How to Filter Feedback From Investors and Founders

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Investors and founders are optimizing for very different types of information discovery. An idea that is working now wasn't fundable 10 years ago, or it was fundable and inflamed out. When the founders are really supposed to provide the debt, they've lived with a thought of the problem more than anyone else. But if someone that's an investor says your idea isn't fundable in the current form, that is feedback you might not want to hear.

Today we speak with Jareau Wadé - currently the founder of Batch Processing, previously the co-founder of Balanced (acquired by Stripe), head of growth at Tilt Pro (acquired by Airbnb), and Chief Growth Officer at Finix.

We spoke with Jareau about the early days of Balanced - how they prioritized, gained trust with initial customers, and competed with companies like Stripe and PayPal. Jareau talks through a bunch of different heuristics and models he uses to evaluate risk (stack it early), tackle the cold start problem, synthesize feedback, figure out the technical side of your business early on, and manage the mental side of starting a business.

It's an awesome conversation and you'll take tactics and methods away from it.