Zu Fürstenberg: The best startup founding teams pair rational realists with idealists
Jeannette zu Fürstenberg · How the Renaissance Sparked an Entrepreneurial Explosion with Jeannette zu Fürstenberg · Joe Lonsdale · Mar 16, 2022 · at 12:42
Jeannette zu Fürstenberg, GP at La Famiglia VC, discusses founder psychology and founding team composition with Joe Lonsdale.
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“Looking at the best founding teams, you usually have a mix of both, right? Like, if you look at philosophy, you would probably have something called the realist, and you would have someone called an idealist, right? They usually, like, if you look at the best founding teams, they usually kind of Very very complementary in that sense, speaking of the two cultures you also just mentioned. So you have some people that are more deterministic, you know, they're more rational, top-down, you know, they just kind of apply a more rigorous sort of technology perspective. And then you have others that are more idealistic, so they're more in this kind of creative sort of bottom-up, like, what could this be?”
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