My Startup Principles

Here’s a basic outline of my startup philosophy:

People

• Surround myself with people who challenge me, teach me and inspire me every day to become the next better version of myself
• Partner with people with an equally strong sense of purpose. I get energy from interacting with people who are contagiously passionate about what they do
• Simplifiers (vs. complexifiers)

Actions

• Move fast, iterate faster
• ==Work from first principles, evaluating each idea, company and market on its independent merits==
• Avoid overfunded areas and prefer companies taking idiosyncratic approaches to solving big problems

Take It Personal

• The magnitude of a startup’s success requires the founder to be deeply invested in their company. The company needs to be an extension of themselves
• If you want the outlier outcomes, what you are building only exists because of you

Taste

• Hard to read the founder without reading the market they choose or product they build

Market

• Don’t chase trends or hot sectors
• 10x better = No competition
• Competition = overmodel the past, monopoly = forge the future’”