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Luck, seizing opportunities, and going all in are key to success. Don't overplan your career, be open to possibilities, and give your all to every opportunity. Keep your eyes open because you never know what may come next.

Ben Gilbert: based on observing you and your history and everyone else in your family, it would become like a paint factory that would then like buy all the other paint factories and expand up and down the stack and then figure out how to add like 15 other businesses. And it would become this like beautiful conglomeration of something.

Dara Khosrowshahi: I don't know. You know, you could be right, or I could have just gotten totally lucky by falling into Allen& Company. I really do think it was just things came together and everyone's career who's successful, it's a combination of luck and opportunity and taking advantage of the opportunity. I think I got lucky. So

Ben Gilbert: that's like a nice thing to say. There are a lot of other people that could have lucked their way into an Allen& Company job and then not turned it into an incredible performance with one of the most important people where your model needs to hold weight, which is Barry Diller in that exact crucible moment in time. What do you say to young people when they sort of ask you this question about how much does luck have And do with it and how should I be the most prepared and how can I seize opportunities when they come up? I

Dara Khosrowshahi: think I always tell people that the most common mistake that I see in young people is that they overplan their career. And like, oh, I want to do X, or I want to be vice president, or I want to make so much money by a certain time. And when you overplan your career, you know, there's this human bias, which is to look for signal that agrees with the plan that you have and ignore it, everything else that doesn't agree with it. So my advice for young people is like, don't overplan. You never know what opportunities are going to come up. I plan to stay at Allen& Company my whole life. It was my place. My brother wound up being there. But being open to possibilities, being open to opportunities, and then when you get that opportunity, going all in, you know, like it's just don't hedge. If you're going to be in something, go all in and do what's required of you. And then like 50% more, like blow people away. And then, you know, tomorrow, maybe something else comes up and you'll get there. But like, while you're in, you go all in. But at the same time, like keep your eyes open

David Rosenthal: because you never know. All

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