repeat founder

“I think if you look at some of the biggest, most important companies over the last 10 years, they're first time founders, you know including Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook. So, you know, I don't I don't think repeat founders are always the best founders.”

“A lot of times people have done it before are the most blind to the opportunity that they're going into because they think it'll be, you know, be easy.”

“I actually put almost no weight on did they do it before and put all the weight on are they super unique, insanely talented, ruthless in a way that they understand how business is and can actually really get things done. I just invest in the founder regardless…”

“Like, I don't think I would be that excited to back a founder who built Fintech company one and then goes on to build Fintech company two.”

“So repeat founders, they typically go for a much bigger goal. You know, Torsten did a gaming company, then he went into defense. And we can talk about Danny Alecke as the first company was e-commerce. And then he took on a massive challenge of building Spotify…”