What Are the Things That Founders Learn?

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i'vl: What are the things that founders learn that will make them better at the job? And then we'll go to inherent things. But what of the things that if you could sit a founder down and say, spend two weeks working on this, spends two weeks working on these, then launch your company, what would they be? You just really need to have one or two good tin things that are really good ios. So it's not credible to try to position things like you're perfect. Just like, be real and be candid, and, you know, talk about your limitations and what they are....

0:35 Jason intros Capital Factory CEO & Founder Josh Baer
1:47 What is Capital Factory in its current iteration? How are they transitioning to remote? Loss of serendipity of random in-person connections
5:38 Josh takes Jason through the SXSW cancellation
10:29 Issues conceptualizing COVID's impact
15:35 Transitioning to rolling cohorts & optimizing their Slack community
21:36 Capital Factory's standard deal terms, why founders join, how returns are divvied up
27:30 Starting Capital Factory during the last economic downturn, how millennials will react to this crisis
30:45 Josh describes his 5 buckets of how companies are weathering the COVID storm
35:09 Remote work's effect on startup collaboration
41:01 COVID's effect on children, getting back to work
47:37 What investing mistakes has Josh made, and how has he learned from them?
56:00 What founder traits does Josh look for?
59:14 Moving to Austin, SXSW history