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loneliness
...to have a cofounder, but even outside of that, there's just a deep loneliness with putting it all on the line, risking everything, knowing that the chances of success are low. But if you do succeed, the gains are huge, and you have your heart in it.
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...of a cofounder, so maybe there's the death of a vision or a death of a dream that we're excited about. And on one hand, maybe I was the CEO's confidant. And so it's a loss of a friend. It's worrying about their mental health. Right? I mean, the reali
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...so many founders go back and start another company and another company. And you and you don't have to, but there's a but there's a reason that people do that because they're you know, it's just a lot of, rewarding aspects of it. You know, building gr
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...makes founder vesting so important. And, again, venture is not the only way to build a business. But if you're gonna take venture money and 40% of your company is already gone because the cofounder left in year two, it's gonna be really almost imposs
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...founder mode flip is, like, when you're like, hey. This is not the company I wanna be running. Things need to be like that. I need to be more involved. I need to stop making excuses. Like, I you know, I need and and it's, like, basically, I also don'
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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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...founders, you spend you're in a in a semi in a in a minor crisis every every month or every quarter, or you need to just keep on pushing. If you if you if you find founders where you feel that you need to push them instead of them pushing you, then t
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...a founder, I was less successful. It's the same thing. Why did you know that? The weird thing about venture is you gotta pick one of two types of partners. You can either pick someone that's as established as you, in which case the timing has to be r
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...three, founders, like, people tend to be happier in in good times and more challenging times. Astacio, same question over to you. Any change in how Felicis approaches this, or is two to three still the, the place you wanna write the most checks?
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...founder? Because here's the thing. Weirdly, once you get to the end, there's almost always one founder. Right? We don't talk about founding. We talk about CEOs that are we only talk about one person for these major successes even if they had you know
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...and how should investors who are backing cofounders be thinking about that relationship management to minimize the chance that they're in that 65% cohort? I was beginning to be called in into these situations. But like couples therapy, you often kind
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...founders sometimes bluff but sometimes we do and sometimes we take it home. It's really hard to get excited that sitting at the table and know, playing about a $100, like, even if it's more and so I think our lives become so different. What do you ta
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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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“Why successful founders feel trapped between only two career paths”
...hard for founders to say, hey, I want to work for someone again. I want to be caught by the entrepreneurial bug. I and I can certainly relate relate to that.
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...when they're not actively day to day working on the business is going to raise eyebrows amongst the investor community. Now maybe you don't want investment, so that's a different thing. But, titles. Titles are things that can feel easy to give away a
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