Jeff Feiwell
@hyper
It’s amazing how many people will orbit around startups as advisors or something like that in an attempt to give off the scent of startup person in order to accrue status The ultimate irony is that precisely 0 startups make it where the founder(s) doesn’t look extremely silly and low status during the founding era
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Jeff Feiwell
@hyper
Bezos left a 7 figure high status job to manually pack books into boxes on the floor. Do you realize how dumb this must have looked to his former colleagues? Gates and Allen were writing software out of a New Mexico strip mall. Etc etc etc And of course “advisor” is v nebulous; many can be very helpful
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
Example of someone who accrued actual status as a advisor? Silicon Valley antibodies are pretty good at sniffing out value creation most of the time.
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Ben - [C/x]
@benersing
Are you saying you're looking for Advisors for AirGraph? ;)
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christin
@christin
Oh yeah David Perell wrote about this too, the dangers of chasing prestige I think practically speaking the “next big thing” has to by definition be small and weird to start, or else it becomes tautological https://twitter.com/david_perell/status/1687414780494008320?s=46
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Les Greys
@les
been enjoying your startup takes lately.
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Mo
@meb
In France, we have a whole industry of civil servants with lifetime job security dedicated to “supporting startups and innovation” Paid for with our taxes of course. Talk about alignment! So technically, every French person has a stake in every government funded startup, we just don’t get carry lol
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tyler.scharf
@tylerscharf
It’s also out of hope of catching a wave of asymmetrical returns
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