Eight Sleep on The Tim Ferriss Show

Transcript

And so he imagined Uber way before Uber existed. That was point number one. Point number two, he went to see various entrepreneurs who were in this space, and he checked them out. And he had the discipline not to invest in them. Because although they were kind of going at the right thing, there was some hair on the deal, some wrinkles, some way they were approaching it that just felt like it wasn't gonna be quite right. So he resisted. Uber came to him before Travis was the CEO. And Bill said, I'm not doing that because he didn't think the CEO at the time had what it took. And then there was a internal switch at at Uber. Travis became the leader. Bill meets him and, like, bang, he immediately invests because he's been waiting and waiting waiting for the idea to be paired with the right person.