Henric Suuronen, a successful founder and investor, sharing his journey from childhood passion to building and investing in billion-dollar gaming companies.
This video features Henric Suuronen, a successful founder and investor, sharing his journey from childhood passion to building and investing in billion-dollar gaming companies. He discusses his core philosophy for building great startups and what makes investors "uncomfortably impressed."
So, and that's a 2018 vintage putting us to top 1% on card attract funds in the world even even like one like one thousands of funds. >> So, when so talking about returns here and and and success on startup investments, what would you say is the one key ingredient that you see in founders? because I mean you guys are doing early stage so it's all about people but when it comes to people what is that one trait that you see in founders that you're like I need to invest in this company so often what we we look for is is it's easy to say great founders so it's so much more complex than that it's usually look for a dynamic duo there's two people very much like in my own fund I have it my my partner founding partner harimman uh that there's two people who they complement each other perfectly. There's maybe one more COO type, the other one is more visionary, able to fund raise, able to
inspire people, able to hire people, and the other one is like a pure execution machine. We often look for a a kind like a a founding duo and and sometimes, and this is something I have learned maybe on on later years, that it's not that the nicest founders are the best. Sometimes the founders need to make you a little bit uncomfortable that they're either so freaking smart that you feel uncomfortable or lot a lot of kind of very successful people have some kind of like out of the norm traits and and I mean Steve Jobs is a good example of that but al also like Mark Zuckerberg uh also out of kind of norm traits and often we see those in invest founders we have so we're looking for a kind of a founding duo often or of course it can be a wider team. There needs to be kind like two at least two people who really gel together, have complimenting skills, not overlapping skills, and they kind
of know what they're good at and they know what they're not good at. That's a super important thing because I sometimes see founders who think they're really good at something and then it's very hard to train them. That's very hard for them to delegate that task to someone else. So, so really to answer your question, I think it's this like this founding duo uh worked together before. They have grass thought about the problem. They want to go and do it better. They maybe have chips on the shoulders from their previous corporate screwing them over money or or something like that and they want to show they can and and now they have this idea they've been thinking about and and they trust 100% each other and then they go at it. Uh so so that's for for example we have this company just announced app charge