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Taste, Conviction, Elon Musk
I was exactly the kind of founder investors like. Four failed startups and years of professional disappointment had paved the way for a decade of success. I was forty years old, knew exactly how hard this was going to be and which mistakes not to make again. I’d worked on hardware and software at tiny and enormous companies. I had contacts,
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If the world was full of probabilistic thinkers, no one would build the next SpaceX or Tesla. The best founders put it all on the line. You want to be a probabilistic thinker as an investor, but a deterministic thinker as an entrepreneur.
Confidence is directly linked to an understanding of what you believe in, your convictions. And that takes time and it takes some real life testing of your beliefs when they’re threatened. It also takes intellect to find the words to express them or the courage to enact them. Sometimes just being able to see and state the obvious can keep us on the
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I think there are a few entrepreneurs that come out that have had protected their generative drive, protected their curiosity, their creativity as they manifest their aggressive drive, and they didn't let their pleasures and their enjoyment of success corrupt them in a way that took their eye off the ball.
But I think those three different drives... See more
But I think those three different drives... See more