founders

“The typical thing is that the founder needs to be the product person, right? By the way, it's a hundred percent true. I totally believe that. I think it's the most important thing in the zero to one stage.”

“We see at Silicon Valley where, you know, kind of there, these guys get under pressure and, you know, they kind of feel anxious or whatever, and they decide that, you know, somebody tells them about psychedelics and they try it and they kind of come out the ot…”

“A lot of the best founders are, you know, I think Like, zero percent neuroticism. Like, they just don't get emotionally phased by things that happen, which is a superpower when you're an entrepreneur. But having said that, some of the great entrepreneurs are, …”

“It's the space in between the facts that ties them into a story that is our responsibility to fill in, because if you let people fill it in haphazardly, they might end up with any conclusion that you don't control.”

“The same amount of seriousness that you apply to the product or the code or the hiring You have to be applying to your story, and you're the only person who can say it. You're the only person who can do it that effectively, because you have, at the beginning e…”

“Like if an antelope limps in the Serengeti, the lion will take it down even if it's not hungry. Can't even fucking help it. It's just what is, what he does. And that's kind of the nature of most VCs. This, the nature of it is they will, if the, if you are on t…”

“You learned some lessons from failure, but I think you learned way more from success.”

“And what the trick is, is to retain that founder in a company forever if you can, and for as long as possible. Because once you lose that founder, you do lose the soul of the company.”