Garber: First-time founders in secondary markets possess irreplaceable hunger
Scott Garber · 9 - Empowering Founders to Win with Early Light Ventures Managing Partner Scott Garber · Dec 5, 2024 · at 4:12
Scott Garber, Managing Partner at Early Light Ventures, explains why he prefers backing first-time founders from second-tier regions over repeat founders.
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“I think with the first time founder, especially one that went to a second tier school, like a good school, but not a great school. And some of that's in a second tier city. There's that chip on their shoulder. There's that aggressiveness, the pugnaciousness. They really want to prove it. They want to prove that they can do this. And this is their one chance to do it. They can't just fail and go raise another big venture round and a new company and just start over.”
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