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...of advice for a founder who is just deciding to embark on their founder journey? I think the biggest one is just do it. You know? I think if you're passionate like, make sure that what you wanna work on is something you're passionate about. But if yo
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“Two founders ignored my advice, raised billions anyway using my strategy”
founders that came to you that you didn't go ahead with that ended up building something big? Oh, it's so funny you said that. So I had this, like, meeting today, and we were talking about I talked ab
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personal lesson31:38 – 32:15
...the founder understands maybe you have a little experience that compliments
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“Why forcing advisor relationships always backfires as a founder”
...team. Ultimately, everything is on your shoulder as a founder
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...advice. Right? So listen to me. Listen to brilliant people like Shuba. You know? Listen to your business advisers, but don't take don't take everybody's advice. Right? Back to that adage of, yes, 10 angel investors the same question, you'll get 11 di
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...and your cofounder are some of the biggest decisions you make in your life, and you don't just wanna give anyone that distinction or equity. Right? So the best advice I can offer to you is that you have a very mission driven business, and Kickstarter
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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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...a founder what to do. I do have feedback and hopefully insightful feedback about my kind of spidey sense of what's working and what's not. Almost like a cartoonish mirror at a haunted house. Try to exaggerate the positives and exaggerate intentionall
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...the founder. Keith, you must have invested in people where they're not as good as you think they are, and they don't live up to expectation. And, actually, they don't listen to you for whatever reason. What do you do then? Venture is a lot like baseb
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...to be a founder? Is there any advice there that you could share? I don't know what made me wanna be a founder. I I just sort of showed up that way. So, and and so there's probably some, like, chemical imbalance of some form that causes people to do i
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...founder holds more cards than they than they think they do in that moment. Now when I asked you this question, you said, what you actually would have done is advise them to do a whole lot of things differently months earlier so they didn't find thems
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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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“Don't outsource conviction - back yourself when you find exceptional founders”
more likely than not, this person is going to surprise you on the upside. And at that point, it is so hard to anyway find these people. They don't exist. Literally, they don't exist. It's so hard to f
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...advice on anything. But that at the end of the day, when you run the company, you see more than them, and you probably have more insight into what is right for for the company.
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...market fit and that unfair advantage extremely heavily. We think that that is the number one decider of success, especially at the precede stage. When everybody can build something, having that speed to conviction and knowing what to build, faster th
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...a a founder who has not done this before, not super familiar, going out for their first outside round should keep in mind. What would that be? So the one thing I haven't mentioned yet, and maybe I should have started with this, is, listen to everybod
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...A lot of first time founders are relatively young. And so you should expect that they have a lot of gaps. Right? That they don't understand their history. History is generally a a hobby of older people. Right? When they start to realize its importanc
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