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Super Founders: What Data Reveals About Billion-Dollar Startups with Ali Tamaseb
Village Global Podcast
English - April 18, 2021 12:00 - 37 minutes - 34.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 79 ratingsManagement Business Investing business entrepreneurship entrepreneur startup Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Ali Tamaseb (@alitamaseb), investor at DCVC and author of Super Founders: What Data Reveals About Billion-Dollar Startups joins Erik to discuss:
- His learnings from gathering data on unicorns and comparing them to a random selection of startups that didn’t succeed.
- Why the age of a founder doesn’t correlate to success.
- Why successful founders aren’t necessarily solving personal problems and are often going through a deliberate ideation process.
- How data could make someone a better investor.
- Why competition is actually good for startups.
- Why successful founders are often opportunistic.
- Why there is resistance to these conclusions.
- Why being a solo founder doesn’t make you less likely to succeed.
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