If you only had one skill, which is that you could get other people to do things for you, then you could then say, Hey, go build me a business. And fundamentally that would work. But it brings up Andy's issue, which is you wouldn't know who's full of shit and who isn't. So the base level of understanding is so that you can just pressure check the fundamentals of the business. One thing that has continued to stay true for all the businesses that we've scaled is simple scales,. fancy fails being advanced just means that you do the basics at scale.

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