founders

“It's very hard to run a company when the founders are in place and Kind of want to have the last word.”

“She was a perfect person to be a COO to, like, a, you know, crazy kind of loud mouth, visionary type person who had big ideas and big dreams. She was an executor, and that's what A lot of us founders need some time as, you know, the right person to actually ma…”

“The second question, if founders are interested in venture capital, is to really do the diligence on the fund and the partner who is leading that deal, because there's just a wide variety of outcomes that funds are shooting towards, and stylistic differences b…”

“The issues create the character. I really believe that very strongly. All of the founders have all got issues.”

“I think one of the most basic truths of entrepreneurship, which is overlooked by almost every founder I've ever worked with or advised, is that the faster you are to recognize when you're wrong, the faster you can move toward being right.”

“And on the opposite of that, I would also say, don't start a company thinking it's going to be acquired by this company or that company, right? I think a lot of times people box themselves into that.”

“Building a community as a founder is different than building community as a creator. There are similarities, but I think it would be a mistake to assume it's one for one”

“As a founder, you know, you have your company attorney or whatever, but you do need to have Kind of your own really great attorney, just to have somebody to ask questions.”

“Next to founding a company and coming up with an idea, the next most important thing is to make sure that you have somebody who can succeed you that can do better than you did.”

“So I always ask founders and say, you know, you can't answer why me? Why now? And why this? Then you have a me too product, but you have to add all the time to your career, be able to say, why me? Why now? And why this?”