Hiring Mikey at 18

Yeah and the impact. Wow I just realized I've been really like throwing you questions and having a conversation. I don't want to overrun my time with you at the same time but it's been an absolute pleasure but there's one thing that keeps in my mind that I want to always ask you. So... Coming back to the design, the way you designed two companies and the way you designed the teams and what I realized in your team, you made a hire. you hired somebody who was 18 years old and then his peers are getting internships in banks and other places or they drop out and then they try to build stuff but then instead you guys I don't know whatever happened between you two and then you clicked he got to the font and he's still studying in the university and then you moved him to simply silicon too like this is for me

Yes.

a definition of also your actions speak for your mentality to outlier mentality like let's tell can you tell us a little bit about michael like what made you

I can. Mikey is like a... Mikey's, he's got that dog in him. He's just unstoppable. So he was 18 when we hired him. He'd already somehow at the tender age of 18 been working for other venture capital firms just cause he's crazy. He's just so crazy. He goes after it super hard. Mikey is now fully deployed across the platform. I work with him every day directly, even though he's like by far on the way, youngest person in the whole organization of like, know, however many people now.

Hahaha!

He's moved across the country to just be closer to what we're doing here in Calgary. Mikey is one of a kind and he's the kind of talent that when you come across it, you just have to absolutely move on it. There's no question to me. know how Peter Thiel has the Thiel Fellowship of like, I'll give you a hundred grand to drop out. I want to go 50x that on Mikey. Mikey is an extremely strong investor.

Mm.

and underwriter and he has success in a track record in underwriting good deals. One. Two, I can bring him around to our Capitol and tour the facility with, you know, some of the highest end people in the world who are like flying in for tours of this facility we're building here at Simply Silicon. People who I have no even business being in a room with, let alone this, you young dude. And he can just charm them and take them through and give them a tour. And by the end of it, they're like, how do I write you a check, young man?

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