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about each of those cities, and what founders in year zero are most often asking you about as mentors in our program? Well, I think the experience in Saudi and here is the entrepreneurial spirit is is invigorating and kind of reminds me of being back
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Makes sense. I think for me, it's a lot like what Zion said, but I would probably even be slightly more specific. I'm looking to be surprised by an insight in a meeting, and that insight could be a business model innovation. Someone says, hey, everyo
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The second is is there's no pipeline problem of finding under invested entrepreneurs. There just isn't. If you talk about what you wanna do and do the work, it will happen. And that's what happened with the Opportunity Fund. So you certainly could ha
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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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Capital is easy to get. It's everything around it. It's that early stage support that takes you from, I think I have a sort of rough idea, but I don't really know what to do next and don't know how to shape it. And how can you help that person move a
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...on startups. You know, we run chess tournaments. We run, reading groups around the history of ambition. We run hackathons. We do a whole, kind of range of things to surface these incredible people. And then we also take applications and, you know, si
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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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veterans transition to civilian life after having been in the military for some time. And similar to the school lunch program, not enough vets were signing up. And we ended up changing just one word in the email message. Instead of telling veterans t
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And that created an amazing opportunity for us to come in and start a dedicated early stage venture capital fund to invest in some of these businesses because entrepreneurs really need that support at the early stage. They need that capital at the ea
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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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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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...like many startups do, of which 1% of our profits, essentially, our carry goes towards a foundation that we set up. And we did that for two reasons. One, it's just something that I care about personally because I've got young children, and I think it
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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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I have three specific things I look for in 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 foun
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...driven. The first was, do I wanna stay in clean tech? The second was, do I want to start my own company? I wasn't a founder at the solar company. I was one of the first employees. And then the last question I wanted to answer was, did I want to be an
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