Twice a month, the super{set} community comes together for a weekly call - often featuring fireside chats with outside speakers and friends of the super{set} Hive. On one such call, we were pleased to welcome Arthur Patterson - founder of the venture capital firm Accel and an investor in Tom and Vivek’s previous companies, Rapt and Krux.

At super{set}, we adamantly are not VCs. That said, we partner with VCs during our company build-outs, and there’s a lot to learn from the best venture capitalists. Arthur Patterson is perhaps one of the greatest VCs of all time, founding Accel as an upstart in 1983 and building out the firm to become the powerhouse it is today. 

Tom and Vivek discuss specialization and the benefit of enduring focus, FORTRAN programming, Accel’s concept of “the prepared mind,” the benefit of tailwinds and being at the right place at the right time, and the joy of repetition and delayed gratification in entrepreneurship.

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