Krishnan: The Best Founders Manifest High Output in Short Periods
Sriram Krishnan · Elon's Twitter Takeover and The Future of Social Media with Sriram Krishnan · May 3, 2022 · at 1:12:06
Andreessen Horowitz GP Sriram Krishnan breaks down the key characteristics early-stage VCs look for when evaluating founders.
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“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 prototype somewhere, right? But they already, it's, they, they're very good at just having high output in short periods of time.”
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