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...against solo founders. We have some. We have many founding teams. We have, you know, founding teams that are brothers. We have founding teams that are married couples. So we we we never had a, sort of predisposition in favor or against certain certai
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...I am a solo founder and I have 35 to 40%, quote, unquote, more equity than I would have had I had a cofounder, can I increase the generosity of those founding engineer, founding business hire, founding marketing, etcetera, packages and build a a team
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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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...solo founders. We have some. We have many founding teams. We have, you know, founding teams that are brothers. We have founding teams that are married couples. So we we we never
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...age of AI, Solo might be a resurgent sort of type of founding. We often take credit on the show for being the ones to sort of super popularize this idea of a billion dollar three person company. Jeremiah O' Yang and and Ben Parr mentioned on the show
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Founders Fund. Ben, you already alluded to this, but, like, Founders Fund was such a radical idea when Peter started it. The idea being baked into the name that they will always side with founders and never push a founder out of a company. I was shoc
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“Even the strongest founders need concentrated help at critical inflection points”
identify those people? By the way, eventually, I think even even those very strong founders, they will need help at some inflection point because there are unpredictable things happening, and they wo
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By contrast, quote, in the first quarter of last year, there were only two startup acquisitions worth more than $1,000,000,000, which together brought in just 3,200,000,000.0. The caveat here is that Wiz was $32,000,000,000 of the 54.5. So I think th
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...cofounding 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. Reid Hoffman's on your board.
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Thank you to our friends at JETRO, and congratulations to all of the great founders in the first cohort of Founder University. If you wanna learn more, go to founder.university. You'll see a link for Saudi, Tokyo, Japan, and The US programs. Apply. W
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And in a country where they have very low unemployment and plenty of jobs available, it's a very interesting, moment in time when people will give up the security of those jobs to take the risk of starting a company, and that's what we do at our fund
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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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“Small teams making $10M annually might beat most VC-backed founders”
if you're making if you're, like, five people making 10,000,000 a year every year, that's pretty good. And probably they're probably doing better than most venture backed founders, right, who are illi
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...Any solo founders? One, two, three. So four. So about, yeah, four out of 30 are and for our program here at Founder University, we always pick multiples. We don't want solo co founders unless they are extremely, extremely good at recruiting
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mina.launch.co. This is the Founder University website. We've had thousands of people go through the program. And then if you go to mina.launch.co, you'll see that we partnered with the PIF, Sanabul specifically, which is their venture arm, to bring
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...like you're founding the company. I don't babysit founders.
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...a lot of solo founders out there, and I respect them a lot. Because having been through the whole process, it can be a very lonely, difficult journey. And I realized, yeah, I think for me, I'd rather have cofounders because it's it's actually more fu
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