Why World-Class Entrepreneurs Think Like Polymaths

I think that one, one kind of perspective for a lot of the world-class entrepreneurs is they're not specialists.

They're, they're something close to polymaths.

And so, um, you know, if you have a conversation with, uh, Mark Zuckerberg, he'd be able to speak, uh, you know, with, with, you know, surprising amount of understanding about a lot of things.

He could speak about the details of the Facebook product.

He could talk about, um, you know, the, the, the way people th- think about social media, the psychology, the, uh, the, um, the, the way the culture is shifting, the, um, management of the company, he has ideas on that.

He has ideas on, um, and then how this fits into the bigger history of technology.

And so it's, uh, you know, whereas, where sort of an academic view is often that you're like a sort of a narrow expert on one thing- Mm-hmm ... and that's what you do, and, and what it is about.

It's, it's much more, uh, sort of this, this polymath-like, uh, intellect who understands all these different things.

And so the bo- the kinds of board conversations we've had over the last, uh, you know, uh, 13, 14 years have, uh, it's just been this, this, this crazy range