I got rejected from YC (4x). now my side hustle is worth $1B+

So I actually wrote a blog post. The title is 'Do What Makes the Best Story.' When you're faced with decisions where there's no obvious answer, the fork in the road where the pros and cons are sort of the same, the heuristic I use in my life is, what is a more interesting story?

Naval has this great quote where he says, people always ask him how to build a great network or networking; what are your tips for networking? And he's like, my only tip for networking is do something great, and watch; your network will appear overnight. People will immediately come to you because you've done something great.

Find an industry where you're familiar with, and just build a GPT wrapper to automate some of the work there, and you could do it a hundred times, and one of them will take off.

Paul Graham talks about it all the time. The best startups are solving your own problem.

I was never nervous about meeting famous and established people, and I think that helped me over time, because I can be myself and I can talk to them at the same level as opposed to being a fan boy.

When I was in college, I was like coding all the time; I wasn't really going to class. And so, I was failing a lot ... And I decided to hack the university to change my grades.

What does the world look like when anyone with an idea could make something.