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“First-time founder's biggest lesson: trust your intuition about people”
...founder yeah. You you can maybe in the interest of progressing things and getting things done
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...lessons that founders can take from what's been happening in the last few weeks with SVB. But I just wanna start. Tell us a little bit about yourself and bluntly why you're so well placed to advise early stage founders on the lessons that they can ta
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...the founder understands maybe you have a little experience that compliments
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...founder to better your prospects? One of the challenges of being a founder is you don't know what you don't know. Right? So the good founders are the people that kind of have a core skill set and then surround themselves with the right employees and
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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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...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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...the founder without telling the founder, and once in a while you have to tell because maybe you don't have the time to show, but you better do that once a year. It's very rare. That's what you do. Those are the actions that you take. And you wanna co
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...founder, they tend to have more empathy for how people behave. Whereas if you take the classic enterprise founder, they tend to be more national because in some ways you can just go and ask your customers what features do you want and go build them.
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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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...a founder that felt perhaps where that article was trying to go is that unlike the professional mercenary CEO that gets dropped in, the founder knows everything about what built this company, and they can drop in at the most granular level and play a
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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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...a founder should give themselves rather than just, say, dropping out of college as as the cliche goes and just starting something? Because by definition, they're gonna have so many blind spots if they do it that way. You know, I'm pretty long in the
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...founders showed up and said that Asaf, did you think meeting with investors is important? Or something along those lines. Do you think founders should always be raising? No. FOMO is your biggest friend as founder. I'm like, yeah. You know, it's impor
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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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...a founder is a state of being. It's an attitude. It's courage. It's instinct. It's a capacity to push through despite all sorts of evidence suggesting you're wasting your time. To be a CEO is a craft. The more founders who can accept that those are t
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