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...definition of founder mode, but certainly that evolution I I mean, that way I think about it is, like, it is very diff like, one of the hardest things when you're running a company is that you're hiring all these execs who the only thing you know is,
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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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...enabled a founder to evolve into becoming a CEO. And there were many parts to that, but a lot of it comes down to, you know, what makes you feel like a CEO? What gives you the confidence that you can actually run a company when you don't know how to?
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...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, faster th
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...mindset in terms of people who run companies. And if you go back twenty or thirty years, the sort of accepted conventional wisdom was that founders shouldn't run their own companies. Right? And specifically that, you know, a founder can get a company
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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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...mentality. There's a stewardship, a shepherding mentality. If the firm started with that architecture, the generational transitions tend to be a lot more seamless and stable compared to firms that are founder centric. There is a way to measure founde
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...on how founder centric the firm is. If your name is on the door, it's hard. If your firm started as a spinout from a big financial institution, which is actually quite common in Europe. It's less common in The US. But in a spinout, there's less of a
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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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...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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...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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...market fit, team market fit is essential. When it is your personal story, which it often is for founders, it's, it's another level of storytelling. And it doesn't mean that the founder is the best person to execute it. I actually think great founders
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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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...A lot of first time founders are relatively young. And so you should expect that they have a lot of gaps. Right? That they don't understand their history. History is generally a a hobby of older people. Right? When they start to realize its importanc
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...founders spiking exceptionally on some of these and maybe less on on some others. For them, it's the ability to put a fantastic team together and and then show them the way as opposed to getting high marks on on all of these dimensions. Do you know o
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...the CEO. The thing about founder CEOs is that there's definitely not what I would consider, like, a canonical one. So if you look at Mark Zuckerberg and Ali Goetzee and Elon Musk, they're all, like, extremely different types of people. So, you know,
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...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
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