No Rivals: The Founders Fund Story
New technology tends to come from new ventures—startups. From the Founding Fathers in politics to the Royal Society in science to Fairchild Semiconductor’s “traitorous eight” in business, small groups of people bound together by a sense of mission have changed the world for the better. The easiest explanation for this is negative: it’s hard to deve
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From the perspective of an operations guy, there is a lot of riff-raff in venture capital: posers, herd mentality, technology infatuation, too much education, not enough experience to appreciate what grit and focus it takes to grow a business out of nothing. To have a fighting chance, you want to be with the best firms, and the best partners in tho
... See moreFrank Slootman • TAPE SUCKS: Inside Data Domain, A Silicon Valley Growth Story
“If you’re a founder who thinks, ‘Oh, I’m working on this thing and it’s slightly weird, who will understand this?’ You seek out Peter and Founders Fund.”
The Gospel of Founders Fund
firm invests in 10 companies with the potential to become monopolies—already