Founders

If you had to assess if a founder is suitable for venture funding with one question, what would you ask?

Assume founder market fit, and venture scale idea.

I’m getting at the people side of it

Working on building zkTLS infra/products. A ruthless empiricist and meme connoisseur.

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One question is hard. There are attributes I can list that my corner of the world looks for:

- non-linear careers or “portfolio careers”; focusing on collective skills acquired and ability to ramp/learn new things quickly, out of the box thinker, etc. Jamie Dimon is taking this approach now.
- ability to fail; any experiences showcasing big risks and self-awareness around it, learnings to move forward
- scrappy or showing gumption; no formal or elite degree, from underrepresented and/or lower socioeconomic backgrounds, immigrants, consulting exp, etc.