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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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...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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...are, you know, but I think met, like, 0% neuroticism. Like, they they just don't get get emotionally phased by things that happen, which is a superpower when you're an entrepreneur. But having said that, some of the great entrepreneurs are, in fact,
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...you both need to be and, in a sense, are expected by your investors to have this this kind of driving passion to build the thing that you're building. Right? That it sort of takes a certain degree of irrational belief and irrational devotion to that
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...founders can get emotional when a an investor says, no. Give me that, you know, give me that equity back. Yeah. But but really zooming out, their ask is a completely reasonable one. The question then becomes, what is the best way to assuage their fea
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...a founder pre versus post is I probably have the same level of drive. I think you have to be driven to be a a a founder. But my first business was motivated on doing something that was new and really cool and wanting to make some money from it. Neith
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...you're a founder and your company succeeds is your identity is fused with the company. And so, it's easy to get in a situation where you only feel good if the company's or however the company's how you feel is how the company is doing, and you need t
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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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...founders or or anyone else, do you think that your near death experience has unlocked something that most people never get to experience? Yes. Definitely. It's certainly given me kind of focus and perspective on what's really a big problem. If I look
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...cofounder, Josh. Yesterday was the first time that I recognized that feeling. This isn't the thing that had been bubbling up for months. It was just like, that's weird. I got a message from him today, and I feel resentful.
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...towards my cofounder, Josh. Yesterday was the first time that I recognized that feeling. This isn't the thing that had been bubbling up for months. It was just like, that's weird. I got a message from him today, and I feel resentful. Why? I didn't to
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...it's just so intense. They have to be incredibly patient. And I'm gonna I always start and this this is another is why I'm single.
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...or founders trying to navigate their own compensation, I hear a lot of founders that, you know, are waiting to leave their big cushy tech jobs until they raise their first round or until they hit some, you know, specific milestone. What have you seen
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...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 it.
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...time founders Oh, good. You know, are really good too. Yeah. But we do see that sort of dichotomy. Either it's Mark Pincus on his third start up or Elon on his third or fourth Yep. Or it's somebody right out of college or who just dropped out. Right.
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...of the greatest founders that you've spent time with and backed and partnered with or have low introspection? Yeah.
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...Fund has a spirit. It comes from Luke Nosek, who was one of the original founders of Founders Fund.
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