What's going on, Eric?
Well, we were supposed to shoot something today, but unfortunately the party that
we're supposed to shoot with, they did not arrive on time.
And we do these video podcasts all the time, so you really won't be able to
figure out who it was.
Point being is we had something set up.
Noah came here.
Noah, who is filming me right now.
And it takes him what you take 30 minutes or so, or an hour to set up.
So, when that happens and you know, the setup is done, I'm here as well, and then
the party doesn't show up.
That is not only a waste of my time, it's a waste of Noah's time as well.
It's a, it's time that we could have used somewhere else.
The investment were Noah had to come in early.
He could've been doing other stuff.
Like he has a bunch of other stuff to do too.
You know, I talked about this with a group of friends too.
The ultimate disrespect I think that I see is, when someone is not on time,
especially if it's a group, it's a, it's a group meeting and someone, we have five
people in the room.
And someone decides to come in five minutes late, 10 minutes late, and then
what happens?
They think, Oh, it's just five minutes, but no, it's actually five times six,
right?
30 minutes because that person wants to five others.
You're multiplying a six times five.
It's 30 when you think of it as a business owner, it's actually very frustrating
because I am the one that is you know, paying the salary.
So you'd look at it literally as money that's flying out the door.
It is disrespect because, yeah, you can say, your call ran over it.
You can say this, but if you prepped ahead of time, if you told your other party that
you had a hard stop or, you know, you have to just end your call five minutes early.
Like if you prepped ahead of time, that shows that you've thought about it.
But to let your calls run over and let other people wait for you.
That is a complete waste of time.
This is why I like when people come in to interview at the company.
If they are, they are late, and the first thing I asked is why were you late?
Right?
And you want to say it in a nice way, and I have said it and I say pass.
I remember this one guy came in late.
And then he started sweating profusely and he's like, well, you know, I'm late
because I'm, you know, the, the bus was the, I caught, I caught the bus and it
didn't come at the right time, but it's like, dude, no.
You could have came in like earlier if you thought ahead of time, it would have been
fine.
But the fact that you didn't think about it and you came into this interview, it
already tells me how you think about a lot of things.
I remember I always keep saying like, how you do anything is how you do everything.
One of my biggest pet peeves is if you come in late, and then I remember what,
when I was debating with my friends, like my friends from back home.
Like, even like two minutes late, even five minutes.
Like if you have a really good reason, yes.
But most of the time you're not going to have a really good reason.
Sure there's exceptions, but I think it's the ultimate disrespect, especially if you
come in late and you start asking for other exceptions, and then you start
dragging things out that shows your character.
And at least for us, it's not a fit for our organization, which is why, yeah.
You gotta be accountable at the end of the day.
One of our core
values.
Eric should cosplay or he should make a music video.
I think that he should roast
campaigns.
If you're going to get famous on byte.
What would you do?
Nothing.
I wouldn't want to be famous.
I do something that no one has done before.
There's a lot of different personalities or different styles of memes out there.
We need to find Eric's sense of humor.
His lane.
Make memes of those things and then figure out how to make those memes videos.
Any other questions?
Now, what are we doing, Hannah?
Now, we're having a meeting in the stop sign talking about guests carousels.
For those of you who have been following our Instagram, we've got a lot of like
these cool carousels coming out and now we're trying to figure out a way to get
those carousels to other people's Instagrams because.
Zach, what happened?
They worked, right?
I'm so confused, Noah.
What are you doing?
you see it.
2020 clear vision.
You know, this is a year that, you know, we know, we see our goals.
We set the strategy and now we've gotta execute.
So 2019 is the foundation.
Great year, you know, 2020 is this going to be it?
It's going to be it for us.
Why is everyone down here today?
Because the internet out,
this is our startup.
This is.
From the ground up.
You started here and you'll go up eventually.
And then wasabi and soy test.
You're not supposed to mix it.
That's the very traditional thing.
Brother.
Once I pay my money, I do what I want.
You see the wind just, did you see the, I just winked at the camera.
I didn't get that.
Can you do it again?
I'm going to give it to my boy.
Justice.
Sunday.
Yesterday I was eating with a couple of friends and I found out we're just
grabbing food at the buffet and all of a sudden someone said, dude, Kobe Bryant
passed away.
