Marc Lore: Half-trusting people yields all downside and no upside
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Marc Lore, serial founder and investor, discusses his framework for radical trust and vulnerability in professional and personal relationships with Harry Stebbings.
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“I've found, and I'm very trusting, when you openly trust someone, really trust them, like where they can burn you, like put yourself in a place where they could burn you. They rarely do. Occasionally you might get burned, and that's part of one of the consequences of being open, but there's so much more upside to trusting. The worst place to be is kind of that no man's land in the middle. Where you're kind of like half trusting, you know what I mean? Because you'll still get burned, and you won't get any of the upside.”
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