Contrasting Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and Sam Altman
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And Launching The Turpentine Awards
Housekeeping: 8 years ago, I tried to launch this site called The Rise Awards — basically a way to surface/highlight top talent. I also did an experiment like this with Cosign, where I got 1,000 people to share people they thought had potential to start big companies or be influential in some way. Looking back at the selections, the picks were actually useful and predictive. I didn’t end up scaling either of those efforts because On Deck and Village Global started taking all my time, but in continuing my tradition of trying the same idea over and over, I’ll soon be launching The Turpentine…
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