I was like, no way.
Like, because, it's my hero kind of growing up.
And so Kobe Bryant passed away.
I checked Twitter immediately and it was confirmed by TMZ.
I'm still actually feeling it right now.
I think the reason I'm feeling this is because.
I followed him for over 24 years.
Like when I first got to middle school, everyone was talking about Kobe Bryant.
I like, I've been through life with him, saw everything.
He's an inspiration to us all.
Like literally his work ethic working.
I remember one time he was practicing for the Olympics.
He was 34 years old at this time, and he was in at the gym call the trainer he met
the trainer and he's like, Oh, like, Hey, can you come practice with me?
It was 4:00 AM he was drenched.
When the trainer showed up at like five.
So he was practicing since probably 4:00 AM or so.
And they practice.
They train until maybe 7:00 or 8:00 AM and then the official practice start starts at
11:00 AM.
So the trainer comes back in, sees LeBron James, Carmelo Anthony, these other
basketball players.
They're all talking, but they haven't even started practicing yet.
Kobe is still there.
He's drenched in sweat.
And you know, the most amazing thing is.
Trainer walks up to him.
He's was like, Hey, like, did you get any rest or anything?
Oh no, I just finished up right now.
I had to meet the make 800 shots after we finished training.
So that's the type of work ethic.
34 years old, won five championships already.
17 time all star.
That's Kobe Bryant.
Right?
And so that's why he's everyone's idol, like generational idol.
And so literally, I mean, right now, like I know I don't usually feel emotional, but
I, I do.
So I sent the email out to my team this morning because.
2020 hit and like all these crazy things are happening.
You have the Coronavirus.
It's crazy.
It's such a big thing.
And you have Clayton Christensen, the author of the innovator's dilemma,
innovator's solution, all these, all these amazing books that, he's just an amazing
guy that was hired by Intel, all these big companies.
And he fundamentally shifted the way that they think.
Steve jobs, Andy Grove, all these people, you know, Clayton Christensen passes away
Friday.
Kobe Bryant goes by helicopter.
Which is really unfortunate.
Goes yesterday, early in the morning and then last year I lost a close friend from
a helicopter accident as well.
I lost him in Kenya.
Life is short, right?
I think that's the main lesson I was giving people, it's just you don't, you
don't know what you're going to go.
Literally the week before, that my friend had passed away in Kenya, I was hanging
out with him.
I was on a helicopter that he booked on a boat the week before.
And all of a sudden, boom!
He is gone.
So my, my point to my team was, look, you have to make the most of what you have,
but what you can do is you can control your effort every single day, what you're
putting in so you have no regrets.
What I can feel actually is looking at Kobe Bryant's life and looking at my other
friend's life, like, I can't pretend to know Clayton Christensen, but I can at
least feel how these other two felt.
I don't think they have any regrets.
Sure.
Like, you know, they wished it could have lived with her daughters to see them grow
up and everything grow old with his wife, with their wives.
But you know, at the end of the day, you, you come in, you fight, you push every
day.
That's all he can do.
Cause the next day you don't really know if life is guaranteed.
You don't know if you're gonna get really sick, knock on wood.
But that's the one thing you can't control.
So for you, if you're not happy with your job, then quit.
If you don't like your boss.
Leave.
You'd want to go start something, go start something.
But the one thing that you can control is your effort every single day, day in, day
out, which is why I sent that message yesterday.
I wrote the message yesterday cause I was even more emotional walked by staple
center, all of the Memorial stuff going on.
But yeah, man, 41 years old.
He didn't even start yet.
That's the thing.
You won all the stuff.
You did all the stuff, play basketball.
He didn't even start yet, and that's the sad part.
He had all this other stuff going on, you know, the books, the venture fund, all
these amazing things.
Guy was just getting started in life.
It's just unfair.
So make the most of what you can.
Keep pushing and that's all you can really ask for.
Yesterday.
I went on a hike that I do all the time, and it is by the Greek theater, and you
hike all the way up and you look at the city and the city was all purple and
yellow for Kobe.
And I looked down and someone had made this like amazing Mamba graffiti.
So I cried for like the 20th time this week, but it was beautiful and I watched
the sunrise and the lights turn off.
I'm going to cry again.
Kobe.