Hello friends, welcome back to the show. My guest today is Julian Smith. He's the CEO of

Breathe, a startup founder, investor and an author. Elon Musk is trying to buy Twitter,

so I wanted to ask someone with experience of the startup world to explain what this tells us

about Silicon Valley's modern approach to business and their obsession with growth.

Expect to learn what is unique about the startup mindset, why Elon might be poisoned

piled by Twitter's legislative documents, the difference between founders in startups

and regular businesses, how not getting discouraged and just keeping going can count for a lot,

why being first is a disadvantage as well as an opportunity and much more. Say what you want

about Elon, it is significantly more interesting to live in a world where the guy who actually has

the money and the ability to take over companies actually goes ahead and does it whilst everybody

else just talks about the way that they would try to change things. It's nice to see someone

that's got skin in the game, so I love him or hate him, I think there definitely is a lot to

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