Finding Undiscovered Talent

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[00:03:15] – His passion for Crank and Whiplash and why movies are great screeners for interviews

[00:06:15] – Overview of Pioneer

[00:07:56] – Defining talent

[00:10:02] – The equivalent page rank when it comes to people

[00:14:10] – Psychometrics and matter to him 

[00:18:13] – The importance of persistence 

[00:20:23] – The concept of insecure overachievers

[00:22:48] – Fast twitch vs slow twitch capitalism

[00:24:31] – Importance of memes as it relates to human behavior today

[00:26:14] – The landscape of the type of businesses being formed

[00:29:25] – Overview of GPT3

[00:33:33] - The Power of Ten Playbook

[00:38:08] – Technologies going from a frontier to a utility 

[00:42:45] – Why something like a Starlink can’t be regulated

[00:44:58] – Seed vs leech ratio in capital funding

[00:49:10] – Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success

[00:49:15] – Dissecting Patrick’s usual closing question and good questions for screening people

[00:52:56] – What questions help him get to the bottom of

[00:55:58] – Kindest thing anyone has done for him