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The Best Venture Firm You’ve Never Heard Of
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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 morefrom TAPE SUCKS: Inside Data Domain, A Silicon Valley Growth Story by Frank Slootman
- He doesn’t see the world as a mere distribution of luck-based outcomes. Instead, he praises conviction, bets on transcendent founders, and invests in the kind of companies he’d want to work for.
from Peter Thiel’s Religion by David Perell