The Odds
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The Odds
What can someone who's built multiple billion-dollar companies teach you? Some lessons from my conversation with Brad Jacobs: 1. If you get the major trend right, you can make mistakes and still succeed. 2. If you want extraordinary results, you can’t think like everyone else. 3. Complexity hides opportunity. 4. Focus on return on capital and
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Thrive Capital’s Joshua Kushner had a rare public appearance on Patrick O’Shaughnessy’s podcast last week.
..it was quite insightful. To say the least.
After re-listening maybe a couple of times 😂, I’ve picked out some solid takeaways on their values of hard work, vision, concentration,... See more
In 1993, Jensen Huang pitched a startup idea to his former boss, Wilf Corrigan. After Jensen’s pitch, Wilf said, “I have no idea what you just said. That was one of the worst pitches I’ve ever heard.” Wilf then called the renowned venture capitalist Don Valentine, and said, “Don, I’m going to send a kid over to you. He’s one of the best employees
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