Limited Supply

S2 E2: What Keith Rabois Looks For In Founders

Oct 19, 2022

55:15

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Episode guests

Keith Rabois

Highlights

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Episode notes

Margin thoughts from Keith

01:20

How to Buy a Direct-to-Consumer Business

01:31

M Management advice

00:45

Management Quality Management Is Boring and Not Valuable

01:50

Introduction

3min

How to Compete With the Rest of the World of Investors and VCs

5min

Management Quality Management Is Boring and Not Valuable

2min

The CEM, Clarity Equipment and Motivation

6min

Is There a Sales Team in Shopify?

2min

How to Buy a Direct-to-Consumer Business

2min

How Do We Solve the Fraud Problem at PayPal?

2min

What's the Point of Going Horizontal?

3min

Is This the Groundwork for Open Store to Launch Its Own Set of Brands?

2min

10.

How to Scale Your Direct Consumer Business With Triple Whale's Customer Insights

4min

11.

The Amazon Tailwind That's Gonna Fuel Revenue Growth

2min

12.

Is Open Store a Part of the Business That You Want to Build?

4min

13.

Open Store Growth

2min

14.

How Much Is 50 50 Equity Debt?

2min

15.

E-Commerce - What Are Some Businesses That You Like?

4min

16.

The Lightning Round Quick Answers

2min

17.

What Business Is Undervalued in Your Opinion?

3min

18.

What Gets You Excited About Ebida?

3min

19.

E-Commerce

2min

When you think of big brand investing, you think of Keith Rabois. He gives Nik and Moiz the inside scoop on his investing thesis.

Keith Rabois is General Partner at Founders Fund and CEO at OpenStore, providing liquidity to Shopify merchants and integrating them into a decentralized department store.

He gets into why he looks for quality and caliber when it comes to investing in founders, why extraordinary people lead to breakthroughs, and why the CEO is ultimately responsible for everything.

Growing your business is hard, but Triple Whale is all about scaling your shopify store to the moon and doing it profitably. Use promo code supply15 to get 15% off when you sign up for Triple Whale at www.triplewhale.com

Check out the Nik’s DTC newsletter: https://bit.ly/3mOUJMJ

Follow Keith:

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/keith

Follow Nik:

Twitter: twitter.com/mrsharma

Follow Moiz:

Twitter: twitter.com/moizali

Timestamps:

00:00 intro

05:52 Just Enough Risk

06:41 Keith Raboi’s Investment Thesis

11:50 10 X Breakthroughs Start With Great People

17:56 The CEO Role Broken Down

22:20 Those Middle Of The Night Epiphanies

30:41 Longtail Influencers

33:54 Lessons Learned

42:27 Always Looking For 10X Growth

51:08 The Quick Fire Round

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Limited Supply

S2 E2: What Keith Rabois Looks For In Founders

Episode guests

Margin thoughts from Keith

How to Buy a Direct-to-Consumer Business

M Management advice

Management Quality Management Is Boring and Not Valuable

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