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conviction
“Don't outsource conviction - back yourself when you find exceptional founders”
...look for conviction. Don't borrow conviction. Don't look for consensus. Back yourself. Love it. This episode of TFR is brought to you by adr.org.
3:49 / 4:24
tactical advice3:49 – 4:24
...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
40:57 / 42:26
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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
15:48 / 16:55
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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
52:27 / 53:30
from transcript52:27 – 53:30
...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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from transcript6:09 – 7:08
...me to conviction. Cool. I actually think, and many VCs will disagree with me on this, is the idea matters more than the founder. But if we're just talking about the founder,
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from transcript4:31 – 5:33
...founders to be there too, because the goings will get tough. It will absolutely get tough and we all need to be in it together. Brilliant. So how do those founder insights translate into a broader investment thesis at Daring Ventures? Yeah. Founders
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...my cofounder, Josh, and just having this recognition that we have our Friday forum where we celebrate all of our wins, and I very rarely make an appearance as a person who has an attributable win. Why do you do that cool if you don't mind me asking?
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...The best founders challenge me. They push me, and they're like, no. No. We can do more. And they are just so maniacal in their thinking. I worry that if I'm challenging the founder, are they thinking big enough? Why am I wrong? I think you are wrong
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from transcript6:43 – 7:45
...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
40:13 / 42:13
from transcript40:13 – 42:13
...founder 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, f
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...great founders quite often where they're disagreeable. Because when you think about it, a breakthrough startup is a provocative act. It's a disagreement with the present. And the more of a breakthrough it is, the more disagreeable it is. Quite often,
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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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...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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...and it's a founder issue or it's attraction issue that it just doesn't happen, like, where is the index to allow that conviction to happen? Yeah. So I would say nobody here make a can make an investment decision by himself still to that date. Now it'
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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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...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 you're passionat
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from transcript38:58 – 40:08
...as a founder you have, but there are also unique blind spots that you have as well. And I think that is a very rational thing to look out and see the wasteland of former very successful founders who again, we all made more money than we meet. We like
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