"Every single person has something like that. They just don't [ __ ] listen. I just love people that take what they do seriously. We've heard that a few times from some exceptional people. He deserves ..."

"one word would be focus. The way I think about this is like I'm by the end of this year I would have studied read over 400 biographies of history's greatest entrepreneurs right I'm like eight years in..."

"an episode that that I'm proud of. And then the way I feel like when I go online, I'm like, "Oh, these are like the complete opposite. They're the contrast." And one is feeds my soul and one is good f..."

"about this where I get to meet a lot of great entrepreneurs and my favorite entrepreneurs, entrepreneurs I've been the most impressed with, they're all over the age of 70, like all of them. Everybody'..."

"missing something." Like that's maybe they're right. And we got to talk about Todd Graves in the episode I just did because I'm really proud of it. And I think, you know, when people ask favorite epis..."

"you're going to get halfassed effort. This is not exact quote. Like if you multitask, he just he single tasks. Like I'm just focused on whatever is in front of me. He's this great uh quote that I put ..."

"of humanity. That's not a valuable activity. I'm sorry. I'm going to take munger over SPF every day." And I'm so glad I didn't do the episode cuz imagine if I had in the founders back catalog history ..."

"you're never going to get to the real rewards. And the reason you do that is because growth you can track and durability you cannot. And I just did this episode on Ken Griffin and it was fascinating. ..."

"company or whatever and they're at like 8,000 ft and they maybe go they'll hover down to 5,000 feet and they're like, "Oh, we did our job." They're like, "No, no. Neil lands the helicopter, then gets ..."

"great example of this in Steve Jobs that he was heavily criticized in the early of his career because he would make the inside of the computer that you couldn't even open up beautiful and people like,..."

"finger dream? And chicken finger is better than something else because of almost how absurd it is. So te tell us a little bit more about what you've learned from studying him. I I it was probably my f..."

"describe things to me he's just like there's a bunch of examples where he's and he's like, you know, he knows everything about business history. He had 60 years of experience and he would share freely..."

"Griffin talked about this. I've seen this with a bunch of investors. Um we talked about this with Richard Rainwater before. Jay Pritzker was like this. Sam Zel was like this because we'll tie this to ..."

"you're not paying attention. And so when I look at Todd Graves, the reason I wanted to do that episode is one, I I just saw a clip. This is what I mean about learning is not memorizing information. Le..."

"been a big believer in always doing one thing and doing it better than anybody else." And then they kept cutting the clip, you know, it's probably 45 seconds. And he talked about he even got down to t..."

"not make a [ __ ] a difference when the business is, you know, making a couple thousand. That business went up scaling 10, 20, 30x. Makes a huge difference. All of these people, they're obsessed with ..."

"called Insanely Simple. I think his name is Ken Seagull if I'm if I'm correct if I'm correct about that. He was running he was work he was the ad executive uh for the the marketing company the ad comp..."

"the target is something that's not the work itself, it's some other thing. And that the healthy orientation that you're describing that Todd Graves has and all these other people have is actually just..."

"something like that. They just don't [ __ ] listen. They don't listen to themselves. What does it feel like when you find it? Because you said earlier you were 32 before you kind of stumbled on it and..."

"and I know exactly what I want to do. And we talked about this. We have mutual friends that like they're kind of up so obsessed to their detriment about like what will somebody else think of me or lik..."

"every day. We talked about this when we did that live show in New York City. It's obvious if you read the books that the great entrepreneurs once they find what they have they love to do low to zero i..."

"know, even this is in recent few years, they tell a great story, blowout quarter, company's doing incredible. And he he he walks into the meeting, he goes, "Every morning I wake up, look myself in the..."

"have no opinion what you're doing. the the people I most admire, the people that I'm trying to powder myself off of is these people where it's like they have so they're so obsessed about the product q..."

"product. I feel my podcast is a handmade artisal, but it just happens to be like technology and infinite leverage, you know, same amount of work is going to go into it if one person listens or 10 mill..."

"So, the reason I have to edit it is because when this is done, I listen to it. It's the It's the Stephen King thing. I am not just the writer. I am the first reader. That's what Stephen King said. Que..."

