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...a real problem. Cofounder dating is real. Treat it like you're gonna marry this person because you almost are in terms of how impactful that relationship is on the rest of your life. I think another is not setting super clear expectations early aroun
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...cofounder relationship is you need to have complementarity and overlap on some things. So like for the important kind of existential questions, the company, like, what do we want to achieve? How do we want to achieve it? What kind of culture do we wa
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...both a founder and a VC perspective is the gem we all dream of. Basically, one and a half rounds led by you guys and both owning 20%. Harder to do today. Right? Harder to do today. And that was about all the company needed. I know it had a slightly r
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...selection, having the great relationship you do with Michelle? This is an incredibly important topic. We're at a point now where other founders come and ask us for advice all the time. And one of the most common pieces of advice that we get asked is
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...cofounders because we'd had lockers next to each other in primary school. We were three white guys. We were all basically the same height. We all basically looked the same. We'd all grown up within a few blocks of each other. We were great, great fri
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...founders. I totally agree with you, by the way, in terms of bringing in great people and working with you. But founders are idolized today and go the distance. You need to be CEO, David, until the company is, you know, a thousand years old. When is t
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...founders when you met them the early days of the traits they had that really got you convinced to go on a journey with them? No. I found that there is no factory of founders, and they are coming in so many different shapes. I will say maybe one thing
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...CEO, and I watch my back every day because I knew they could fire me and would. Whereas some founders just act like and sometimes by contractual terms they are, but they act unfireable, and I think it's not good. None of us should feel like we're inv
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...founders? I'm just trying to understand, because it feels like you're founding the company. I don't babysit founders.
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...founders. But he told me, no, everything. You know, raise money together, do be co CEOs. I told him, okay. And, we would meet investors. And, it was weird because I would sometimes talk about the business and they would talk about technology. And the
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...cofounders still. Many of the cofounders, like, you know, you said data warehousing was a big push for us. My cofounder, Reynold, was really the one that kind of pushed this. Yeah. Like the well, the the contribution level from a large number of cofo
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...founders. I totally agree with you, by the way, in terms of bringing in great people and working with you. But founders are idolized today and go the distance. You need to be CEO, David, until the company is, you know, a thousand years old. When is t
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still to that date. Now it's not required the nine partners to now have a consent because what we just talked about. But there is always a deal team, at least three partners that needs to pound on the table in order to make that investments. And ther
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...example, CEO founders among large caps, you know, you could get biased by the mega cap companies. So for example, Infinia,
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to really help them pick a significant pain point they can go after and build an important company. And we've done it multiple times successfully. Mutual friend of ours, Doug Leone says a very similar thing in terms of how he really evaluates people,
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...founders out there having to do things that they would never want to do. And I have seen some founders that you would not even think of that actually were in very, very difficult situation because of the bot. The problem is that when you start having
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to make for a an enduring partnership? Well, it helps if you like one another and enjoy working together. We do. Yeah. But I don't use any one formula. A lot of partnerships that work well for a long time happen because one's good at one thing and on
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