I dunno. I have this -- gut instinct that 90% Trump was right on his hunches over. And I have a strong feeling about Jacob.
What I like about him - is he just showed up - and he told me things to do - he was so honest and I like that about people.
Without any fear.
And it reminded me of me.
I think I 2x'ed the original proposal to him.
But it's really hard to like hire the Eric Schmidts of the world, I mean, dunno how long Larry Page and Sergey Brin had to
Burn through those candidates until they found one person
And no -- there's no The Apprentice (Sri Lanka), no Alan Sugar, no Shark Tank, no -- there's just silence, then, reading CVs, and listening, and picking.
Jacob is the one we chose. He's also amongst the first to apply. Shockingly. We got about 10 people. And we'll close it.
I used LinkedIn, Wellfound and Indeed. And I remember that Bob Bigman, he promised me he'd be a director at my firm, if we were a US company indeed.
I always liked that dude, he was the CISO of the CIA, and I called him up, and he emailed me and said, sure man, I'll be happy to help you on your board.
It takes a real big f***ing man to do that.
Jacob, I mean, we'll see. He's probably thinking it through. Hemasiri is writing his book.
