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One of the things that we have found in the data is that there is more stability in performance or durability in a firm's path along the leveling framework depending on how founder centric the firm is. If your name is on the door, it's hard. If your
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...the founding name that we should back. And this is something that we did not realize early on. We are partners, but at the end of the day, it's the founders, who are on the driving seat. And they should be asking us and they should be pushing us on o
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First of all, he was living in the future with those customers. And when you live in the future with those customers and you're intrinsically motivated by that future, you're more likely to understand what you should build. Number one, number two, yo
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the the investors who back us is that we are putting our dollars behind founders who are never gonna quit. When you invest in a VC fund, this is a long term relationship. And it's our responsibility to our LPs and also to our founders to be in it fro
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(zero 50 three:thirty seven): Yeah. We weight the founder's founder 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,
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build this. We've built a firm to support them for their entire journey. And what that means is we have capital for the whole journey. We have, you know, large core funds, then we have select funds, and select funds can keep investing in companies. A
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the discussions that we've had. And so I believe that our thesis around investing is the combination of the three of us, but my spirit is definitely in there. Founders Fund has a spirit. It comes from Luke Nosek, who was one of the original 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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being built over time by confirmation and by looking at patterns. We're trying to find when we have discussions. And as you know, sometimes processes do not last very long, so they last a few weeks, so you cannot have too many data points. But we in
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...founding the firm? Like, you both Ben and I spent about a year and a half planning the firm, and part part of it was he was in we call it industrial servitude. He was working for Hewlett Packard after we sold our company to HP. So he he was, he was r
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Although we know that's this the case, we are trying not to compromise on the people. And we are good as our CEOs, full stop. They're our product. In our AGMs every year, there is 10 CEOs. And I will always LPs will come to me and say, listen. We are
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a really meaningful relationship for the founder from the and from the company from the very beginning. Yep. And a founder should realize that that is, like, you know, of course, you get into the the anxiety and the stress of, am I gonna get funded?
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this notion of you need a foundation for your project, it's a bit more under the radar for people. I think it's a bit harder for people to immediately see like, oh, we need this. We see the people who react the strongest to this and have the stronges
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the portfolio construction, the way you use the technology and the organizational design. These four things take different types of shapes. So, for example, I can tell you in the early stage the type of problem we're trying to solve, my biggest, if y
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on all of these things. So what has occurred in the past and then maybe hypotheticals about how they might want to or theorize about how they might handle things in the future. Second, I evaluate the systems that they have in place for employee devel
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...match matching process. Companies are now worth $15,000,000,000. You know, our companies are funded by the best VCs in the world, whether it be, Benchmark or Sequoia or Andreessen Horowitz or, Index Ventures.
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The second thing we look for is, what do you know about the future that's nonconsensus and right? And then the third is founder future fit. One of the things that I've learned in looking at these 100 bagger studies is some of these things become clea
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Yahoo opened up their APIs. And so, you know, kind of a game started there. But what the result was that entrepreneurs could build these really interesting products and try them back to this creativity experimentation mindset, and learn a lot quick o
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But a lot of what I often found when people are starting firms is there's, like, not only a gap that you see that needs to be served through capital, but it's a certain DNA that you wanna build the firm around. So you were with the Israel Israeli Spe
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