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Optimizing for peak performance, David Hauser Managing Partner at Durable Capital

16 Aug 2024 · 1 min

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Excerpt from a YouTube interview (recorded Aug 16, 2024) where David Hauser describes a mindset of personal optimization for top founders. Hauser contrasts societal concerns (e.g., fixing chronic disease) with a higher-scale aim of optimizing human performance and explains his focus on how founders can reach that optimization efficiently.

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I'm really saddened by our society as a whole, but I'm fine with the rest of the people being different. Right. Like, if I'm going to be different, that's fine. I want to optimize myself. Right. So I don't think that for, from a founder's perspective, we should be thinking about, like, how do we fix chronic disease? We're going far, far beyond that. Like, that's, that's at the beginning of the scale. If you want to be a top, top founder, building a great company, you're on the other side of the scale, which is far beyond disease. That's optimization. And that was really what I tried to write about. Like, how do you get to that optimization standpoint with as little amount of time as possible?