If you're the winner, people are going to copy your stuff.

Rather than shing and moaning about it, get used to it, and win.

I talk to business owners obviously a lot now.

And I see this recurring theme among losers.

And the thing is, is that I used to think this way. And so I want to half talk to my

older self. I'm half making this for our portfolio founder. You know who you are. And I think

I might get a little spirited today. And so the idea is around thought ownership. And so it's this idea that you have when you're a kid that if you have an idea or you have a joke, that it somehow belongs to you.

It's like when you figure out that one plus one equals two and you tell somebody else, you believe that for the rest of their lives, that one plus one equals two belongs to you.

But the thing is that no one owns truth, number one, period.

No one owns truth.

And the fundamental idea of how human beings learn in general is through replication and remixing, right?

Everything that you have ever done has come from someone else that you have remixed in some way,

and the degree to which it was remixed is the degree to which it was original.

Now, the reason that I think this is important to delineate is that this is how kids in

kindergarten get into fights. This is how siblings in the backseat of

the van get into fights. That's mine. That was my idea. But in the world of business,

basically nothing is yours. And so I want to really, really drive my thumb into this wound

because there was a portfolio company who was like, hey, you know,

I was making content about this stuff and one of my competitors started making content

about that stuff and they're stealing my ideas. They're stealing my ideas. First off,

no one's, first off, they weren't your ideas to begin with. Number one. Number two, stealing implies that some damages have been caused as a result of the other person making content. And if they're, if you're ever going to somehow be made whole

in the legal system that exists in the United States,

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