founders

“The word even founder, like, I'm just thinking out loud here, but like, it's almost like an outdated term. Like, because like, I feel like the products of the future, you know, it isn't one person, isn't, you know, these like multiple founders, it's like, it's…”

“If you want to be a founder or you want to go build something, you don't have to be in the Bay area in the way that you had to, I think, 1015 years ago.”

“Very simply the best founders when you meet them, right, they already put together something. They already maybe hired one or two people, or they already built something very quickly, or they already have like a, you know, a bunch of customers in some hacky pr…”

“What is interesting though, is I, to be honest, I think that more investors are here than founders. There's a lot of talk about like, People from tech coming here and I don't have any hard evidence or data on this, but there aren't a lot of founders here, whic…”

“Founders need to start taking back not control, but conviction that we are the people that are on the front lines doing the stuff. We are the scarce ones. Money's of abundance. Investors are of abundance. Boards are of abundance.”

“Prices are hopefully gonna reset to some extent in the private markets too. And you're gonna be able to invest in things at a, you know, a more reasonable price point and generate better returns for your investors, which creates a feedback loop of more money f…”

“Think about it with a team, you have to like give great, you know, you're trying to keep the inspiration like that, that, that energy on Mondays and through the week of like, yeah, here's the vision. And like, maybe your investor updates, maybe you don't know …”

“There is a drastic difference between doing something and being really good at explaining how to do it. And so a lot of times when I would go straight for a founder, they'd be accomplished. But then when I asked them, can you explain how you solve these proble…”

“There's a bunch of founders that right now that are worth a lot on paper that are going to have crazy headwinds, like within the next six to nine months. Because they're going to have to recap their companies and that the founders are, they're going to realize…”

“It's really easy for people who have quick wins to get carried away and start to believe that everything they touch turns to gold and lose Lose their kind of psychological calibration to what the actual result is, what, what's going on in their business. And t…”

“Most founders, if you were cash flowing two million dollars a year, you would re your desire to go build a billion dollar business would not go up. It would go down.”

“So I would go do the same thing that he did, which is go find another idea that's housing related, that is more capital efficient, build and sell that company. And then use that credibility to go raise a lot of capital out of the gate for a capital intensive o…”

“I love that this guy, Mr. Beast, defines his own language. You've got re-engagement, you've got lull, et cetera. This is really a hallmark of someone who is exceptional, a founder who's exceptional”

“I think we might even create bonds between founders and AI agents that are stronger than between founders and other founders because all this social tension between co-founders that is often quite strong, particularly when it's crunch time or when Runway is ru…”

“People really discount how much time you have to spend, like managing those investors and relationships and dealing with conflicts that arise.”

“If you're a founder though, and like you raise money, like that's the game you're playing, right? Like you're, you just signed on for this. And if you're not like about that, Probably not the right game personally. This is my opinion, right? It just means noth…”

“Usually for every one hour of audio that I produce, it takes about 40 hours of reading and research.”

“I even told him like, hey, like, I will guarantee you a contract for two years to cover your living expenses. If you just make videos for us and you want to build your own company or whatever cases like, don't worry about that.”

“I think the most effective thing a founder can do, I mean, there's the meme of, like, first founders think about products, second founders think about distribution. I think that's spot on. I think you need to think about, like, what is the headline that will m…”

“I think there's two types of founders, broadly speaking. I think there's founders that operate less like business executives and more like artists. They have a creative vision and they're manifesting it, and they're not really solving a problem. They're just m…”

“I, you know, I just think that that's such a profound lesson for founders that wanna, I don't know, I'm gonna build you an AI co-founder. Like, no, like build an AI that will do one specific thing.”

“The founder is the hardest part, hardest working person in the room. The CEO is the laziest. The job of the CEO is to have nothing on their plate.”

“One of the biggest mistakes that founders make is they hire to discover revenue. What you need to do is hire to scale revenue because it's your responsibility to discover it.”

“If things were growing and going well, I guarantee you that founder is not willing to sell. And so there's probably going to be some things that need to get fixed.”

“The worst thing that can happen to your startup is mediocre, mediocre success. Enough to keep you going, but not enough to change your life. Most founders are trapped there.”

“I've seen founders with better products, better teams, and better markets lose to average founders who simply knew their numbers.”

“Most founders don't fail because they run out of money. They fail because they don't know they're running out until it's too late.”

“Your job is to promote your business. Of course you want to build all the cool stuff. Of course you want to make the thing, but your actual key job, and then you build around yourself and build things that support that your key job is getting out there and pro…”

“The founders and employees that are utilizing agents are like, no word of a lie, 10 to 20 times more productive in their day.”

“You actually want to shadow the human before you build. So once you find the job, right, you, you've identified what the job is before you like prompt, before you start coding, just shadow a human being who does the job. I know a lot of founders want to skip t…”