The Importance of Questioning Your Assumptions in Business

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In the first six months from launch to product on shelf, we did $3 million in revenue. We had this product that was a runaway success. You go through this process of building a big deck and that's a lot of work. And we fended out to a group of potential investors and it ultimately didn't pan out. Stephen essentially bet on his product and the bet paid off.

In part 2 of this episode with veteran founders and investors Mitch Kapor & Dr. Freada Kapor Klein, we get into the data of building human-centered cultures. In part one, we heard how Mitch and Freada went all-in on investing their values, committing 100% of new investments in “gap-closing” companies that aim to improve society, even as they aim for scale and liquidity as well. Now, Mitch and Freada can share how that’s played out in practice, with both positive examples … and some negative ones as well. (Yes, they were early investors in Uber!)

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