The travel obsession that reveals how VCs spot successful entrepreneurs

and other people act on them, and I've always kinda been the person that acts on my crazy ideas.

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and other people act on them, and I've always kinda been the person that acts on my crazy ideas. And I don't like jumping out of planes, like, that that's a kind of risk taking I don't like to take if it's like a physical body thing. But the experience of going somewhere to do something unusual, different, like so that's part of the international thing. I've been to a 140 countries. I've been I when I lived in Europe, I was obsessed with visiting every European country and including all the the tiny ones. So that's kind of what's in me. And so, yeah, I I think I do see that where when you really get to know entrepreneurs, you know, I find that a lot of them have something that really drives them, some either very, very narrow area of expertise or some hobby or something that really drives them. And it's not just like a thought, but it's it's an action that they take. And and the people that really act on it, you you need to see people that that put ideas into action. And I think that's kinda something that I I recognize in what you're saying. I wonder what I wanna explore a little bit more about what the difference is between

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Ron Levin explains how his personal drive to visit 140+ countries reflects the same action-oriented mindset he looks for in entrepreneurs. He argues that successful founders share a pattern of turning unusual ideas into concrete actions, whether it's extreme travel or narrow expertise areas.

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Offers a unique investor framework for evaluating entrepreneurs based on their propensity to act on unconventional ideas rather than just think about them.

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