3 Things You Need To Outperform 99% Of Entrepreneurs

**Sam Parr** (0:00)
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**Shaan Puri** (0:27)
Extreme force of will, extreme bias for action, and a questioning of the default speeds. It changes everything.
Yeah, you know I'm on this business entertainment kick where I'm looking for content that is about business, but is made to be entertaining. So it's not just like an informational video or a blog post. And so there's a new show called Fight Ink that I watched that I thought was really good. Did you see it?

**Sam Parr** (1:02)
I saw the commercials for it. How do you get it?

**Shaan Puri** (1:04)
It's on Roku, but I don't have Roku. You just Google like watch Fight Ink and it's Roku just lets you just, it's on their website, but you don't have to sign up.
You just click and you just watch it.
So it's very cool. I mean, they basically follow around Dana behind the scenes and the UFC like kind of the machine behind the show.
And the UFC, just to put this in perspective, they basically, there is no off season. The UFC is 52 weeks a year. Every Saturday has to be an epic show. It's a live event with pay-per-view. It's got fighters who get injured and pull out or get arrested and now they can't fight. And there's all kinds of things that can and will go wrong, but it's like the actual epitome of the show must go on. So I wanted to share with you a couple of my thoughts watching this from a founder's point of view. So the first thing is, as silly as this sounds, I do think that Dana White is on my Mount Rushmore of startup founders. And I know he didn't technically found the UFC, but he basically did. He created the goddamn thing.

**Sam Parr** (2:04)
He's a madman.

**Shaan Puri** (2:05)
He is a workhorse. He's a machine. And I really don't think the UFC happens if there's no Dana White. And this got me thinking, there are some companies that I will call inevitable.
An inevitable company is one whose time has just come.
So, YouTube today is a giant company, but YouTube's time had come. If it wasn't YouTube, if Chad and Steve had not created YouTube, somebody else would have created the equivalent of YouTube. The idea of hosting video online was gonna happen. It was happening. Somebody was gonna win that space. That's an inevitable idea. The momentum of internet speeds going up and being fast enough where you can now upload and download videos was going to a point where video became, and it was an obvious thing. We had Flickr for photos. We were gonna have a version of that for videos.
I would say that Google was an inevitable idea. The more popular the internet got, people already needed search engines and portals. Google happened to be the winner of all the search engines and portals, but there was gonna be a way to search the internet. That was going to happen. So there's inevitable companies. And then there's companies that I honestly don't think if it was not for the force of will of the founder, for the vision, the skill and the determination of the founder that wouldn't would not have happened or would not have happened for like 50 more years. It would have missed a whole generation of people had that person not made that thing happen. My examples that I would put here are Elon's company. So I think Tesla and SpaceX would not have happened and would not have happened at least for another 50 years had he not made those happen. I think it required a level of insanity, self-funding, technical brilliance, determination to keep going even against the odds of failure, all of that, for him to be able to pull those off.
I think the UFC is in that non-inevitable bucket where if the UFC had just died, it was about to go bankrupt before Dana bought it for $2 million, I don't think that something like the UFC necessarily would have happened.

**Sam Parr** (4:05)
Yeah, I mean, I totally agree because it wasn't like a wanted thing. It was one of those products where we didn't know we wanted.
And at first, it was a freak show. Like, I don't know if you remember, one of the more famous guys who first started fighting was this black guy who would use one boxing glove and one free hand. And he fought against like a 300 pound sumo wrestler.