Young Founders

“The VCs will say anything to get you to sign right there and then. Anything. They'll say, I, they, so they'll reverse engineer what the founder is looking for and say, oh, I'm friends. I'm buddies with that guy. I know someone at that company with golf buddies…”

“I've never, ever not seen a young founder not fall for big logos. Ever.”

“I think that nowadays there is a culture of celebrating, you know, young founders, young entrepreneurs And so I wouldn't say that you actually have that much going against you. In fact, I would almost say a little bit of the opposite, that, like, if you are so…”

“There's no statistical difference in success rate between young founders and old founders and single founders and groups of up to seven.”

“This is an opportunity where college students are particularly well, like young founders are particularly well positioned to work in it because nobody has like there's no one walking around with like four years of LLM experience. So like everyone is starting f…”

“Hiring people significantly older than you can be problematic because then they can have a bit of a superiority complex because as far as they can Be concerned is actually we're older than you. I'm more experienced than you. How can you tell me what to do?”

“If I had to pick like specific things that I think young founders frequently don't understand how to do, I would say hiring and firing are probably the top.”

“I think one of the biggest mistakes is not hiring a senior enough talent. I think that especially younger founders, a lot of times I see them falling into the trap of hiring people that are their age or younger.”

“I think that as startups go more and more into a more complex world, parts of the world, and out of, hey, I've got a cool viral app, which I think is a path we need to continue to walk down, it's very important that we are able to pull in, I don't know, people…”

“Like, if two young people just, like, start a company with a good but obvious idea, I would never invest in that because, like, I'd rather invest in, like, the experienced people with the same good and obvious idea.”

“The biggest advantage of all, I think is that Younger people tend not to have the scars of experience. They don't know what they don't know. They are willing to take on these things again and again.”