Sublime

Even if the VCs didn’t all realize that Sam was playing a video game at the same time that he was talking to them, most sensed that he didn’t care what they had to say. Ramnik came to think that Sam’s indifference to their feelings actually heightened their interest in him. That FTX was profitable and didn’t really need the money probably also help

You have thirty bullets to fire and this is not a charity; this is a war. You should meet with the best teams capable of building products with sweat equity (see chapter 7) and who have the most traction. Perhaps after you make a huge return, you can run an incubator for people with business plans, or a coding school for people who don’t know how t

When a VC is wrong, they lose 1x their money. When they are right, they can make 20x their money. Downside is limited, but upside is not, which is why VCs are fine with companies that can lose 100 percent of their money at the very low possibility of making 10x the investment.