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> I'd say about a quarter to a third of founders we fund have never-give-up morale. The rest are mostly in the middle group. What's the distribution of never-g
by walterk 18y ago
> I'd say about a quarter to a third of founders we fund have never-give-up morale. The rest are mostly in the middle group.
What's the distribution of never-give-ups among YC startups? That is, do startups with a never-give-up tend to be composed entirely of never-give-ups? What are the dynamics for startups of mixed composition?
- pg 18y agoThere seems to be some tendency of never-give-ups to cluster, but it's not absolute. It's common to have one founder who's super determined and another who is less so. If the never-give-up is sufficiently convincing, that's almost as good as having all never-give-ups. He drags the rest along. The dangerous case is the startup that has all middle of the road founders. These have to get lucky fairly quickly or they give up.