You can bucket great founders into three backgrounds. I think probably the most common is that you had kind of a messed up childhood. The second most common would be you're gay. And the third most common would be you were adopted. Look at like a list of the all time greats. Elon Musk kind of messed up childhood. Jeff Bezos, Steve Jobs, adopted, Peter Teal, Sam Altman, you know,

publicly gay. And I think that all of these early life experiences end up giving you some

desire, some deeper passion to go out and prove yourself. This is 20 VC with me, Harry Stebbings,

and today we have one of the most wild stories in AI, Hebbier. Three years ago, George Sevolker couldn't make

his rent of $300 a month for a mattress on the floor. He snuck into Stanford dining room halls

for meals after dropping out. He raised his first two rounds of financing with clothes

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