Great Founders
topic on 4 shows · 7 statements across 7 episodes
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American Optimist 
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7 statements about Great Founders, every show
Younis: Great founders possess a distinct ability to repeatedly master luck
“There's another aspect too is there is luck, but there's some ability that the great founders master that luck. Like they figure out How to, like, just keep getting, you know, lucky again and again. And so, like, what do you call that? I don't know what you ca…”
Great Founders Relentlessly Teach Company Values by Repeating Maxims
“This is why I think distilling things down to a list of principles or a handful of maxims is so common and so important because essentially what the leader of the company is doing, what Jensen's doing is you're continuously teaching and reinforcing your compan…”
Harry Stebbings claims 95 percent of great tech founders are addicts
“I think 95% of great founders are addicts and you, there's many different addicts.”
Claure: Great Founders Are 90% Right When Trusting Their Gut
“At the end, a great founder, well, you know what they'll do? They're gonna listen to all of us, but at the end, they're gonna trust their God. And their God is 90, or our founder is 90% right. And when you go back to them and say, look at the last 10 decisions…”
De Rycker: Great founders expand initially small markets via product adjacencies
“The great founders, They just create adjacencies. They change user behavior with beautiful products, and I completely got that wrong because the markets, they look small.”
Zu Fürstenberg: Great founders may not succeed, but they never fail
“In my view, great founders never fail. They may not succeed, but they never fail.”