first-time founder
also referred to as: first time founders · first-time founders
3 statements across 3 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Oct 29, 2023 by Eric Ries · across every show →
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Oct 29, 2023
Ries: First-time founders are usually stubborn about testing core hypotheses
“First time founders especially are usually very stubborn about this and they don't want to do it. It's like, look, you tell me what you believe. I don't have to be right. And I want to just double check that you're right. What, by however we do it.”
Apr 18, 2024 negative
Caldwell: Investor pressure to hire big-tech executives often leads to startup failure
“You get pushed often by investors to hire executives or to scale the team, or we need, you know, We need, we re you raise all this money. You got to spend it. You know, we got to, you got to show you're serious about growth and building a world-class organizat…”
Jun 14, 2026 positive
Pincus: First-time founders have an advantage over repeat founders
“It almost gives a new founder an advantage over a multi time successful founder because we have too much rope to hang ourselves. It's too easy to raise money and recruit teams against a big vision before we've gotten to product market fit, but the world doesn'…”