years, 10 years. I'm interested in people that, you started the conversation saying about Edwin Land and Estee Lauder. Okay. Two obsessives. Th... See more

Across the board, my advice is that it's a numbers game. Putting in the work to have a wide variety of conversations will almost always lead to success , but people just don't really want to do that. The rough numbers that I throw out are: if you want to get [1] good opportunity (job, customer, etc.), you need to have [100] conversations with relev... See more

Zoom out. As Patrick Collison said when describing his admiration for Jeff Bezos to Ezra Klein:There’s something quite deep about the notion of using time horizons as a competitive advantage, in that you’re simply willing to wait longer than other people and you have an organization that is thusly oriented.