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...and Nakul Mandan for some amazing questions today, a real team effort on the schedule. But before we move into the episode today, Harvard Management Company is constantly seeking out the next generation of great investors and entrepreneurs. HMC has m
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Bro, how many times have you been on the pod now? Is this number four for you? Three or four? No. This is my, fifth time. Oh, wait. Sorry. I'm not Rokona. Sorry. Over to Rokona. Sorry. We all look the same. You're Sri Lankan. He's Indian. I know the
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“I have a negative reaction to founders who have only ever seen, like, success or positivity... you are seeing founders coming from very successful unicorns or decacorns”
because it's it was very easy when, you know, I met we went through these very highs and lows that pre seed being a super high and then this tough period of pivoting and the series a being a super har
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Bold/Contrarian34:14 – 34:42
“From saying no to helicopters to demanding first-class flights to CBS”
And they were like, what are you doing on TV? And I said, oh, I don't even know what I'm doing. And Tom had seen what I had done, and he goes, you have to meet my agent. I went to meet his agent. She'
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founder story4:19 – 4:58
We wanna be accessible and available, so reach out any way possible. We'd love to hear from you. He's the legend. John Callahan, the firm is true. Thank you so much for doing this. This is like a bucket list item for me, so I appreciate it. Super fun
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Okay. I don't know if I should say this one. Go for it. Okay. I'll do it. I'll do it. Go for it. Okay. Sacks is the only Jewish guy who built an app to remind his friends to pay him back. Alright. That's my time, everybody. Thank you. Jason, everybod
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“Five sales ever: The brutal reality most founders won't admit”
They were like, what the are you talking about? Alright. What are you talking about? I've got some website, you know, I've got Magento or Shopify website, and I'm getting, like, five sales. Okay. Five
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founder story3:35 – 3:53
yeah, adjust as well as a New Yorker because as a New Yorker, if somebody's naked, that's a sign that if there's about to be some crazy person in a fight and police and chaos. And here, it means, like, high fives and write ons. Mhmm. But, you know, g
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you know, tell me about yourself. Tell me about this stuff in the past. If you're talking about your past, you're on the back foot and you're losing that conversation. You're the one revealing information. You're not getting anything. We instead wann
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Okay. He is Ben Orthlieb, and the firm is Blue Moon. Ben, it's been a pleasure getting to know you and just, you know, very excited for all your success and growth of the firm and everything you're doing to be on the cutting edge of VC. You know, we
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so then the pandemic happens, and we're like, well, sorry. Where are you going just dropping these little bread crumbs? We gotta pick them up on them. Yeah. At some point, we gotta pick these up. Anyway, at some point, I'll write a biography. Anyway,
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If you already had it, the deal's already signed. So put yourself in the position that you're already doing the job. That's why in interview process, if you treat it like you're consulting, you're doing a value exchange and you're increasing your val
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There's so much things that need to be built to improve the lives of other human beings. Why we all focus on the same market? Right? So you do not worry about the future of human labor and productivity? No. Let's go travel. Let's go feed. Let's go fa
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“The hardest conversations VCs have to have with founders”
But I think what, as a founder, you have to remember is that, you you know, your investor is on your team. Like, we don't want the company to run out of money. And making sure that, you know, you're m
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tactical advice3:10 – 3:46
So let me do You were out at dinner last night. Hold on. Let me just do proper introductions to the audience who understands who Alan Keating is. We'll get to it. Alan Keating. Just type that into, YouTube. Watch a bunch of Alan Keating clips. Alan,
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