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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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...investors are more used to that sort of conversation. Founders aren't. Their their ego is too involved. But in any case, this is a business partnership. To a point you made earlier,
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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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...is founder market fit. I think there's a sort of mistaken concept that is platonic ideal of an entrepreneur. And I think maybe there's two very basic things. There's energy and there's sort of cognitive ability. But after that, you're really looking
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...founders. The first is a really great storyteller. The second thing I look for is mission. I believe that a mission is magnetic. Like Max said, you can have people in working on the weekend. There was a founder on the pitch that I invested in, Dhaval
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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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unpacking founder market fit, before we invest in a founder. And, you know, some believe this could distill down to industry expertise. And and I think there's certainly you know, that's certainly a component. But I also look for sort of this element
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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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...that investors are super excited to have the conversation of how can I make the founder more settled? Because if the founder is unsettled and anxious about money and terrified about fucking it up, the founder themselves is actually going to start mak
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...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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...future fit. One of the things that I've learned in looking at these 100 bagger studies is some of these things become clearer later, and you have to figure out what's the real signal at the time you have to decide. And so you wanna get a time capsule
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...for is founder market fit. I think there's a sort of mistaken concept that is platonic ideal of an entrepreneur. And I think maybe there's two very basic things. There's energy and there's sort of cognitive ability. But after that, you're really look
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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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...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 things literally, bu
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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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