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Storytime: We Burned $140 Million Learning What Not to Do in a Startup (with James Beshara)

The Quest Pod with Justin Kan

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Don't Start Companies With Co-Founders Without Working With Them

Don't start companies with co founders that you just met without working with them a little bit first. One of the biggest mistakes i remember making is choosing people based on, basically, like, will they validate that this is worth working on? Will they join me? And i was just so surprised people would join me. I actually wasn't picky enough. I wasn't greedy enoughi like, no, you i really need to take as much time as possible. Ah, because we would bring on our early employees, i loved my cof under, but our early employees,. many of which was just like, who would enthusiastically pare it back to us that this isworth working on

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