Just Keep Building

The other thing I did at college.

Is I like building, right? And a.

Lot of these things were.

Just things I built for fun. Like, here's this website.

That has, like, basically quoted all your friends.

All my friends said, like, really stupid, silly stuff and we would quote them, and then it was like this digital.

Version of a quote board. This was when I was here, when Jim Harbaugh was here. And it was like we were the worst team in the country.

Football team to, like, one of the.

Best teams in the country.

And, like, he was. Is David Shaw still here? No, he just left.

All right, so, like, Jim Harbaugh was.

Like, crazy.

And, like, David Shaw.

Was totally stoic.

So you can go see that. Zoolander. Best movie in history. So made a website on how to Blue steel. Made like a quantified self thing.

So, like, built a bunch of things.

I actually had a Dropbox folder of, like, 75 different things I built. I counted recently and there's like, a few other folders. I couldn't find it.

But the point.

Here is, like, one of the things I really noticed is.

I just did this for fun because I liked it, right?

It wasn't like I was, like, trying to start a company or anything like that. And the other thing I really noticed from talking to people.

Was everyone who had built something great had just built a lot of things, right?

So, for example, I think I had mentioned before, Mark and I were playing chess at Facebook, and I was like.

Yo, dude, did you know that Facebook.

Was going to be the thing?

He's like, no, man.

We built like nine things before.

Facebook, right?

Like, Facebook was just.

Like this. We thought this thing.

Called Wire Hog, this file sharing thing was going to.

Be the big thing, right?

The same thing with Bill Gates. He had built, like, a bunch.

Of things before Microsoft.

So really that.

Was kind of a key lesson that I took away.