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By now he's spent 14 years starting companies and being an investor. The best thing about being a founder is that it forces you to grow; good things or bad things, you will have to learn. It will get beaten into you, whether you like it or not. That is a tremendous experience. That's like going to a business schools that gives you money to learn; an opportunity of a lifetime!

These fears are very dangerous and also completely not true. Thanks to innovation, the world has grown many-fold in the last decades. We are opening up whole new markets and products to serve them. If we want to grow as a nation and to live in peace, we have to empower the world to get better. That will create opportunities for jobs and new products, and will keep our world healthy and secure. It's the only way.

You are better off not hiring your friends, but if you have to, it is important to discuss the worst case scenarios and to figure out how you would either avoid them, or work through them. Derek and David knew each other for a long time and had a lot of mutual respect, and even then, they had to answer a lot of questions, including what it would look like if one of them quit or was fired.

The best VCs will invest into a great idea, but there is no better validation that getting actual users. Even if all you're doing is collecting signup from ads on Facebook, for a product that doesn't exist.

Yes, definitely. There are many ways to demonstrate fit, which begins well before the application process. Students should go on school tours that they are interested in, attend any events a school hosts in their in local communities, be engaged in a school's social media pages, etc.

No. It's actually the toxins that hurt us. More than likely, we are eating Staph all the time. If they're small amounts that aren’t producing a lot of toxin and hasn’t been sitting there at room temperature for a long period of time for the bacteria to grow to produce the toxin, you will not get enough of it to hurt you.

Zimmer says that being left-handed or right-handed seems to be inherited, but scientists cannot find the genes to prove it.

Charles thinks that trade, immigration, and foreign policies should be paid closer attention to. He states that if goods don’t cross the borders, soldiers will.

Sahil started by learning design and code for the web, with a simple goal to make enough money to buy some games. Soon thereafter, he took a free online course from Stanford on developing for the iPhone, doing it while he was still a high-school student. He then started to experiment, making more apps. Eventually, Sahil went to college at USC, and only lasted for four months before he dropped out and joined Pinterest to work on their iPhone app full time.

Courtland started with ~800 downloads per episode, distributed to his early newsletter subscribers, and now he is getting around 50,000 downloads each episode.

Fantasy 2020 is a list of most crazy things that Noah wants to do in 2020. Here's what's on it:

Have an epic October Fest.
Write a popular book.
Have Ok Dork audience to reach 10x current size.
Create a business Netflix show.
Make a Serial-like podcast.
Visit Tokyo for the Olympics.
Interview 3 more people on his "attainable list."
Mentor every person at Sumo.
Get a 1982 Rolex Explorer.