Chamath: How to be successful

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Chamath Palihapitiya is a venture capitalist, engineer, CEO of Social Capital, and co-host of the All-In Podcast.
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Full podcast episode: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oXe0hnd5nLKdiMU Lex Fridman podcast channel: kzbin.info Guest bio: Chamath Palihapitiya is a venture capitalist, engineer, CEO of Social Capital, and co-host of the All-In Podcast.

[@Av-vd3wk]

You REALLLLLY wanna know “The Secret”?? - The SECRET is “FU*K” Other people over more than THEY Fu*k you! - Sad but true!! A lil bit*h like Chamath is NO exception. #Truth.

[@Av-vd3wk]

Here’s THE problem with millionaires and billionaires, like Chamath…These tools dish out advice as though they’ve solved life’s Algebra problem. And when he talks, like he is here, speaking as though his thoughts and words are of such magnitude and what not…Fact is, you could CREATE a homeless person or a 1st year high school student this “wealthy” and they will also have the same sense of self-importance as Chamath does…yet…he’s just a fool like you.

[@Ghostrider-ul7xn]

"Success" is subjective to the individual's wants/needs. To someone who is materialistic, making more money is their definition of being successful. To others, its just having the comfort of their loved ones near them.

[@blablableep6811]

My success is not starving and being able to cover medical expenses without losing the roof over my head

[@CashCultura]

W

[@teepot4539]

Just go by the Oxford definition please.

[@the_devilboy666]

Both times Chamath lit up, about Elon sending a smiley face and his other friend crushing it… are about relationships. Relationships are the sauce of life

[@andreipiv]

and luck

[@eduardovaldez-modonese5517]

@@andreipiv I think you don't get the point. Sauce = what it's actually about. True & meaningful bonds btw humans.

[@dstern86]

An indicator of success? Being featured on a Lex Fridman podcast!

[@quitequiet5281]

Creating value is success... Whereas pursuing profit is loosing sight of what is actually valuable...

[@scottydog9997]

Not a Chamath fan, but you know what? This was a good message!

[@jonysingh6272]

can I ask why? did he do something sketchy

[@MitchTube]

Having met and worked with a few highly successful people I have noted that they have a level of tenacity and belief in an idea that surpasses anyone I’ve met before. I know in myself that I don’t have that drive or resilience and am happy. I find my success elsewhere

[@Ausnapify]

Lol same bro.

[@anirudhkannan9]

Could you expand on that? Sounds fascinating. Both what you observed about them, as well as your own realisations about yourself.

[@MitchTube]

@@anirudhkannan9 I work in the film industry. Would you be willing to spend 10 years of your life to get your story to screen. Would you bet every cent you own plus money borrowed from friends, family and investors to make it happen all the time knowing it’s unlikely to be successful? If you fail would you try again, and again. I have heard stories like this multiple times from “successful” people. Are ready to be trolled and persecuted as a failure? It’s not for me!

[@Mpfumo]

@@MitchTube It's definitely not for me

[@spikeboy101]

Their tenacity and belief only withheld because life hasn't shattered them with endless failure and suffering. Being broken again and again, sooner or later you give up. You're only human.

[@ByEliPerry]

Great frame of perspective!

[@eduardovaldez-modonese5517]

This was very cool. You gotta get Naval, Lex. That would be Amazing. Love seems to be a core motivation for you both. It would be a beautiful conversation.

[@pcase34]

Naval is legendary. Also his conversations with Dr. Kapil Gupta are great.

[@Naatti922]

Cool narrative bro.

[@jonysingh6272]

lex X naval ravikant would blow the world

[@chairmanoftheboard11]

I'm always interested to see what type of parents these guys have and what grammar schools they went to growing up. It's interesting to me.

[@MorphingReality]

Could somebody ask Lex if I can use bits of this for a video ?

[@py_a_thon]

Dependent upon your choice of use, a Fair Use argument can potentially defend your use of content created by someone else. This should be noted though, Fair Use is not a permission slip...Fair Use is an often very successful legal defense in the western world (and specifically: the USA)

[@MorphingReality]

@@py_a_thon I try to make a habit of asking first, for whatever it is worth :)

[@py_a_thon]

@@MorphingReality The private sector of free speech often does not allow one to ask permission to use content for the purposes of 'satire, commentary and unique derivative works that add value to the world'. (My bad. I actually forget the exact sentence. That is the gist of the arg though.) Basically, unless you know someone who knows lex fridman, then you will never have the opportunity to ask to use his content. Also, he is not a musician. He is a socially significant speaker of words in the private sector. US Law specifically has conditional arguments backed up by precedent for this purpose. That is where fair use comes into play, in terms of legality. If you want to be 100% legal and not even deal with fair use of content, then just perfectly transcribe the words and read the words with your own voice and perhaps with text on the screen. You are unassailable in that form so long as you do not misrepresent the words of others. (ie slander, bullshit, lies or something else that causes civil or criminal culpability)

[@py_a_thon]

Grigori Perelman was successful at solving one of the millenium puzzles. According to the stringent definitions of society defining success, he would be a fool and a failure. He solved an absurdly complicated problem(based on someone elses seminal work, he proofed the Poincare Conjecture, explicitly), he then refused to accept a million dollar prize, and then asked to be left alone. People define success differently. Society attempts to impose definitions upon you. You can decline.

