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What makes truly great leaders, the compression of seed and the future of YC
- g10r 9y ago- conviction around ideas that are right, but not consensus. Rebel thinking. - update your mental model with data. - conversations around what's working, not working. - one thing about a founder to decide to invest: shadow a founder for a day. Real life better demonstrates true nature of people vs meetings/stories/emails/interviews. - always think about what can go wrong with your product, strategy, competitive landscape. Extreme alertness. - if you have a good product, you can fix sales, customer success, marketing, etc. If you have a bad product, even doing everything else write doesn't help. - Concerned about excess capital in seed markets. Bad companies shouldn't be raising money. Bad for the ecosystem as a whole.