founders

“I might argue the venture market has over-earned for many years, right? And so the market's gonna become more efficient, it's gonna be more competition, with more competition, that means founders are gonna have better access to capital, they're gonna have more…”

“The full the reason to finally jump and dedicate my life to founders came, I was, my wife was sleeping in bed next to me. I'm up late at night. I read Paul Graham's essay, How to Do What You Love.”

“No, like, I pick the books, I record them, I edit, I'm still a one-person show.”

“If you feel your product can improve people's lives, I think you guys already know, cause you get thousands of, you Messages, just like I do, that yes, listening to acquired, listening to founders will improve people's lives and work, right? Then you have a mo…”

“Like, you have to inspire emotion in people. Otherwise, like, you just, you can't stand out in the world. And you certainly can't have repeat behavior and, ah, in a sea of choices for someone to keep choosing you over and over and over again. Just like, it's l…”

“The format for our founders I got from Jocko. I found his podcast because he was on Tim Ferriss's. His podcast at the very beginning was just him reading books for an hour, hour and a half saying, oh, I like this section. Yeah, and he does it for autobiographi…”

“He said two words. Improved odds. That is the best, from a founder's perspective, that is the best description. It's like, if I take investment from you, as opposed to this other guy over here, this other girl over there, like, who is going to be, founders don…”

“There's been like something like 15 acquisition or investment offers for founders. I've said no to every single one.”