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Startups
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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Obviously, it's scary. The phrase that I use for entrepreneurship is you throw yourself off a cliff and assemble an iron playing the way down. It's part of that sense of vertigo and impending mortality. But one of the key things for entrepreneurs is
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“Started first business at 11: How early entrepreneurship shapes venture investors”
yourself and sort of talking us through your your career a little bit up until up until now. Yeah. I'll I'll try to give you the reasonably short story, but Oh, we've got time. We've got time. Alright
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founder story0:50 – 1:37
And I had the the kind of chance, opportunity to start a company right out of my graduate school and ended up raising quite a bit of venture money and eventually, kind of went down a path of entrepreneurship. Along the way, one of the things that int
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new, getting into stuff, that understanding business definition is critical. Which is to say, into what areas does your current power umbrella extend? You understand that. Then the next one is the point that Chaney made, which is that expansion into
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So as I've said, I think, on other episodes, my understanding as an economist is that ground zero for economic vitality is the strength of the entrepreneurial sector. So there's a famous economist called Joseph Schumpeter who sort of posited that, an
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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 a blockbuster science fair exhibit and think, I should invest in that kid. I should pay for his baseball glove or her acting les
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Nubara Feyan has been thinking about how biotech gets built and how to change the game for three decades. His breakthroughs have impacted global health. He's the founder and CEO of Flagship Pioneering and the cofounder of Moderna. He wants to make en
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But I had pretty much learned every lesson owning that business. Everything customer support, product, customer service, pricing, obviously everything financially related. And I just loved it. I loved being an entrepreneur. I loved the creativity. I
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“Why big companies kill entrepreneurial spirit and how to survive it”
very, very difficult. We hear over and over and over again from people who have an entrepreneurial spirit and are working inside companies that are just not set up for them to succeed, to generate th
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tactical advice28:59 – 29:33
and just be be honest, I tend to be a little bit less on the risk averse side. I genuinely believe if you stay stagnant too long, you die as a business, especially if you have strong competition. It sounds like competition is coming to your doorstep.
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...startups writ large and new businesses that are created every year. I am consistently surprised at how, at least within the circles that I run-in, how default the assumption is that you need venture capital. Maybe the first point to all founders, you
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Or YC founders? Why have they been so successful compared to normal distributions? It's because they invest their time early in their careers and doing things that are challenging and they stress themselves. They challenge themselves through the hype
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