My next guest is Rajesh Setty. He is often referred to as Silicon Valley's secret "spark plug" for startups, scale-ups (and shake-ups)
Being a Polymath, Rajesh is constantly in the middle of running experiments across a variety of seemingly unrelated areas of interest, but with the common goal of how to create a better world through the projects, he incubates as one of the founders or participates in some meaningful capacity to help the founders.
Together, the startups that Rajesh has co-founded are valued at $150+ million, and the ones where he serves as a mentor are valued at $700+ million. Finally, he has also taught 2000+ entrepreneurs as part of Founder Institute & beyond.
We talked about
(01:22) Rajesh's fearlessness in publishing
(11:53) Attach yourself to effort and detach yourself from results
(18:45) Relationship building and social media
(26:38) How Seinfeld provided him with infinite motivation to create
(30:26) Mental health is about stories we tell ourselves about ourselves
(33:18) Value creation is about giving meaningful gifts at scale with low incremental costs
(38:11) 3 kinds of value creation: Delta T, Delta B, and Delta E
(61:26) How a bicycle metaphor illustrates value creation for organizations
(65:16) How to stay calm even amidst triggering events
(69:22) How to manufacture goodness from misfortunes
(78:04) The art of making good asks
(78:11) The 3 time scales of relationships: long-term, very long-term, and lifetime
(101:04) Choose 3 things carefully: projects, conversations, and people
(102:56) How to ignore the critics on the internet
(104:27) Rajesh's hack for gaining capacities at scale
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