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intuition
They could look at a face of a baby chicken and segregate into male and female with 99.8% accuracy. So there's a scientific basis for gut feeling. And sometimes when my framework doesn't work, I feel it in my gut. I feel this is someone exceptional,
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So there's a story of chicken sexers, this village in China, basically did this sort of research. Like, this university in The US did this research project in this village where, they took under seven year old kids from a school, and they took them o
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...be to trust your intuition, especially when it comes to to people. Why is that? Because maybe sometimes at the beginning, you know, especially if you're a first time founder yeah. You you can maybe in the interest of progressing things and getting th
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Instincts can be quite dangerous except for the places where you've had enough time, pattern recognition, and feedback loops to be able to train those instincts. And then in those situations, I think you should really listen to them. I think one area
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...have to trust my intuition, and I have to just be. And once you learn to have just to be, life gets a lot more simple. All of a sudden, everything you ever wished for in your life just starts coming true. It becomes effortless. It's really weird. It'
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“First-time founder's biggest lesson: trust your intuition about people”
...trust your intuition, especially when it comes to to people. Why is that? Because maybe sometimes at the beginning, you know, especially if you're a first time founder yeah. You you can maybe in the
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Since now you've been in the venture seat for seven years, what's the one thing that you know now that you wish you knew back when you started in VC? Trusting your gut when you meet incredible founders. There's very little you can go wrong with when
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I guarantee you, if you talk to a lot of different people, they'll say, I don't know why I did this. I just had a feeling. And I now believe thoroughly in that feeling, and I believe that that feeling is the universe or God, whatever word you wanna p
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...intuition, which, you know, there was a story I had Mike Maples on, and he told the story about Justin TV. So Justin Khan, which became Twitch, which it was a weird thing. It didn't, like, didn't really make sense. And if you brought it to a committe
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yeah, it does subject you to biases, and the best we can do is be aware of those biases as far as possible. But you kind of you know, what what are we as investors apart from starting the you know, the way I look at it is sort of trusting that inform
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to both manage the portfolio but to make an investment decision as well. It's a lot more gut here than than data driven at this stage of the market. And then how we leverage our time the way I just said before. Like, we were we were beginning pulled
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One of the things we say on the consumer team is consumer behavior, especially new behavior, cannot be predicted. It can only be observed. I think you are actually one of the few people that is not true for because you seem to be able to predict cons
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different companies or also what I also like is just young people because motivation drives and it goes across borders and it it jumps across hurdles. So if you really feel that person is is hungry and motivated, then I think it's 80% a good hire. So
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I think it's just somebody who's really interested and motivated in that, but who who who's got a fire burning for that venture you wanna do. It doesn't really depend where they come from. I'm not a big fan of education. If, if somebody was educated
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is only as good as the number of ideas we've had to choose from. And now it can be difficult to choose the right idea to go pursue, and that's where a lot of this process comes into play. But ultimately, the more ideas you have upfront, the more like
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I think that's exactly right. And I think a lot of that comes out in the cost to build it. Right? That can help you understand. It's not just about how long is it gonna take, it's about the opportunity cost. Right? If we spend three months trying thi
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