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...founder, it requires so much mental flexibility. And it's relatively easy to test even during or, like, to sense if you have spoken with enough people during a conversation.
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...of founder mode, which I know you've spent some time on on this podcast, is your job is to build a company that would make a decision the way the founder would when they're not in the room. Right? That is the work of building a company around a found
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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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...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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...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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...psychology is, and then how do you make sure you're not, like, resenting or hating your company or yourself and view. I think that the hardest thing for a founder like, challenge is not optional. You're gonna be challenged, but the suffering is optio
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...tell 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 intenti
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...founder is gonna have their own sort of things that are easy, things that are harder.
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...is really, really, really smart and right almost all of the time. Right. As we talk to people, here are the traits that we heard over and over again. Mark is a genius, a really good listener, a fast learner. He goes from knowing zero to mastery in mo
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...almost no founder has, it can be, like, highly psychologically challenging. And you see people react to it in two very dangerous ways. One is they overly defer. So, okay, I hired a lot of smart people. I'm gonna be very open to their input on all the
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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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...stage founders and this is certainly more true for the first timers, Lenny, than the the veterans because they learn this problem. The first timers are, like, 20 year olds in a bar, and they're being social for the first time in their lives. And anyo
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...founders, interviewing potential hires, or others, you find it most interesting and useful? All of the above. The founder one is fascinating because you actually end up going down different lines and helping them depending on whether they answer the
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...founder makes. So that would be a huge one. Let me spend a little more time on this because this is so good. So the all this advice on culture,
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...a founder in, that had big impacts on my success and my ability to take my startup forward. And first of all, the list is very long, and it's getting updated. And, like, you have all these new phenomena. And you still have the core. Right? So you had
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...word founder means to you? That's a good question. I don't know if I ever thought about it. The way so my definition for entrepreneur has always been, like, somebody has ideas and does them. And I think when I the reason I'm interested, we we have th
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...the CEO. The thing about founder CEOs is that there's definitely not what I would consider, like, a canonical one. So if you look at Mark Zuckerberg and Ali Goetzee and Elon Musk, they're all, like, extremely different types of people. So, you know,
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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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...founders I know wouldn't survive as humans if they were not creating this company. And for them, it's just a way to process reality. They do it not because it's interesting or they want to make money. They just wouldn't survive otherwise, right? And
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