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...a founder who is building something that, like, anybody could build? Right. Yeah. No. It's just right? You and the question is why don't we feel comfortable investing in a founder when there is not a clear and obvious personal motivation that's drivi
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...founder story, though. Like, you know, maybe you just, were at HBS and just formulated a business plan on a whiteboard. That's not a great story to tell. So I offered some other storytelling plots or tropes, that you could use as well. I think storie
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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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...is this strong narrative behind why a 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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...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 are naturally good at and a lot of founders don't pay a second of attention to. I mean, it's fundamental to everything that we do. I teach storytelling classes to every team member, no matter what role they're in. We go into the first princi
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...either founder story or company story? Well, always in my opinion is something personal, something you can connect to some I mean, you just asked me about, you know, how did I get involved with, Kimbell? I started out by grabbing your attention. Why?
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...to be a founder. I didn't know I wanted to be a CEO, so I sort of backed into being a CEO.
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...is not story. Narrative is like a collection of stories that you could think of as, like, each one is a room in a house, and the house is the narrative. And the narrative is, okay, I know how to make sense of this very complex subject or opportunity
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...founders companies and then brought in management
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...founders could be having great careers at regular tech companies. They choose not to do this. Usually, there's a reason, and that's what we go deep into. And that conversation with all the cofounders effectively helps us figure out the conviction for
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...founder. So can you guess what they are? Relentlessness. One. Aggression, ambition, persevering, insight. So they were actually quite different. First of all, being very good at psychology, understanding people in and out, understanding the human bet
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...who can really go all the way from, like, seed to post IPO and in his case, running multiple companies, you know, if you can be there for that ride, that's great. But I think recognizing that you also you also have so many amazing stories that would
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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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...can immunize themselves from falling prey to that kind of Well, I think it's kinda understandable why those things exist in the ecosystem. In a world with very little data, anecdote is going to sort of reign supreme. And if you're a lawyer or you're
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...founders? I'm just trying to understand, because it feels like you're founding the company. I don't babysit founders.
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