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...Founder University in Japan, Mercury, Goodwin, Every, Backblaze, PayPal, Render. These are all just great companies that'll help me, you know, rent spaces like this, get the AV, and maybe put out a little coffee. We we try to keep it gritty. It's not
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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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...And then people that were, like, further out, like, actually, they still knew all the micro stuff and, like, where they had feelings about it, but they're almost, like, philosophical in nature, like philosophers and just, like, very broad intellectua
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...background of the founder commensurate to what we believe successful founders in this space will have? Yeah. So, like, I I look at it like almost every great start up is pursuing a future that's meant to be. And there is usually one team that's ideal
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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 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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...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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...to founders. I wanna go back to starting the firm, though. This is interesting. What was occurring in your life either at that time or before that that you had this observation that this had to be done? Oh, so so see, I've you know, we've got all the
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...type who, you know, basically built and run something to Okay. Hold on. Henry Ford. Hold on. I love that you went here because you don't remember this, but we had dinner in Miami with Jared Kushner, like, a year ago or something, and me and you would
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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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...to be a founder. I didn't know I wanted to be a CEO, so I sort of backed into being a CEO.
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...the founder of the building and physical industry tend to be slightly older. So in a lot of case, it would not be kids out of YC, although I know we are seeing more and more great stuff coming out of those places, but that's just historically. But, l
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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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...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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...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 many thin
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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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...you joined Founders Fund, what did you see in Peter and in them, and what do you think they saw in you? Well, I dropped out of high school. I did not go to university, and so I always like to joke that I went to Peter Thiel University. And it was a d
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...so a founder, it could have been Alex Cobb. It could have been Stefan Cohen. Earlier on, it might have been somebody like Joe Lansdale, but it was always, like, one of these people. And the interviews were pretty strange. So, you know, with with Stef
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