Sam Serruya

As he absorbed what he could from Core, he began reverse-engineering his path to seed investing. He meticulously researched power law outcomes—companies worth more than $5 billion—and made a counterintuitive discovery: multi-stage venture firms were better at seed investing than dedicated seed funds.

“At the time, if you eliminated Uber and Roblox, ... See more

Reading what I have written above, I realize what I’m saying sounds a bit more navelgrazing than I mean it. So I should add: this is not something that you just sit down at your desk to do once, or by going off into the woods to meditate for a week. Rather, it happens, piece by piece, day by day, as you act out what you think you stand for, get fee... See more

Also, you have to accept that not everything can be captured in language and be sensitive to that leftover that floats around languageless in your body.

Ideas can feel complete. It's only when you try to put them into words that you discover they're not. So if you never subject your ideas to that test, you'll not only never have fully formed ideas, but also never realize it.

—Paul Graham