Finding Undiscovered Talent
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Finding Undiscovered Talent
My favorite ideas from the episode with Charlie Songhurst https://t.co/QqdaXkrgJk
Good read from @FinnMurphy12 on understanding which game you are playing in venture capital.
It's worth emphasizing, with so much focus on attention, that there are (basically) two paths:
1) There are startups that are great at capturing our attention; hot technology, charismatic founders,... See more
The speaker explains why investing in unconventional 'weirdos' yields the best results and how strong initial reactions are signals to lean in.
TRANSCRIPT
We knew that then I was like, but that dude just sounds so unlike any other dude I've ever heard about. Go back there And and and I was like and all the things you talking about were not toxic They were just fucking weird Right Right I don want to invest in like sociopaths
And so sometimes you end up with them and you like oh fuck I misread these
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