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Keith Rabois on how Contrarians Think: The Early Days of Square, Yelp, & PayPal

The NFX Podcast

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The Challenge of Being a Contrarian

Jeff Bezos has a great quote about this: It's easy to be contrarian. The real challenge is the banditering overlap of right and different. And do you think it takes a misfit to launch a Falcon 9, for instance, to do something super ambitious like that? Yeah. I mean, at the time, your friends are going to tell you you're crazy. When I make a new investment, I really want half of my phone for a DC's to think I'm a bit crazy and like laugh at the investment.

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