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“Why this founder chose VC over bootstrapping for his second startup”
down the VC route, or why didn't you choose to bootstrap? And I'll just repeat the question for the audio. So, Aidan, why did you go down the VC route for your second business? I think it's a great q
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founder story36:29 – 37:05
“From failed founder to VC partner: why failure accelerated her venture career”
...be a founder and launch a company. And that, I think, expedited my entry into venture capital because I obviously built a company and failed at it. It wasn't an amazing outcome. But what I'd really le
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personal lesson1:44 – 2:23
“Small teams making $10M annually might beat most VC-backed founders”
...backed founders, right, who are illiquid, who are stuck. And, whether whether they can or can't raise, but it's just tough and you have total flexibility and control. So then are there new capital str
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contrarian take7:32 – 8:02
...us as founders, why they will be great for us, why you should take their capital, I start to have this realization, oh, wow. This is actually how they're talking about themselves. This is why they should take their money from these big logos and all
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...thing a founder can look for in their VC is a lazy VC. Because truth be told, VCs don't add value and the best founders build the companies themselves. So if you pick anything, pick a lazy VC. Do you agree? Well, I think that lazy is probably in a di
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...I would name. Most memorable first founder meeting?
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...listening? Founders usually underestimate the leverage they have on their cap table. They negotiate things for very obscure situations, etcetera. Experienced founders know that it's their company. They will have a lot of flexibility around managing t
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Big fan of the show. Yeah. So happy to have you here. So you founded Day One Ventures in 2018. You've already grown from, what was it, 11,000,000 then to 450,000,000. It's a bit bigger than this. We're not supposed to pronounce it. Our lawyers wouldn
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Yes. I do. I've seen that time and again. Also, with my personal investments, if you have a Sequoia Capital or an index or a Spark Capital on your cap table, the reality is that your next round will be so much easier. Would you say they should take t
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Ziyi Yang, CEO of video game studio Serenity Forge, said Gusto was the first step in turning their basement project into a real company. It helped them scale globally, saving him thirty hours a month and letting him focus on building great games inst
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“First Round Capital founder challenges the golden rule of VC investing”
I'll push back a little bit on pattern matching. I think that by definition, we're trying to find raw and fragile and contrarian ideas. And the challenge with pattern matching is that you begin to gen
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contrarian take11:53 – 12:12
...a founder can look for in their VC is a lazy VC. Because truth be told, VCs don't add value and the best founders build the companies themselves.
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for about a year. I didn't see a path, honestly. It was a much smaller industry, and I wanted to be an entrepreneur. And I needed to be an entrepreneur, I thought, to be a credible investor. So I left and started a company. They funded me along with
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And we thought, you know, it's so hard to build a company. Somebody ought to be able to do something better than that. And I said to Mark, I was like, we could start a firm, and we could call it Benmark, you know, which was a pun on benchmark. I don'
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...founders don't need you? Fundamentally, I agree with this. But I think, you know, we have the ability to be very deeply involved if you need us and get out of the way rest of the time. On the early stage being art, not a science, what worries me is,
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...to be a founder? So it's a good question. So first of all, I would say I knew that at some point in my life, I wanted to create my own company. And that was way before being a VC. That was really when I was even like, you know, a very young kid. I ha
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...not who had a smashing success the first time, but who had a modest success the first. Because, yeah, when you had that modest success, you you still got a little fire. Yeah. You sold too early, little chippy, something still to prove, but you got th
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...of Unicorns with their comms needs. And it started by when I had my second company, which was or first company, which was social media agencies that I started at the age of 18 that became over 100 people in a year, on Twitter, I met Serge Bao, who wa
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