Puri: The best early-stage tech investors judge founders in under ten minutes
Shaan Puri · The Crazy Story of Google’s 7 Angel investors · Jan 16, 2025 · at 50:25
Shaan Puri discusses the heuristics used by top angel investors compared to institutional venture capital due diligence practices.
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“The two best early pickers of startups ever in the history of Silicon Valley, both make their decisions based off of just, do they feel like these people are fierce founders and they can figure that out in less than 10 minutes. And then here you have people that are doing market analysis and segmentation maps and tons of due diligence and this and that, and they have thesis on, on, on all these different markets. And it's like, dude, the best people Are literally just amazing judges of people, and they're making their decisions in five minutes, and then they spend the rest of their time just helping people.”
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