#138 - How A Big Bitcoin Bet Paid Off, How To Best Learn From Billionaires, And Should Engineers Have Managers?

If you want to get paid more, the way to do it in a startup is to win more market share; the way to do it in a big company... In reality, it is the internal perception that's going to matter way more than the external results.

Once you see somebody make money in a certain way or make a certain amount of money, if you're sufficiently motivated and smart, you can learn really quickly how to go down that path.

When you're in a small company, you're fighting the market, and when you're in a big company, you're basically competing against each other.

Nobody knows everything. Rich, smart people are totally wrong on several things, so you cannot take everything at... their word.

When you see somebody who's truly great at something, you now know what it means to be truly great at that thing. Before you thought the bar was here, and actually, they've raised what the bar can be.