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“Why most serial entrepreneurs fail: the survivorship bias trap”
...serial people is that they usually get killed by survivorship bias. Meaning, hey. I've done this thing, therefore, I can do these other things. And, you know, so so often, like, you just learn nothing
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contrarian take5:45 – 6:06
“Successful serial entrepreneur reveals his surprising motivation: desperation and revenge”
repeat entrepreneurs on the podcast, but but not that many because there aren't that many. You've had a lot of six success, you know, over and over again. And so, what what is it? It it is looking for
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personal lesson3:40 – 4:18
...founder with a chip on their shoulder. I don't think it works if it's serial founder where they've had a unicorn exit and, like, they've kinda, like if there if there are other choices, hey. I could just retire and have, like, have a $100,000,000 any
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from transcript16:30 – 17:38
...of serial entrepreneurship? Inherently, I find that I feel so much more comfortable backing a serial entrepreneur. There is so much learned through the scar tissue of the mistakes you've made before. But then others say about the benefits of naivety
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from transcript11:59 – 13:02
I can can give you a very lost long list of individuals where that's true. But that doesn't mean that then they didn't necessarily go on and co found something else, maybe five or or or ten years later that turned out to be successful. I think the on
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...Entrepreneurs First, cofounder Alice Benthic, investing in founders sometimes before they even know what it is they're founding. Every once in a while, I'll see a kid pitching in a Little League baseball game or acting on a school stage or turning in
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...entrepreneurs start some form of entrepreneurial project early. They're thirteen, fourteen building websites. They could be selling cookies at their school, but they start entrepreneurship in some way early. Do you both agree with that? I think that
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from transcript34:27 – 35:32
...versus entrepreneurs who tried their asses off, raised money and for some reason or another, it didn't work out. They come back
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from transcript16:29 – 17:37
...the best entrepreneurs that I've worked with, you know, they they were world's experts, but they also had that that personal motivation. Like if I think of the Snowflake guys, Benoit and Terry, the two principal founders, they had worked in the belly
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somebody asked and said is it true that nobody's ever started a successful company after 35 years old because in Silicon Valley everyone's like I know all the power law companies are founded by younger individuals which has some truth and and also do
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from transcript53:32 – 55:10
...of entrepreneurs that, you know, none of them wanna work that hard, they're all entitled, blah blah blah blah. I was thinking in the back of my mind, oh my god, I've got the perfect entrepreneur for you. Because Mike has none of those traits. He's no
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from transcript7:58 – 10:01
...entrepreneurs that I've worked with, you know, they they were world's experts, but they also had that that personal motivation. Like if I think of the Snowflake guys, Benoit and Terry, the two principal founders, they had worked in the belly of the b
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“Started first business at 11: How early entrepreneurship shapes venture investors”
...driven by entrepreneurship from from my early years, started my first business at age 11, and that kind of carried on through through high school and even into college. And and by the time I was looki
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founder story0:50 – 1:37
...who is, a serial founder, has had an exit before? Presh isn't that, but he has worked for me, so he's got a good pedigree. Then you also want a founder who has got a particular obsession with the product, the service, etcetera. So if you were to look
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