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“The exact founder traits that made Elon Musk worth betting on early”
...founder who can ship product with velocity and win a design award,
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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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...pretty much, being a VC, because it created so many things. First of all, I think I saw what amazing looks like. I was very lucky to be close to people like Olivier at Datadog or, Dylan at Figma. I I learned to Peter at Adient. I learned to see how t
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to really help them pick a significant pain point they can go after and build an important company. And we've done it multiple times successfully. Mutual friend of ours, Doug Leone says a very similar thing in terms of how he really evaluates people,
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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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...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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...of the 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 on
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...look for founders, we also look for Sequoia, partners, investors, young people. The same set of traits use the word insufferable, use the word he doesn't listen, she doesn't listen, or he's belligerent, she's belligerent. Those that other people may
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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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...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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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, you try not to get into, like, anything about
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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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...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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...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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...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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