(lightning booming)
- There was a great thing that somebody
said to me years ago,
and I say it all the time.
There's two ways to build the biggest building in town.
You either just build the biggest building in town,
or you spend all your time
tearing everybody else's building down.
And if there's anything on my last breath
that I'm most proud of, is I'm out here
just trying to build the biggest building.
It would be the best if all eight billion
people had this mindset.
You wouldn't have a single bad thing happen in society.
(laughs)
If you actually cared about everybody else
and didn't impose your own hurt on someone else.
- [Interviewer] So where do we start?
Because you would say parents, maybe?
- Yeah, I think you start with even the conversation.
We start with this fucking film.
(urban music)
I think about succeeding in one very simple story.
There are two ways, my friends, to build
the biggest building in town.
Step number one, just build the biggest building in town.
Step number two, build a decent-sized building
and then spend all your time trying to tear down
everybody else's building around you down,
so you end up being the biggest building in town.
My friend, 95% of people try to do number two.
People that tear everyone else's building down
are hurting inside and want other people
to feel pain, misery loves company.
And are so insecure that they actually think
that that $1 or that opportunity is only available.
They don't live in a world of abundance.
I do think some people think the lives of a population,
like black lives matter more,
that means my life matters less.
And I think that's super wrong.
That's why people are replying saying all lives matter.
They don't get it.
They think that it's like a competition
or there's space that black lives are taking up.
People hear black privilege.
And I've been watching how people have been acting.
They think that comes at the cost
of somebody who's white or Asian.
- Absolutely. - That's crazy.
This is not a black, white, girl, boy issue.
This is a positive, negative issue.
- [Man] That's it.
- It's fucking stupid.
Of course your life matters too.
How do you not understand that you should
only be as happy as your most unhappy fellow human.
That level of compassion, sympathy, empathy
is fucking required for your own happiness.
How in the world does anybody translate
black lives matter in their head as
no, no, but my life matters too.
Yes, yes, yes.
But that's why this is on my mind,
because when you see things happen socially,
it translates in my brain business-wise.
These are the same people that think
when somebody else's store opens up,
that they're gonna lose.
See, I think the problem is so many people
want to win at somebody else's expense
without understanding that there's so many
variations of winning, and every one of us
has a totally different definition for it.
And when my homie Travis from Uber,
and when my homie, Chris Saka becomes the best VC,
and goes on "Shark Tank" and they beat me,
I'm the most pumped for them.
They deserve it.
And then I say, but it's not over yet.
(audience laughing)
And that's who I am.
- [Interviewer] Why do some people get mad?
- Because they're sad.
Because they're selfish.
They care about themselves.
But the question is, why do they care about themselves?
They care about themselves because they're insecure,
and it's a protective mechanism.
Most people that come along that have
a lot of talent to amass attention
and resources and wealth and power,
a solid amount of them lack humility and altruism.
But I think a lot of people were also lucky
in having kindness and capability in them.
They just weren't watching something
that made them think that was the thing to do.
That's what this is all about, right?
This is all about like, no, I'm not that special.
There's actually millions of people
in the last 100 years that had what I had.
It's just they grew up in societies and messaging
that made them think differently.
I think that Steve Jobs came along, became an icon.
But the sad part of that narrative
was he did not treat his employees well.
He became an icon and the narrative became,
he got the most out of people by being a jerk.
And that became romanticized.
I could literally watch people that I knew
who used to be nicer start treating employees like jerks
because that's what Steve Jobs did.
And a lot of people in Silicon Valley today
run companies where they're mean
because they think that's the right thing to do
because they put Steve Jobs on a pedestal.
I want my pedestal moment.
I want to become that big.
And what I want to come from that
is that kids that aren't even born today
think that they can build a $5 billion company
and be a great guy or great gal.
And what I want to do is inspire two 14 year old girls
in Kansas City right now to build a billion dollar company
on having a bunch of employees
hugging each other in the halls.
I feel this crazy, weird sense of responsibility
that I was given all this talent and capability.
And I'm like, okay, I need to communicate how I do it,
because I do think I do it with a more empathetic,
sympathetic, compassionate, human, good intent.
If you asked me point blank, do I feel like
I've already moved the collective entrepreneurial world
a little bit, a hair towards it?
I do because I've just had hundreds and hundreds
and hundreds and thousands of entrepreneurs
reach out to me and say, I'm a better person
because of this or that.
And I think the more successful I am,
the more people will try to parrot that behavior.
So I think positivity and good is practical advice
to building an empire.
And I wanna be the poster child of the person
that built the biggest, baddest empire
and did it by being a good dude along the way.
And that's the legacy I want to leave.
Let me make it perfectly clear to you.
The world is abundant.
Nobody else is taking out of your pocket.
Everybody who's watching this film right now,
if you're good enough, nothing's gonna stop ya.
♪ Why would you run from me, run from me yeah ♪
♪ You could just run to me, run to me yeah ♪
♪ The feeling's electric ♪
♪ Why would you run from me, run from me yeah ♪
♪ You could just run to me, run to me yeah ♪
♪ The feeling's electric ♪