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...fund partners about an investment that we're looking at, and I asked him a question which was like, what attributes do you think matter in the next investor for this business? Because obviously, we all want it to succeed.
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...cofounder. And we know that you can get these absolutely magical pairs that can build and create things that neither neither of those individuals could have done alone. So, yeah, we would, we're very happy to to help you properly evaluate your your c
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...founders want your help? I remember Jason Lemkin settled the show. No, no, founders just want you to give them money and start off. It's great to have founders who don't need you. They come to you for advice every now and again. They know what they'r
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...now, right, building this venture firm with this earliest pre accelerator founding university and accelerator launch accelerator, which is like, you know, YC or Techstars. What we learned was, we don't want to burden the founders. We want to be wildl
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or founders that are referring other founders that they have worked with before. Or, you know, the, the third way may be through investors that we know and, have worked with in the past, who we want to co invest with, who are, you know, sending inter
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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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...are founder centric. There is a way to measure founder centrality mathematically. You basically have to scrape tons of LinkedIn data. We, a long time ago, supported some really cool academic research on using network dominance to predict venture fund
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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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...Founders Fund. Ben, you already alluded to this, but, like, Founders Fund was such a radical idea when Peter started it. The idea being baked into the name that they will always side with founders and never push a founder out of a company. I was shoc
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...founder fridays.tech. Founder fridays.tech. It's just founders helping founders in these little pods. We do these pods for companies that we have, that we've already invested in or that are in Founder University, but we decided to let the world try t
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...founder that dictates what the relationship looks like post investment. There are some founders that we are checking in with multiple times a month, and then there are others that may lean on us or, you know, meet with us once a quarter for more of a
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...the founders? I'm just trying to understand, because it feels like you're founding the company. I don't babysit founders. I'm not in the meetings, but we do follow-up on each conversation. We have a system where we rate those meetings together with t
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...like cofounder dating, cofounding match matching process. Companies are now worth $15,000,000,000. You know, our companies are funded by the best VCs in the world, whether it be, Benchmark or Sequoia or Andreessen Horowitz or, Index Ventures. Reid Ho
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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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...usually tell us at the end of the meeting or in an email shortly thereafter, like, let us know. We'd love to have you in. To to this point, right, we for example, we we're investors in. Is the ex Clearco company founders, some of them. They raised bi
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...founder is starting their company. You know, I think a compelling founding story can really help build, you know, an emotional connection with users, with customers, and with investors.
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...founder wants to do. So it goes from, like, oversight to, like, catalyzing and to amplifying the the founder's ambition. Really? If you like, I I agree with you, but, like, officially, the job of a board member is to, you know, have a fiduciary duty
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“Can founders take $100K+ off the table at Series A without revenue?”
...founders take money off the table on a really good series a even without any revenue but just having identified product market fit? Maybe $102,100,000?
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tactical advice34:28 – 34:45
“Even the strongest founders need concentrated help at critical inflection points”
...founders, they will need help at some inflection point because there are unpredictable things happening, and they would need the input. So even if I think of our stronger founders, they they still nee
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...the founder has a purpose with this business? And in a way, whether they're gonna be the CEO to lead that business towards the purpose for like a certain phase, and then at some point they'll take a different role, within that business, but they'll h
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