Dyslexic entrepreneurs and childhood trauma survivors outperform average founders statistically
“But when we were angel investing, if you look simply at a pool, for example, there's very successful people who are dyslexic, and there's very successful people who aren't dyslexic.”
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Yeah. And some of it, you're allowed to look for and some of it, you can't. But when we were angel investing, if you look simply at a pool, for example, there's very successful people who are dyslexic, and there's very successful people who aren't dyslexic. But on average, you take a 100 people and you're looking at entrepreneurs running businesses, there's more successful people per 100 who are dyslexic. The same with things like childhood trauma. You know, it's a terrible thing, but, actually, there's more successful people. If you took a 100 people who had childhood trauma and a 100 people who haven't, the 100 had are more likely to be successful at entrepreneurship. The same as immigrants are more likely to be successful.
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Adam Norris shares controversial insights from his angel investing experience about which founder characteristics statistically correlate with entrepreneurial success. He argues that dyslexia, childhood trauma, and immigrant backgrounds create higher success rates among entrepreneurs, despite these being challenging life experiences.
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This is a provocative data-driven perspective that challenges conventional thinking about what makes successful entrepreneurs.
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