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Re: Greg

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's exactly the thoughts that came to my mind. Article is big on complimenting Greg about his qualities being able to follow others, and drive a given vision handed down to him. Hopefully, this article is simply not doing the Person justice and is simply poorly thought out and comes out as a superficial 'fluff' piece.

Different people are skilled at and like doing different things. I'm not the "big, original vision" guy. I'm the guy who pairs with the big vision guy and figures out the myriad details required to make that big vision come to fruition, figures out how to reign in the unrealistic, unachievable, or merely "sometime later" parts of the vision, so we can deliver in the near-term on the parts that are achievable. That me…

The guy who made me work on an MVP for the next 3 month while he was on a vacation told me the same thing.

Apparently, if you have a big enough vision, it's along the lines of "why aren't you working for my awesome ideas for free? I even gave you teeny amount of equity"

Re: Greg

#102
post #38
post #8

But why does Greg need a cofounder?

(I am Greg.) Starting something new is incredibly hard. The default is that your company never even forms, and it's on you to overcome the activation energy. I don't think I'd have the mental fortitude to stick that out alone. In contrast, there's nothing more motivating than working with great people (and it's hard to do better than Ilya, Sam, and Elon). Everyone brings their own core strengths to the table, and if…

I use to think the same things but I realized that all the soft skills that the other guy claimed he possessed were all attainable with relative ease compared to the hard skills around coding, machine learning etc.

Re: Greg

#103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Different people are skilled at and like doing different things. I'm not the "big, original vision" guy. I'm the guy who pairs with the big vision guy and figures out the myriad details required to make that big vision come to fruition, figures out how to reign in the unrealistic, unachievable, or merely "sometime later" parts of the vision, so we can deliver in the near-term on the parts that are achievable. That me…

The guy who made me work on an MVP for the next 3 month while he was on a vacation told me the same thing. Apparently, if you have a big enough vision, it's along the lines of "why aren't you working for my awesome ideas for free? I even gave you teeny amount of equity"

I think I might use that quote and print it on T-shirts.
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