founders

“I always make the partners Of the founders that I invest in and the founders or investors in a fund, usually their partner needs to sign documentation to waiving their rights to the business.”

“And so for me, when I'm talking to someone, I'll do a little bit of a test. Sometimes I'll be like, Hey, for your packaging, it's so cute. I love it. But would you be willing to change it? And I tried to see the reaction, even if I don't want to change it.”

“And the truth of it is, your team is not going to do that. That is going to have to be a you thing at most levels of the business.”

“He had this, there's another maxim, belief comes before ability, which I hate when people are like, oh, you shouldn't have so much self belief. You tell us entrepreneurs, like generate evidence and then have belief. And I'm like, well, I've read 400 of these b…”

“And really the importance of like knowing yourself, and then you're not gonna be successful unless you can build a company that's a reflection of you. You know, essentially like a an echo or a shadow of the founder.”

“The founder was a fine dining chef in Denver, right? He wanted to open a fine dining restaurant, and so he opened Chipotle as a stepping stone saying, I'll open this thing, I'll make some money here, and then I can open my fine dining restaurant. So actually w…”

“Part of being a founder is adaptability. You have to be able to adapt. You can have a clear goal, but if you need to shift things to actually, like, be able to make a return to your investors, to be able to actually, you know, hire more people or really produc…”