How To Win The War Of The Future - Joe Lonsdale - #934

You mentioned you'd just been with uh Peter that I was explaining an idea from a friend earlier on, George. Uh he talks about non-fungible people, like N of Wands, Mike Isratel, good non-fungible person. Yes. Uh who are some of the most non-fungible people that you've met across? I mean, of course, you know, you have to go with Peter Taylor and Elon Musk, but also people early in my life.

My original chess teacher, Richard Shorman, he passed a few years ago, but he was like a intelligence officer and he dropped out. I think he faked his own death and he was kind of living like a in poverty, teaching chess and was like this chess master, sensei, who taught me Eastern philosophy. So I I've had some interesting, crazy people I met over the years, you know, who really shaped my life. Talk to me about the story of how you saw Peter out as a mentor.

Well Peter was the founder of the Stanford Review and and uh he was just someone who was I thought was just a fascinating intellectual character at the time. And, you know, honestly what it was also is tracking talent. And so I think that's something I've always been interested in is what are the most interesting, brightest, harsh working people doing. And a lot of the smartest people at Stanford when I was there were going to work at PayPal.

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