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Just remember, you’ll be called weird until you’re successful. Then you’ll be called a genius.

The outcome is the only difference between the two.

Healthcare investor by day, web3/AI tinkerer by night. 🟪 Host: /venturecapital /theitinerant

BDFL of Quilibrium, Eng @ Farcaster, ex-Coinbase, always opinionated, never hydrated

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That's fair. I've been told I can be too nice. It's something I'm working on.

In all seriousness though, yes, it can get really ugly, really fast. 

That's one reason I'm hopeful about web3: the truth is easier to uncover and unlike web2, having no presence will be a red flag in itself.

Also, you just nailed why so many VCs won't give a clear “no”…you can't walk it back.

Weird is on the nicer end. Deeply contrarian views get ostracized, ridiculed, even opposed by backchannel. Those same people will then later profess to have always been in your court, and believed in you all along when you prove your views right.

Survival in all elements requires identifying snakes.

Exactly.

“Thanks for sleeping on me.” I always say.

In the opposite direction, it’s called moral luck.

Drive drunk and get home safely, you’ll be called irresponsible, maybe get a fine and your license suspended if you get caught.

Drive drunk and kill someone, you’ll be rightly incarcerated as the murderer that you are.

The outcome is also the only difference