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Elad Gil on startup fundraising in 2023, his bold predictions for Silicon Valley, AI market map, energy and the politics of nuclear power, and how he finds the smartest builders
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What Was Your First Angel Check?
Brian Chesky: I care more about the product market than the team for companies simply because I've seen amazing teams get absolutely crushed by bad markets. And so, you know, an example of a company that was never viewed as incredibly functional was Twitter, right? When they bought my first company, they hadn't been able to deploy code for a couple months or something. That was amazing product market fit. So it just kind of happened a bit organically. You know, I funded one or two companies that no longer exist now. I funded some things that are still up and running like a minted or,you know, things like that. It's really hard and you need an
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