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Founders should share a prehistory #134

Open AndersSchmidtHansen opened 9 years ago

AndersSchmidtHansen commented 9 years ago

"Now when I consider investing in a startup, I study the founding teams. Technical abilities and complementary skill sets matter, but how well the founders know each other and how well they work together matter just as much. Founders should share a prehistory before they start a company together ---- otherwise they're just rolling dice." - Peter Thiel [#125]

AndersSchmidtHansen commented 9 years ago

Sam Altman also touches this advice and is quite skeptical of random founders. Founder speed-dating is an especially dangerous thing.