Adam Jacob

I feel like Jeff gave me my instincts and the things that I intuitively believed about how to build great products, like both the vocabulary and some more technique, like story mapping and those sorts of things that I could use to really bring those things into the world. When I worked at Chef and was the CTO, I got to work with a lot of different CEOs.

Jesse Robbins, who was the founding CEO of Chef. Mitch Hill, who succeeded Jesse. Barry Crist, who succeeded Mitch. All three of those people taught me so much about building businesses and being in venture capital businesses and building teams. I continue to learn a ton. I have a very well-educated... My wife is Katie Bethel. She's a very impressive human being who does a lot of like...

Jesse Robbins, who was the founding CEO of Chef. Mitch Hill, who succeeded Jesse. Barry Crist, who succeeded Mitch. All three of those people taught me so much about building businesses and being in venture capital businesses and building teams. I continue to learn a ton. I have a very well-educated... My wife is Katie Bethel. She's a very impressive human being who does a lot of like...

Jesse Robbins, who was the founding CEO of Chef. Mitch Hill, who succeeded Jesse. Barry Crist, who succeeded Mitch. All three of those people taught me so much about building businesses and being in venture capital businesses and building teams. I continue to learn a ton. I have a very well-educated... My wife is Katie Bethel. She's a very impressive human being who does a lot of like...

political advocacy and management of large organizations, which is the kind of person who can like look at the power structures in the universe and think about ways to manipulate those power structures to create the outcomes you want to see in the world. And I continue to learn a ton from her and from the sort of people around her.

political advocacy and management of large organizations, which is the kind of person who can like look at the power structures in the universe and think about ways to manipulate those power structures to create the outcomes you want to see in the world. And I continue to learn a ton from her and from the sort of people around her.

political advocacy and management of large organizations, which is the kind of person who can like look at the power structures in the universe and think about ways to manipulate those power structures to create the outcomes you want to see in the world. And I continue to learn a ton from her and from the sort of people around her.

Sammy Hagar, who was the second lead singer of Van Halen and himself like a solo star for a long time. I feel like he's really figured out how to be maximum Sammy Hagar all the time in a way that I really appreciate and would like to be.

Sammy Hagar, who was the second lead singer of Van Halen and himself like a solo star for a long time. I feel like he's really figured out how to be maximum Sammy Hagar all the time in a way that I really appreciate and would like to be.

Sammy Hagar, who was the second lead singer of Van Halen and himself like a solo star for a long time. I feel like he's really figured out how to be maximum Sammy Hagar all the time in a way that I really appreciate and would like to be.

As quickly as possible, you need to move from this being your calling and a question of like your identity. Like when you first start in this journey, there's a lot of questions for yourself and from other people about whether you can do it and whether you're good enough or whether you're qualified or whether or not you have enough technique or any of those sorts of questions.

As quickly as possible, you need to move from this being your calling and a question of like your identity. Like when you first start in this journey, there's a lot of questions for yourself and from other people about whether you can do it and whether you're good enough or whether you're qualified or whether or not you have enough technique or any of those sorts of questions.

As quickly as possible, you need to move from this being your calling and a question of like your identity. Like when you first start in this journey, there's a lot of questions for yourself and from other people about whether you can do it and whether you're good enough or whether you're qualified or whether or not you have enough technique or any of those sorts of questions.

And then there's that question about who you are as a person, right? Am I a person who can do this? Am I a person who can be an entrepreneur? Am I a person who can do all of that stuff? All of that's very incredibly heavy, right? It's just it's really very emotional and takes a toll on everyone who decides that this is the work that they want to do.

And then there's that question about who you are as a person, right? Am I a person who can do this? Am I a person who can be an entrepreneur? Am I a person who can do all of that stuff? All of that's very incredibly heavy, right? It's just it's really very emotional and takes a toll on everyone who decides that this is the work that they want to do.

And then there's that question about who you are as a person, right? Am I a person who can do this? Am I a person who can be an entrepreneur? Am I a person who can do all of that stuff? All of that's very incredibly heavy, right? It's just it's really very emotional and takes a toll on everyone who decides that this is the work that they want to do.

It took me a long time to realize that this was my profession. And I think the sooner you can turn this into your job and a thing that you can get good at, it's very difficult to decide to be good at becoming the person you hope you could be. That's a it's a pretty big ask.

It took me a long time to realize that this was my profession. And I think the sooner you can turn this into your job and a thing that you can get good at, it's very difficult to decide to be good at becoming the person you hope you could be. That's a it's a pretty big ask.

It took me a long time to realize that this was my profession. And I think the sooner you can turn this into your job and a thing that you can get good at, it's very difficult to decide to be good at becoming the person you hope you could be. That's a it's a pretty big ask.

But if I ask you to become good at a skill, if I ask you to become good at the skill of managing people or to become good at the skill of thinking about strategy in a company or to become reasonably facile with finance or with any of the hundreds of things you have to do in order to run a startup, those are jobs you can learn how to do enough of and become good enough at that they can become your vocation.