"people in my entire life. Right. We talked about this the very first time I was on your podcast. No one in my family even graduated high school, much less college. So it's like I never saw examples of..."

"seriously. Uh, everyday low prices. No one's going to beat us on pricing. So, how do you work backwards from that idea? There's all kinds of technology, the logistics, there's challenge, all this othe..."

"of finding one's mission and then pursuing it forever. And I I would just love to hear you riff a little bit on what that has taken for for you in the last I guess we met in 2022 so call it three and ..."

"drift. You know, we talk about this all the time where when I describe you to other people, I'm like, well, you have to understand Patrick is doing like the best episodes all day long, every day, like..."

"maybe only made like five or 10 other notes something small but something he said is very fascinating. He's like for reasons I don't quite understand. Since I was in the third grade, I've been obsesse..."

"craftsmanship of the product and one of the main ideas goes back to your question about the anti-billion anti-b businessiness billionaires The reason I say and I do this same book over and over again...."

"relationship between a father and a daughter or a mother and it's just like it's clearly something that pops up in these biographies over and over again all the time and and Wright has right Thompson ..."

"for me to filter who I want to spend time with. And my favorite people to spend time with, like they're all they all work in vastly different things, but they take what they do so seriously. And it's ..."

"like this way. Like think of like one good thing about decentralization of media is like there's no gatekeepers. That's also the bad thing in the sense of like now there's a somebody just put me on to..."

"it's just like you're glorifying the wrong thing where like if you think about there's this great talk that Steve Jobs gave when he came back to Apple and he's talking about Apple spends all this mone..."

"I'm thinking about the Red Bull founder Estee Lauder like this seems to Steve Jobs of course this shows up over and over again that not only is the ability to create an incredible product God I love t..."

"compound again if you don't sell after 5 years or four years or do anything that that puts in jeopardy the durability of your company. And so I think about James Dying. He has this great line and I'll..."

"Ferrari episode and it showed like the racetrack the test track and they're like here's the test track and then literally Enzo Ferrari's house he built the racetrack around his house right and so it's..."

"told you they're good. What is it about the Red Bull story? Um, it's so unique. It's so different. It's one of my favorites that you've ever done. So, this is another again like it's like you you know..."

"and it's like two stars on Amazon so you know there's people writing it's probably like Chat GPT wrote it or something or the old version of Chat GPT the new version actually the deep research can wri..."

"do you want it? Most people like, "Oh, I'll wait till next week. I'll catch you a couple days." He's like, "I'm coming today." 33 years old. You always see the true interest is revealed early. He was ..."

"there's like a limit to like the actual application. I guess the the these ideas you can scale down and scale up, but like there's just not that many talented people in every field and they they're re..."

"he is really young and really gifted. His name is Maxim. Uh he is in my opinion one of the best short form editors in the world. Shout out Blake Robbins for for connecting us. It took me a while few m..."

"first. And so the answer your question is like one even me who every single episode is like overpay for talent. Find the best people. Never ever forget the dynamic range of humans. You know, uh Steve ..."

"doing clever deals, clever financing? Is there is there any dimension there that's worth exploring? This where I'm starting to get in trouble too. I talk I have I literally have no friends that aren't..."

"He's like okay uh these oil companies hire boiler makers and what happens is there if a refinery goes down every day that thing is down that's very expensive them. So boiler makers come through and th..."

"20-year-old kid. And he lived in a tent. He lived in a tent. He ate nothing but ramen noodles. He risked his life right on the boat. He went to the boiler maker. Then he comes back. The boiler makers ..."

"60. And so, it works as long as people come in and start buying chicken fingers. And so, he's like, I was rolling. I was balling out of control. It gets to all the way up to 28 stores doing this. Leve..."

"in like 2024. Yeah. So to taking taking, you know, something that's terrible and turning it into an actual opportunity. So that's like pretty creative way to finance something. And his whole point is ..."

"We have to be very creative and very pay attention to this." We started our conversation talking about focus. To conclude it, can you just define after all this study what the the word founder means t..."