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entrepreneurship
how a bottoms up approach that SurveyMonkey did sort of revolutionized enterprise software. They haven't done the diligence to understand how to sell or have a prototype based upon history, and it's the same pattern of behavior that I see in fundrais
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in the early days, I don't think that grill would be applicable because there's so much uncertainty. You need to navigate much more tactically in the early days and the early years of building a company. The the framework applies better to profession
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...stage founders and this is certainly more true for the first timers, Lenny, than the the veterans because they learn this problem. The first timers are, like, 20 year olds in a bar, and they're being social for the first time in their lives. And anyo
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...they start entrepreneurship in some way early. Do you both agree with that? I think that developing the skill of resourcefulness
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And telling the founders cuts a little bit of the pinky. And you want a founders with ten fingers and ten toes. But there are certain times where the thing is soft, the rails, that it's worth a small piece of the pinky to get back in the right direct
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The idea that the founder who's writing code by themselves doesn't have to advance their skills to learn how to do all those things and that in fact, what the article even implies is learning how to do those other things is a negative, is bananas to
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No. He does that anyway. Don't worry. He already takes something crazy. The the question I have to ask, and I I want to learn I I used to show as a learning mechanism. I always have done. I don't like first time founders, and I want to be learned fro
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And so the founders at Founder Future Fit, they're like obsessed train spotters in a rabbit hole thinking about this stuff all the time. Doctor. Matthew Roark: Do you know what I find really hard is I've learned from you so much over the years, so ma
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...in entrepreneurship is it would be amazing. And, of course, the problem with some of the observation in the world is people spend a lot of time studying greatness. They don't study failure. They study Muhammad Ali, they don't study all the heavyweigh
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The second thing we look for is, what do you know about the future that's nonconsensus and right? And then the third is founder future fit. One of the things that I've learned in looking at these 100 bagger studies is some of these things become clea
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...my early days at that small town in Israel where playing
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...a thing in early stage. And so beginner's mindset, what could we create? What could we learn? I'm wrong all the time. It's what I love about this job. All the time. Right? Even when you see a pattern that holds, like, across 30 companies, all of a su
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You know, I think some of that comes from him being and he's a refugee. He he grew up in Iran, and then when the Tell Khomeini came in, he had to flee to Sweden. Hopefully, that's, correcting now finally after all these years. But, you know, that hav
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And in a country where they have very low unemployment and plenty of jobs available, it's a very interesting, moment in time when people will give up the security of those jobs to take the risk of starting a company, and that's what we do at our fund
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...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 we skew towards,
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I think I would be so different if I hadn't been that index. Index was the best school of life for me. It's something I would advise to any founder, pretty much, being a VC, because it created so many things. First of all, I think I saw what amazing
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to learn the rules is to screw everything up. And then the next time around, you're you're wiser. Do you think that there should be a phase of more learning and more education that a founder should give themselves rather than just, say, dropping out
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