[@Nika_Scott]

Yo he was spittin facts in this one

[@occxxxy]

Isn't success = peace of mind? For the culture

[@spikeboy101]

Not for everyone. Some morons think success means being on a hamster wheel their whole life, working. Self induced problems just to keep themselves preoccupied.

[@ChrisE1415]

How to be successful: Sell a whole lot o dodgy SPACs to naïve investors

[@Leoninmiami]

Lex!! No! Hell No. What success "is", is not obvious. When I read this title that's the first thing that came to mind ... successful at what? Chamath hit it out of the ballpark with this one.

[@susza89]

Also Elon wasnt exacly poor at the start which give a lot of options to have an impact on the world. His dad owned an emerald mine... TBH if I had a milion to start I probably would just chill for most of my life. People that have the option and still choose to do meaningfull hard stuff is just so rare. Chamath was probably right yoi have like 50 people on the world with those options (financial and intellectual) and still do so many sacrifices. Elon deserves all the credit and we should be very greatfull for what he does.

[@waynepayne864]

saw this and now im successful

[@enesuzunoglu3881]

Everyone talking about the AXN36T launch best news this year

[@BabakRahnamaofficial]

I don't 100% agree with the things Chamath says. People can set big financial goals and succeed. So him saying if someone just wants to make a Million Dollars - they are going to fail - Well I think he is 100% wrong on that :-)

[@MEHMETKUS-ri6yo]

Look like Algorand has the same chart then Amazons AXN36T

[@AliAhmed-eo5cu]

He didn’t answer the question, question was how to make an amazing tech company and he just said that success is what you make it which is true but not the answer to the question imo

[@nerassurdo]

Success requiere a level of discipline and drive /hard work towards a pursuit that most ppl just don't have. If I gave you 100 million tomorrow you would not invest it in a business. You would retire and spend it on bottles and models. The guy that achieved the level of success where ppl talk about you is not doing that. He's still working 12 hour days...or more.

[@frncscbtncrt]

I think this gentleman is a charlatan, but that’s just my feeling

[@gerrih3483]

Success is shilling Solana and dumping bags on retail investors

[@bondonekat2085]

frfr lol

[@wendyg8536]

If Elon began to have some reverence for the sacredness of the human in their wholistic sense, the immensity of the heart, and the spirit being central to our being, rather than 'the brain', the mind. Happiness is wholiness.

[@TheOtherDerek]

I don't know who this guy is but his view of the world is off.

[@paulheydarian1281]

It's his world view.

[@EVOL.U]

Nuggets

[@freethinker79]

Ask him about that one time he said "no one cares about the Uyghur genocide."

[@MK-jq8ow]

I don’t care about it and most people don’t who aren’t constantly online watching news

[@freethinker79]

@@MK-jq8ow Not shocked. Chamath is an asshole, and like attracts like. Unconscious soul-deadened psychos who lack the capacity to feel or care beyond their own selfish needs and desires are largely why this world is going straight to hell in a hand basket. At the end of the day, its all just one big race to the bottom. Enjoy your sleep.

[@enestastan3141]

Boys is it best to invest in AXN36T monthly or weekly? I'm thinking the fees will be higher if done weekly.

[@Stickynotes555]

Do you think Elon is a successful person?

[@Chessmapling]

By societal standards, yes

[@nobu1730]

@@Chessmapling by any standards yes lol! he has done so much for humanity by accelerating electric car, global internet with starlink and reusable rockets.

[@Ausnapify]

Uhhhh no, Elon Musk isnt successful. Is that what you want?

[@fabulamcafee]

@@nobu1730 is this sarcasm?

[@nobu1730]

@@fabulamcafee i mean do you know any other elon?

[@freethinker79]

Newsflash Chamath: "Success" in an evil system isn't TRUE success.

[@youtubecensoringcomments7427]

Lex is so clueless

[@xpfota]

Does Lex just read questions asked by other people to seem smart?

[@marilyng8127]

Chamath is quite a brat in his podcast, and praising Elon? Please…To me he represents superficiality

[@samlloyd672]

Lex is a complete fool. Poor guy

[@TheOtherDerek]

Elon is a con.

[@Chessmapling]

He may be a questionable person, but Tesla and SpaceX are hardly con companies

[@fabulamcafee]

@@Chessmapling "questionable person" :D | they are honey and they are going to blow up, then you are going to say that it took long, but you are the reason

[@paulheydarian1281]

@@Chessmapling Especially when compared to that FTX con.

[@jeffyboyreloaded]

Reusable rockets is a con? Alright

[@profoundclarity8497]

I dont take financial or life advice from someone who praises elon musk...

[@occxxxy]

Lmao. There's this beautiful Futurama episode where an old hag in a funeral said, "die early, live a pretty corpse I always say." Bender replies, "you should say something else." Is what this shitty comment reminded me of

[@nicklamart643]

Good luck with that

[@yagzsavtekin7348]

Best day of my life Amazons annnouncement with AXN36T did so much we can't be wrong now, can we?

[@martingaledaily6426]

this man crashed solana

[@AC-mp7cx]

huh

[@chasev]

I made a bag off solana last year

[@martingaledaily6426]

@@chasev i made a bag and lost it

[@Neonmalibu]

@@martingaledaily6426 Who's fault is that?