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Team building
...A startup is a team sport. We have this 10 in, which is one of our values, which is playing for the front of the jersey. So it's not about you as an individual. It is actually about solving problems. And when the company is growing, when you're hirin
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startups companies solves the whole market timing issue. I love that in terms of the phrasing, the shifting of, like, favor for them, not favor for you. How many of those conversations do you have before you find a discernible pattern which you're wi
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and tell them, hey, we listened to you. This is the concept for solving that one big pain point you told us about. What do you think about it? And if they like it, we'll go build it and then come back to them in three or four months and ask them to t
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Certainly, like, the Elons and Steve Jobs of the world had sort of big big spans of, like, wandering in the desert, where they were not as cool as they are today. And, like, the things they were doing weren't working, And they manage things very diff
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...teams who are, you know, from late twenties and thirties sometimes to the early forties. And so
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I mean, you need to find ways to find spy in the industry to really get to know the person because I have done that mistake myself, and I have seen at index too many founders doing that mistake. That's the biggest mistake you can make because the pow
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...team appropriately. Almost every other CEO I know, including ones who've been incredibly successful, probably procrastinates on that conversation a little too long. I do look for something called a force multiplier at the company, and those are the p
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...together and and then show them the way as opposed
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so sometimes there's situations where you there's two directions to the business, and you don't know which direction to take, and you're not able to agree on whose direction to to take. And so that's why I think it it is important that even in a clos
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...if the team is intact, you'll find something else to work on. And so I think that, like, where things really blow up in my experience is cofounder relationships.
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...with my own team. Right? It's just making sure that every day I am alert on what can break my company tomorrow. I wanna go back to something you said, which was you were lying in bed thinking about the type of founder that you wanted to have with you
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relationship pre deciding to found a company and spend your life together with someone bluntly. Given that you're working so well, how do you advise founders on founder selection given so many people say a lot? Given your experience, how would you ad
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to commit fully, to commit to do it one AM, to miss your friend's birthday, to miss if you don't agree with it. I think the answer is then you have to leave. Like, starting a company is not a suicide pact, and you're not committed for the rest of you
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And yet we know that sixty five percent of startups fail because of relationship breakdowns. Between founders. Yes. Founder conflict. I'm struck by this 65% statistic that 65% of startups that fail, fail at least in part because of conflict between c
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