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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
Welcome to @elad, a multi-time founder and a prolific angel investor. You can learn more about him here: eladgil.com He’s kindly agreed to do an AMA. Reply with your questions. :)
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Cassie Heart
@cassie
Investors tend to be reasonably skeptical, and extremely novel ideas can be hard to vet. When encountering a moonshot project with extremely cutting edge research that requires deep specialization to understand, what do you look for to overcome the skepticism gap?
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Elad
@elad
1. Is there a clear tech/science path forward and 1 or 2 key issues to overcome (versus 20) 2. Are they hiring really well 3. Are they shipping increments / proof points fast or run like academia?
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Cassie Heart
@cassie
Regarding 2: hiring is frequently contingent on money — if said company is raising a seed, short of paying in equity (which essentially only selects financially well off people), how does a founder overcome this catch 22?
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Phil Cockfield
@pjc
👁️👁️ ↑ - @elad
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