VC Twitter echo chambers destroy the mental space needed for original thought
Tomer London · 20VC: Gusto Co-Founder, Tomer London on Why Most Founders Approach Fundraising With The Wrong Mindset Today, How To Construct A Values/Motivation Alignment Test To Determine The Right Investors For You & Why Delight Is So Crucial To The Success of Any Con · Feb 28, 2020 · at 7:34
Tomer London is the co-founder of Gusto. He discusses why founders should limit their exposure to venture capital social media discussions and online echo chambers.
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“I think social media in general, like, you know, the amount of information, the amount of opinions, the amount of knowledge out there has a lot of positives, but it also has some negatives, and we talk a lot here about being in a bubble, and kind of the echo chamber, and people repeating each other's words, and I think when you're in it, when you're overly tuned to the kind of repeated opinions, and kind of the small debates, and the small conflicts that happen in this bubble of venture You just don't have the mental space sometimes to come up with something original, to be different, to think differently, to really just be contrarian enough in order to do something special and unique.”
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