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...bias or the default bias, AKA how many of us are changing the default selection on an app, on any website you open, like, the do you accept all the cookies or you actually press the other button? Ouch. Ouch to all of us. And it's true for us as human
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...bias training or aware of their bias, it's very hard to overcome it. So let's say that you are coming from a place where typically you have the negative position or you're in an unfavorable position because of a specific bias, right? For whatever the
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...on bias that entrepreneurs often have of going for speed and the desire to move fast. Partly, this has come out of startup culture because of the synergies of network effect businesses where speed often really does matter. But 99% of startups don't h
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And so we decided this is not staffed. We will take our time to staff and invest here. And so it's okay in the short term for us to not be worried about that. Whereas other SaaS companies have made a much bigger push into that already. Management wis
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...the startup. So what you notice if you graph it is hiring is not consistent on a quarter by quarter basis. It bulges after each capital raise, pre seed seed, a, b, and then it's attenuated almost to nothing in the six months before the next capital r
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...of bias is all that important because they've already passed several hurdles, which you can easily check out. Is there a chance then that I don't make it that far because of potential bias? And if so, how do I is there I mean, I find it hard to say t
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to on the spot thinking, as well as how they react to feedback. And you learn a lot about how this person works. And I think we use the term, probably overuse it, growth mindset in the tech world. But I think it's especially critical for somebody in
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“Why seed investors are getting lazy about founder evaluation”
I at 40 to 50 post, which is becoming very common. I probably don't wanna be in those either. So I do think there's a question of why would you, as a seed manager, compete for these things? I think mo
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contrarian take23:58 – 24:36
they will be and the more they can adopt a growth mindset and have mulligans and so on and use these strategies that will allow them to overcome it. But I actually can't think of any canonical example of change that's particularly hard. I think the a
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“Why younger VCs have an unfair advantage over experienced investors”
on this topic. Right? Think about what are things that VCs or CNBC, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal are not talking about. Right? Go talk to the real buyers. Form your own thesis. Because I do think, l
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tactical advice1:58 – 2:34
...you have so many biases, especially as a founder, that you're fighting against that you find yourself optimizing just to say yes when you shouldn't. And so building, like, a really good process that prevents you doing that, I think, is critical. And
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