Davis: Humility, organizational skills, and grit drive entrepreneurial success
Mark Davis · Startup Acquisition Stories with Mark Davis - Managing Partner at Interplay · Aug 2, 2022 · at 43:58
Mark Davis, Managing Partner at Interplay, outlines the essential founder traits required to navigate building an early-stage company.
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“Within a team, the characteristics that I think make people really successful as entrepreneurs, all three things that you have in spades, and why you were probably successful despite having no experience in college, it's humility, organizational skills, and work ethic, grit. And if you have those three things, you'll keep peddling, and people will tell you to turn left and right, and you'll learn and you'll figure it out. Any of those three can be a major weak link in the game.”
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