Yash

.@naval on @elonmusk: He is a perennial risk taker. He’s always willing to start over. He doesn’t have any pride about being seen as successful or being seen as a failure. “I’m always struck by the Elon Musk story where he did PayPal… And he said something along the lines of: ‘I made $200 million from the sale of PayPal. I put $100 million into SpaceX, $80 million into Tesla, $20 million into Solar City, and I had to borrow money for rent.’ This guy is a perennial risk taker. He’s always willing to start over. He doesn’t have any pride about being seen as successful or being seen as a failure. He’s willing to put it all on the line. Even now, his new startup is the USA. He’s basically trying to fix it like he would fix one of his startups. It’s a willingness to look like a fool and a willingness to start over. A lot of people just don’t have that. They become successful or rich or famous, and that’s it, they’re stuck. They don’t want to go back to zero. And creating anything great requires zero to one. And that means you go back to zero. And that’s really painful and hard to do.”