startup founder

“What I find in the great startups that I've seen is the great leaders are very often willing to be disagreeable. And they're not motivated as much by approval seekers, or they don't seek approval as much as they seek the actualization of their vision.”

“So it's the ego needs to be checked at the door problem where you have overzealous founders that, Don't communicate with their employees. They don't build a culture of success and winning. They don't communicate with their investing partners. And you can tell …”

“And feel like with startup founders, that's just happening every three to four months and you have to completely change your perspective.”

“If you're a startup founder, and suddenly some, you know, people have heard of you, and people try to add you as a scout. Like, people kill their startups all the time by that, just by taking their eye off the ball.”

“And so I think we had two or three years where the average founder just wasn't that great, right, on a relative basis to history.”