On this episode of the Traction podcast, host Lloyed Lobo of Boast.AI welcomes Ali Tamaseb, partner at Data Collective Venture Capital (DCVC).

What are the key traits of billion dollar startups?

Ali embarked on a journey to answer that question with real data.

In the process, he has collected the largest data set on startups (30,000+ data points) to analyze every piece of them and understand what makes super founders and unicorns. 

What makes this even more incredible is the fact that he did this manually over the span of four years. 

This labor of love was done with the intent of figuring out what really separated unicorn companies from the rest. Was it luck? Was it a specific skillet? A specific journey?

Ali joined us to share his learnings and discuss how you can use them to scale to unicorn status.

Podcast Highlights:

10:24 - The key traits of a Super Founder

21:37 - Eight ingredients of a unicorn

27:30 - The deliberate ideation process behind successful startups

40:37 - Venture capital vs. bootstrapping

41:43 - How to be opportunistic to win big

44: 59 - How to choose between different ideas in different industries

50:33 - Founder stories and failures you can learn from

Learn more at https://tractionconf.io

Connect with Ali Tamaseb: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alitamaseb/?trk=storyline-update_share-update_actor-image

Learn more about DCVC at https://www.dcvc.com/

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