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...motivations I had 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 mo
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...strong motivation or driver why the founder is doing the business. This is really important for founders to understand
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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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...in a founder when there is not a clear and obvious personal motivation that's driving them to pursue what for many people, it's, like, a very risky and at times very demoralizing, very lonely, very difficult road. Right.
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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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...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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...a founder and train them on management than you are to start with a manager and try to train them on being a founder, creating new things. Take whatever amazing new thing you have and just put it in a room with like normal people and let them try to
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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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...of motivations I had 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
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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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...founder is starting their company. You know, I think a compelling founding story can really help build, you know, an emotional connection with users, with customers, and with investors.
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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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...know, strong motivation or driver why the founder is doing the business. This is really important for founders to understand that our number one fear, our nightmare as, investors is not that the company runs out of money or they have to pivot, it's t
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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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...of founders who've sort of set the stage well for those early employees? You may not get paid market right today, but in the end, this could be great for you. I think fundamentally, what you're looking for when you're hiring the first few people is m
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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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...starts from a place of, I have to get to 3,000,000 or we're dead, you're already dead. As opposed to what do I really believe I can do to get there, changing top of the funnel, changing conversion rates along the way, changing deal size or deal lengt
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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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...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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...founder is being more like a Navy Seal, going all in and, like, really applying myself into, like, the highest leverage activities. I'm gonna go there on something, but why not? Founders' funds can also it's like, don't fire the founder. Keith, you m
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