Dharmesh Shah describes his trillion-dollar Venn diagram: the rarest people excel at both verbal and quantitative skills, like top test scorers. When someone who's one in a billion can turn that dual competency into a product, that's where outsized success happens.
If you took the SAT or the GRE or the GMAT, there are people that are really good at English portion of the test. There are people that are really good at math portion of the test, but the ones that score really, really well are the ones that are good at both. They don't have to be the best at both because that's the thing that's actually rare is the combination of the English and the quant. This is what I call like the trillion-dollar Venn diagram of success. So you draw those circles of your skills and say, okay, well, I am now not like one in a million, I'm one in a billion. And if you can convert that into some kind of monetizable business thing or whatever, that's when magic sort of happens.
