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Ep 36: Alexis Ohanian on Y Combinator, Getting Punched, and Picking Winners

The Tim Ferriss Show

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I've Been Criticized, Even by Some v Cs

Mandel: A lot of folks will use paid acquisition, and they'll have a fancy landing page with email capture that promises the world, but no one's actually tried it yet. They are seeing something that everyone else hasn't quite gotten yet. He says his investing thesis is very simple. It can i be a power user of this product? Is the market large? Can i drive, say, a hundred thousand users to this service or product? And d does my audience and the reach i have overlap with their target market?

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