The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
00:50:15 · Mike Cannon-Brookes, Harry Stebbings
[00:50:15] S0: Man, ask me in 20 time. I hope I get that right. I I think probably try to be yourself. I read a quote from I think it was a Goldman's old Goldman Sachs CEO says you can tell a lot about people when they get promoted as to whether they grow into the job or swell into it. And I feel like man, I've been desperately growing every year I've been in this job. And I definitively do not feel like I deserve this job. And I have to work crazy hard to deserve it next year or to grow into it or whatever term. I think it's the same, probably some similar version of this with with your kids. If you are curious, if you are humble, if you have gratitude, if you display all those properties, you probably give them the best chance to understand where it is that that that comes from. But I'm sure it's a huge challenge. Tell me if you figure it out. [00:51:00] S1: Actually, I I I got given some brilliant advice, which is it's just like the National Geographic channel. Watch the elephants. The baby elephants watch the adult elephants and copy them. So if you want your kids to be hardworking and kind, maybe be hardworking. Show them that you missed bath time because you were working hard on that Amsterdam trip to make money for the family, and take them to the coffee shop and be really kind to that barista and ask them how their day was and let them see that. Or if you don't want them to retire at 45, cheat on your wife, and be horrible to the barista, and you'll probably have assholes too.
00:51:00 · Harry Stebbings, Mike Cannon-Brookes
[00:51:00] S1: Actually, I I I got given some brilliant advice, which is it's just like the National Geographic channel. Watch the elephants. The baby elephants watch the adult elephants and copy them. So if you want your kids to be hardworking and kind, maybe be hardworking. Show them that you missed bath time because you were working hard on that Amsterdam trip to make money for the family, and take them to the coffee shop and be really kind to that barista and ask them how their day was and let them see that. Or if you don't want them to retire at 45, cheat on your wife, and be horrible to the barista, and you'll probably have assholes too. [00:51:34] S0: Yes. If you're asking, do they copy the way that you act and treat people? I I I think I think that's definitely true. [00:51:42] S1: That was the advice that I took. What's the best advice that you've been given? My... You sit around some pretty interesting tables. [00:51:49] S0: I think the phrase that I would say, certainly for the last handful of years, I would say, wage peace on yourself. I think lots of things are really hard, and having a good attitude and knowing that you tried your best at something, whether it succeeds or doesn't succeed, etcetera, try not to be too hard on yourself if you've if you've done all the right things. And I think for a lot of people, especially in the tech industry, their bars on themselves are incredibly high, and that can be in its own way a new sort of stress. So, you know, touch grass, wait a speech on yourself.
00:51:49 · Mike Cannon-Brookes, Harry Stebbings
[00:51:49] S0: I think the phrase that I would say, certainly for the last handful of years, I would say, wage peace on yourself. I think lots of things are really hard, and having a good attitude and knowing that you tried your best at something, whether it succeeds or doesn't succeed, etcetera, try not to be too hard on yourself if you've if you've done all the right things. And I think for a lot of people, especially in the tech industry, their bars on themselves are incredibly high, and that can be in its own way a new sort of stress. So, you know, touch grass, wait a speech on yourself. [00:52:21] S1: Final one. What do you not know that you will be capable of achieving that you do need to personally scale?
00:52:21 · Harry Stebbings, Mike Cannon-Brookes
[00:52:21] S1: Final one. What do you not know that you will be capable of achieving that you do need to personally scale? [00:52:28] S0: I'd probably say the same thing I said before. It's like how to create moments of slow thinking, moments of slowness in the world that is moving increasingly fast. I think that's going to be a skill that we all need to develop. If we think the the notifications on our phone and the pings from social media and all these sorts of things are distractions, if you're not able to handle that today, jeez, I think that the the accelerated technology pace, that's gonna be really hard. It's a real world out there. Like, sometimes in the tech industry, everyone just lives in a screen like this. I wanna claim I'm staring at a camera in a screen. Right? And all these bits and digits and things, you know, there's a real world out there of stuff that we're creating and and slow down to go fast. We've gotta learn how to slow down and how to really do that that deep thinking at a time when everything appears to be more fractionalized and speedy. And so it's a real challenge. [00:53:13] S1: Mike, do you know how I define a good person? [00:53:15] S0: I do not. [00:53:16] S1: Someone who's willing to help with no immediate or clear benefit to themselves of that help being given. You've always been incredibly kind to me. Thank you. Seriously, I really appreciate it. You haven't needed to, but I really appreciate the relationship. [00:53:31] S0: Hey. No worries, man. Anytime. Let me know how I can help.
00:53:36 · Harry Stebbings
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