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...love young founders, and there's never been a better time to be a young founder. So what we what we do is we find people, individuals, usually somewhere between the ages of 18 and, about 26. And the reason we don't ask about their ideas is that, hone
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Or YC founders? Why have they been so successful compared to normal distributions? It's because they invest their time early in their careers and doing things that are challenging and they stress themselves. They challenge themselves through the hype
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...have to crack the problem that they're tackling. And do you find, especially with entrepreneurs that are very early in their journey, that there's a piece of advice or a couple piece of advice that you're often giving them? I think it's both to be to
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...You know, connecting together these really interesting entrepreneurial founder types and helping them build that co founding team. You think, you know, that's Well, and what I find interesting is that if if you come to me and say you're one I think y
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...biggest advice to founders on secondaries? There's different thoughts on whether it's right, how much is right, what advice is good for different stages. How do you think about it, and how does having a little bit change your mindset? I think the bes
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...Founders Fund named Trey. We were just at his fortieth birthday party. One thing that was mentioned was that he didn't get into Georgetown the first time, and he literally went and, like, set up a tent in front of the admissions office and was like,
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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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...of founders here is, I think one of the things that we've seen a lot is cash flow management. It's like easy to run out of money. Yes. I mean, I think, keeping a focus on keeping the burn low, before they find product market fit, I think, is a is a k
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...founder CEO with all of that history and that context. So for me, what that means is I have a strong spike in strategy. I think I've built a really successful business because I've made the right bets, and my intuition is very good. That means for me
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...pretty much, being a VC, because it created so many things. First of all, I think I saw what amazing looks like. I was very lucky to be close to people like Olivier at Datadog or, Dylan at Figma. I I learned to Peter at Adient. I learned to see how t
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...founder who's built a successful company, will remember that they did work seven days a week. Right? So so it does happen. It I don't know of any founder personally. None of the ones that I've backed, and certainly not me personally, who have not bee
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...50 founders in the room representing 30 companies here. Most of them are first time founders. When we meet with these companies, we like to assess what they need help with, number one. Number two is almost, well, top three. How do I raise money? How
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...think founders need to know which business they're building. And so if you're thinking of building, like, a local,
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