Palihapitiya argues pain is a fantastic amplifier of capability required for entrepreneurship at mega scale.
“Pain is a fantastic amplifier of capability, some sort of like grudge, pain, anger, but you know, the child that had a wonderful upbringing is a wonderful human being and not a great entrepreneur.”
Palihapitiya describes Stanford experiment where mice normally drown in four minutes without intervention.
“They ran this experiment at Stanford where they take like a big bowl, fill it with water, and they drop in a mouse, and they measure how long it takes for the mouse to drown.”
Palihapitiya says mice rescued once then tread water for sixty hours instead of four minutes.
“They drop the mouse back in the water, and that mouse treads water for sixty hours”
Palihapitiya characterizes Dario's worldview as distrusting all actors except those who reason like him under his designed rules.
“The list of trustworthy ones is conspicuously short, and it has a suspicious tendency to resolve towards people who reason the way I do operating under the rules I help design.”