Waterhouse: Entrepreneurship requires a degree of irrationality and blind belief
Daniel Waterhouse · 20 VC 091: Daniel Waterhouse @ Balderton Capital on Investing Styles, Venture Landscapes and The Future of AI · Nov 25, 2015 · at 6:54
Daniel Waterhouse, General Partner at Balderton Capital, explains why complete rationality makes building disruptive companies difficult for founders.
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“If you're completely rational, then I think it's, it can be very hard to be an entrepreneur because being an entrepreneur, it requires you convincing yourself and other people that you're going to do something which frankly is highly unlikely to succeed. And so having a little bit of a psychopathy or insaneness seems to be helpful in, in overcoming that overcoming that and kind of having blind belief that you can change the world.”
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