Founders

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. :)

Hey @elad! Compare and contrast the traits that make for a good founder in crypto vs outside of crypto

I think the most important thing about being an early stage founder is choosing the right thing to work on. If you chose the wrong thing, it doesn't matter how good you are at everything else. This is why you see terrible founders build big companies.

See e.g.

I think the most important thing about being an early stage founder is choosing the right thing to work on. If you chose the wrong thing, it doesn't matter how good you are at everything else. This is why you see terrible founders build big companies.

See e.g. https://pmarchive.com/guide_to_startups_part4.html

Crypto in particular tends to have more researchy/infra companies, so you tend to need to be more deeply technical for many crypto companies today) vs some of the web3 stuff. There is good overlap between crypto and AI in this sense, at least for part of the stacks