Alright, we are in studio and joining me today is the COO of Teal Capital, the co-author

of Zero to One, which I keep on the set normally right over there and the next senator from

the great state of Arizona, Blake Masters. Welcome to the Ruben report.

Thank you, it's great to be here. I'm glad to have you, man. I've wanted to do this

for a while. We wanted to do it in person. As I said, you are the co-author of that book,

which I think was really one of the sort of formative things for me to get involved in the

tech world and all of that. And I know that's obviously something that interests you a lot.

So why don't we start there? How do you start working with Teal and getting some of these

ideas across about making new things? Yeah, well, I was a student at Stanford Law School.

And I remember my friend said, hey, Peter Teal, the founder of PayPal, was going to teach

a class. And so we should take that class. And I didn't know that much about Peter then.

I knew it was libertarian, businessman, billionaire, kind of PayPal. That seemed cool.

Good ridden. So he was into C-steading, this idea that you should maybe think about how

to start new countries. We should get back on that idea.

So he seemed like a cool guy and what an opportunity to take a class from someone who wasn't just

a professor. I actually done something in the world. So I took that class and sort of

befriended Peter. This was my second year in law school. Went to go intern for him at his

venture capital fund that summer. And then he came back, taught another class my last year

in law school. I took really good notes on that class. I just basically typed down everything

he said. Because I liked the first class, but I can't tell you too much about it because

it's all lost to memory, right? I wasn't like a big note taker in college because who cares?

But the second time I was prepared, so I wrote down everything Peter said, cleaned it up,

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