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company. What actually happens in that pit? Yeah. What happens in that boiler room, that back room where it's occurring, and how much progress can you make? Now, you might find out that there's not that much to it, and you're gonna very quickly solve
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obsession. When we saw pitches yesterday and you've talked to companies here in Tokyo at Founder University, in Japan, what's top of mind for you thinking about maybe your next start up and customer don't tell anybody what it is, but just customer ob
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not what they do. Then we spend time understanding what they do, and what their spaces and the deal dynamics. If all of that shakes out, the real core of what we do is the second phase, which is deeply personal conversation. The the frame I share wit
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if you think about the value chain of venture capital from sourcing to exit, you can apply technology and machine learning and AI, to use a terminology of today, across all the different steps. No doubts about that. And I have millions of ideas of th
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less or or more. But I would say somewhere between three to five is a good starting point to make the most out of your evaluation process. And it's it's bring it brings us to the third step of the market opportunity navigator, a step that we call the
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founders to go from evaluation to prioritization is to figure out which one is most attractive to begin with and then build this portfolio of other direction that you want to keep open, maybe for backup if you're not successful with your primary mark
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high diligence, high conscientiousness, and sort of by factors, all those sort of things. If you look at middle management of those companies, they need good project management, good ability to abstract and structure problems, good ability to pull a
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branding people and marketing people in their paychecks. So, I don't believe there will be a fit one strategy for everybody. But I do believe that we are in front of a very unique opportunity. There is the opportunity, thanks to AI, to create a new t
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...mission, my values, and my people. And until that point, I'd only backed founders, supported founders, invested in founders with my own money,
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what matters in startups at the moment is your pace, your productivity, your velocity, how fast you can move, and being able to, bring some of the world's best founders here to capitalize on that. It's just a it's a match made in heaven. You created
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Porsche did it under coercion by the Nazis. Right right. It's not impossible but quite different. And then if you go from cars to refrigerators, it's really different. So yeah, no, I I agree with that analysis. But remember to not to forget the impor
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this sort of pedestal approach of I am pitching a VC, and I need to sell to them and convince them on something that maybe I don't have the depth of conviction on. And so I always find that that unlocks a different level and higher quality conversati
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...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 Patel from Lotus,
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These are challenging businesses. But the leaders of these businesses typically are great investors, but they're also entrepreneurs. And that entrepreneurial journey is particularly lonely in this industry. And so our team's job, the thing that I lov
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