The tolerance for failure is just so much higher. I just met so many people who just burned through tens of millions of dollars on what seemed a trash idea, and it was a trash idea! And then it was like, 'Okay, great, well now I'm going to do the other thing.' And then the next thing is also a trash idea. Great, they get to put $100 million into that other trash thing. And the third thing is amazing, and then it's a multi-billion-dollar company.
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