The entrepreneurial journey, emphasizing personal growth, market adaptation, and the psychological aspects of scaling a startup.
The entrepreneurial journey, emphasizing personal growth, market adaptation, and the psychological aspects of scaling a startup. It features a seasoned investor discussing mistakes, hypergrowth, and the importance of founder-market fit.
And Nigel liked the idea of being promiscuous and not just focusing on one thing. Um he wanted to use the skills that we had built over years to help as many people as we could. Um I loved working at a startup. I loved the early days of Capital One as well and said whatever we do, I want to be close to the startup world because that's where the energy is and the excitement. So after putting our heads together, we thought why don't we try our hand at becoming investors? You know, that way you can help lots of very young founders, um you know, who have never done this before and we could apply our operating skills and hopefully help them navigate the challenges of cracking the code and then scaling the business. Um and the beauty of being an investor is once you give them your money, like they can't kick you out. So it's not like being a consultant where you deliver a report and you don't
know what happens and you just move on to the next client. Here you you only get paid if your advice is good and the company does well. You know, and we really love the alignment of being an investor with a lot of these early founders to figure out how to help them kind of navigate the idea maze and and scale into real companies. So that's what we started.