00:20:35 · John Coogan, Jordi Hays, Joe Lonsdale, Tyler
[00:20:35] S1: A good laugh for everyone on the timeline. [00:20:38] S0: Should we head over to one of Joe's portfolio founders? Sure. Friend of the show, Scott Wu. What'd he say? Scott Wu was doing some math. Yes. [00:20:48] S6: The national thing, obviously, that got too easy is then you take eight cards and you make the current year. And this year is now 2025. And so we get to try that one. And in this case, it's actually quite quite easy because 13 minus 12 is one, 11 minus 10 is one, one plus one plus seven is nine. And it turns out that nine times nine times five times five is exactly 20 times five. Okay. Well, that's that's okay. So at some point, gets too easy. [00:21:13] S1: Do you think he [00:21:13] S0: has to [00:21:14] S1: practice this? Because I know he's been elite at mental math and these... Like, all these different types of math challenges from when he was a kid. But, like, this can't come up on a daily basis in his job as CEO of Cognition. Right? Or does it? [00:21:29] S0: I think you should do it with potential hires. [00:21:31] S1: Okay. [00:21:32] S0: It's like, hey, let's go. Let's talk for a couple hours and then let's block off thirty minutes for math tricks. [00:21:37] S1: Yeah. I mean, he has that story about playing... What was it? High stakes poker for term sheet with Founders Fund? [00:21:45] S2: Yeah. Yeah. He was playing, I think, poker against Napoleon. [00:21:47] S0: Napoleon. Chess versus Peter. [00:21:49] S1: Yeah. Okay. Was the one [00:21:49] S2: he he wanted to do.
00:21:49 · Tyler, John Coogan, Jordi Hays, Ben Lamm
[00:21:49] S2: he he wanted to do. [00:21:50] S1: Okay. But, yeah, I mean, you pull that trick out with a with, like, a mid tier VC who's trying to cram into a later round. Like, it's a it's game over. You get whatever price you want. [00:22:00] S2: Think this is a learned skill. [00:22:01] S1: You think so? Yeah. Okay. Learn it. Alright. Okay. I wanna see. [00:22:05] S2: Alright. In a month, [00:22:06] S0: I I'll... I think I [00:22:06] S8: can do [00:22:07] S2: this on this channel. [00:22:08] S1: We've given you so many challenges. It's like learn the drums. Prestige at cost. [00:22:14] S0: Skydive without a parachute. [00:22:17] S1: That one's doable with a net. Right? Didn't they... No. [00:22:19] S0: You gotta do the Pastrana method. [00:22:21] S1: What's the Pastrana? [00:22:21] S0: Other people... [00:22:22] S1: Oh, other people get you. Okay. Okay. I like that. I like that. Yeah. Very, very fun. It's it's sort of a magic trick, I guess. I mean, it is a learned skill, I suppose, but it's... I I feel like more founders should have, like, a trick up their sleeve like that. I feel like something, that... To get people going, you know, to to to break it up. It's not just rehearsing the same talking point, something to remix. Party tricks. Everybody can do the Rubik's cube, so that one's kinda... But not everyone can do the the eight by eight Rubik's cube that you appear to have been very close at and failed somehow. What happened? [00:23:00] S2: This is a a special pattern I I made.
00:23:00 · Tyler, John Coogan, Jordi Hays
[00:23:00] S2: This is a a special pattern I I made. [00:23:02] S1: It seems like you were very close and yet so far. That looks like a failure. Oh, now... [00:23:07] S0: Let's head over to the Knicks. [00:23:09] S1: Okay. [00:23:10] S0: And let's check-in with the Knicks. [00:23:11] S1: What's going on with the Knicks? [00:23:12] S0: The Knicks assistants were told they would receive championship rings eventually. But many long time employees at Madison Square Garden, including some who work in the Knicks business operations, will not receive rings at all, team sources told The Atlantic. Typically, most employees for NBA teams receive rings even if they are not as fancy and expensive as the ones the players receive. Those MSG employees got their hopes up at the end of September when the Knicks sent an email to a long list of employees which gave recipients a first glimpse at their would be championship rings. Atop the email, a copy of which The Athletic has obtained, was a graphic of two differently styled rings. Congratulations, your employee championship ring is here, the email read. Employee name, this is one, this one is on the house. MSG is issuing a complimentary employee... [00:24:01] S1: I saw this and I didn't understand the full context. Now I get it.
