ACM

"The founders—especially in their capacity as investors—have had to find ways of working around this challenge. To that end, Levchin takes regular meetings with smaller student organizations at the various colleges he visits, harkening back to his ACM days. Thiel is known for taking sit-downs well outside of his immediate orbit, including the occasional high school student who reaches out with a compelling note. Hoffman forces himself to regularly ask others: “Who is the most eccentric or unorthodox person you know, and could I meet them? They might be crazy—or they might be a genius.” He’s searching, it would seem, for the less than perfectly polished founder who resembles his once less than perfectly polished colleagues, a group that turned a “hot mess” into one of the world’s largest public companies."

"The founders—especially in their capacity as investors—have had to find ways of working around this challenge. To that end, Levchin takes regular meetings with smaller student organizations at the various colleges he visits, harkening back to his ACM days. Thiel is known for taking sit-downs well outside of his immediate orbit, including the occasional high school student who reaches out with a compelling note. Hoffman forces himself to regularly ask others: “Who is the most eccentric or unorthodox person you know, and could I meet them? They might be crazy—or they might be a genius.” He’s searching, it would seem, for the less than perfectly…"