The Exchanges

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Every exchange below was scored with names hidden, four dimensions each from 1 to 5. An exchange's score is 0.30·directness + 0.30·coherence + 0.25·precision + 0.15·compression. The published score averages the raw tape exchange scores and shrinks small samples toward the cohort mean, so five great answers can't beat twenty good ones. Produced feed rows count only toward coarse estimates, never toward a full score.

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Q Yeah. And then the other one is this idea of honesty. Like Brad, do you think as a second time founder, it's really possible to get honest feedback from your investors or friends or things like that? Or do people have a hard time being honest with you at that point?

A Yeah, I think it's harder. Um, when you're a first time founder, nobody cares about you because they don't have any sort of relationship with you yet. You know, you talk to some investor and You're just the product and they tell you if the, if they want to invest or not. Um, and, but then after you've been through a process with people and you've built some sort of rapport and relationship, it's now costly to tell them what you really think about what they're working on. It, you know, it, it basically, it, it all just comes from, it's just a continuation of the same, the first startup being carried through into the second one and not having like a clean break and resetting all those relationships. Um, but, but yeah, I definitely, um, Um, just, it's really hard to get, you know, real true feedback from people.

AI assessment note: “Yeah, I think it's harder. Um, when you're a first time founder”

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