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“Two founders ignored my advice, raised billions anyway using my strategy”
...strategy b. But in both cases, the founders told me, we'll never do strategy b. We're only doing strategy a. And I was like, well, fine. It's not gonna work. K? In both deals, they went and raised mon
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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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...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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...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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Most founders have great investment talent, and they leave a big organization to start a business, which is a very different thing than being a great investor. Some founders are excellent at both. Some of them are excellent one, not the other. But th
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...founder CEO with all of that history and that context. So for me, what that means is I have a strong spike in strategy. I think I've built a really successful business because I've made the right bets, and my intuition is very good. That means for me
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...founder is gonna have their own sort of things that are easy, things that are harder.
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...your strategy, in one way or another, I have seen the best founders out there having to do things that they would never want to do. And I have seen some founders that you would not even think of that actually were in very, very difficult situation be
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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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...founders spiking exceptionally on some of these and maybe less on on some others. For them, it's the ability to put a fantastic team together and and then show them the way as opposed to getting high marks on on all of these dimensions. Do you know o
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...the founder has a purpose with this business? And in a way, whether they're gonna be the CEO to lead that business towards the purpose for like a certain phase, and then at some point they'll take a different role, within that business, but they'll h
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...ask that founder, you know your market, you know your investors, you know the next set of investors, we've done some intel. What has to be true to unlock the next fundraise? And though that's a qualitative and quantitative answer, but we write it dow
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...some founders get tripped up. They think, oh, I'm gonna do this and I'll be less credible. No. You can sequence it as you're saying. When we win this war and we we get the beach, then we'll go to the you know, a little bit further in there. We'll sec
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...Fund, which I think is one of the best performing funds, a huge part of their success is basically doubling down on the companies that matter. The unsung hero founder fund is a guy called Napoleon Ta, who leads a growth practice. And Napoleon basical
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...generation, the more the legacy owners care about the name on the door, the Stanley name, or the historical name that their mother or father, grandmother or grandfather, right? Whereas if you're talking to a founder themselves, or an entrepreneur tha
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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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...founder effect in meetings. You're just so full of golden nuggets. There's just like a random tangent that I think could be really transformative for a lot of teams. So the advice here is just when you're trying to ideate and brainstorm, don't go in
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...around the founder, and I can go in lot of depth around it. So our first, like, employee after me was our talent partner alongside MZ, my investment partner. And half of our team today is recruiters. So we focus on two jobs at Audacious. Invest in fo
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...cofounder. And we know that you can get these absolutely magical pairs that can build and create things that neither neither of those individuals could have done alone. So, yeah, we would, we're very happy to to help you properly evaluate your your c
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...founder holds more cards than they than they think they do in that moment. Now when I asked you this question, you said, what you actually would have done is advise them to do a whole lot of things differently months earlier so they didn't find thems
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