00:24:01 · John Coogan, Jordi Hays
[00:24:01] S1: I saw this and I didn't understand the full context. Now I get it. [00:24:05] S0: It's why. MSG is issuing a complimentary employee championship ring. The same jeweler, the same craftsmanship, personalized with your name. No cost to you. There are two designs to choose from. Championship Gold and Garden Classic. Reserve the one you want below. But the email was a fake out. A phishing test, Madison Square Garden sent to see if those employees would click. Multiple team sources said. Those who did click the link at the bottom of the message did not get to choose any jewelry. Instead, they were forced to attend a mandatory cybersecurity class to help satisfy some of Dolan's growing cybersecurity concerns. Those team sources said, definitely the most insane thing I've ever heard of a company doing to... [00:24:52] S1: I think it's a good plan. We gotta start doing this. Send in Jackson. Hey, we got you Nitro Circus tickets. Click here. If he clicks it, he's gotta go to cybersecurity training or send me Literally. To truck rally. [00:25:03] S0: Figure out what every individual on the team, their hopes, Personalized. Their Yes. Like it has to be something that Yes. That is... They literally have dreamed about for more than a decade Yes. And then deliver that. Deliver a phishing email based on that. Yes. And you could actually use AI to do that.
00:25:03 · Jordi Hays, John Coogan
[00:25:03] S0: Figure out what every individual on the team, their hopes, Personalized. Their Yes. Like it has to be something that Yes. That is... They literally have dreamed about for more than a decade Yes. And then deliver that. Deliver a phishing email based on that. Yes. And you could actually use AI to do that. [00:25:18] S1: Yes. You could. You could. So I I actually... I I mean, I understand this isn't very poor taste, but I don't know this much.... Dale Earnhardt Junior. I I I don't have as much of a problem with it if there is a... If there is actually something about it that if you inspect the email thoroughly enough, you can tell it's a phishing email. So it has to come from m s g [00:25:47] S0: dot don't have a problem. I don't a problem with that. [00:25:50] S1: But if it just comes [00:25:51] S0: from m g they're saying it's normal for all the employees to get rings. And so these people not getting rings but getting the phishing email and having to go to the cyber security, you know, the naughty naughty meeting. Sure. Is completely insane. [00:26:11] S1: Okay. I get that. [00:26:12] S0: And demoralizing and if you were one of these people, you're... This is like getting that... You work at MSG. You work for the Knicks. [00:26:22] S1: Yes. [00:26:23] S0: You won the championship. This is... This probably will become the item in your life that is most significant to you. Sure. The thing that's irreplaceable. [00:26:34] S1: Yes.
00:26:34 · John Coogan, Jordi Hays
[00:26:34] S1: Yes. [00:26:35] S0: You've been hearing that, oh, maybe we're getting it, maybe we're getting it. And then Okay. And then you don't get it and you I [00:26:41] S1: wanna stop. [00:26:42] S0: And so you get the phishing email, you're just a little bit excited. So I can see cyber criminals taking advantage of this kind of thing. It it might even happen. Right? Like, hey, when when a team wins a championship, send a phishing email Yeah. About rings Yeah. To everybody involved Yeah. And let's try to break into their systems that way. Sure. [00:27:04] S1: Yeah. [00:27:05] S0: But that being said, this this is totally fair game to me if they were actually all gonna get rings. [00:27:10] S1: Oh. Okay. [00:27:12] S0: I I... Don't mind I don't mind if it's like, yeah, you you're you're... You have to go to the cyber security class but you're getting the ring. Oh. Click the wrong email. But I'm saying like not giving them the rings and... But then using the rings to fish to to catch them [00:27:25] S1: Rough. [00:27:26] S0: Failing a fishing test Sure. Is just crazy and and cruel. It's cruel and unusual punishment. [00:27:31] S1: Okay. Unless... [00:27:32] S0: I don't even care about basketball.