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The Wisdom List: Leif Abraham
One thing I'm always on the lookout for with people. Are they moving quickly? Are they evolving quickly? In my view, at the end of the day, when you're betting on a founder, especially if the market's not super clear, what you're trying to do is, you're trying to predict that, that particular person will have as many shots on goal as possible
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ONE OF THE MOST valuable pieces of advice I received from my mentor, Ludwig Jesselson, is, “You can mess up a lot of things in business and still do well as long as you get the big trend right.”
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✍Journal. Relationships, Teachers, 'Sacred' Spaces, and Learning From Chris Davis, Reece Duca, Scott Bessent, Aswath Damodaran, and Morgan Housel
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Sam Altman, the former head of the venture capital firm Y Combinator, offers his own take on the idiosyncrasies of founders:8 I look for founders who are scrappy and formidable at the same time (a rarer combination than it sounds); mission-oriented, obsessed with their companies, relentless, and determined; extremely smart (necessary but certainly
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The Not So Cookie-Cutter Approach to Company Building — 8 Lessons from Zapier
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