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#618: Roelof Botha — Investing with the Best, Ulysses Pacts, The Magic of Founder-Problem Fit, How to Use Pre-Mortems and Pre-Parades, Learning from Crucible Moments, and Daring to Dream

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Pre Mortems and pre parades: identify what would’ve killed you or win

The pre mortem. was actually technique that i picked up from larry somers, formy treasury secretary. He posed this as a challenge to the management team at square,. about imagine things go incredibly well over the next three or five years. And so we've taken that concept, we actually used it in our investment memos. So for every investment we contemplate, we write a pre mortem in a pre parade. It really crystallizes, for sure, issues. If you can spend all your time scurrying around, doing all the busy work, if you're not focuse on the things that 'll really compound in matter over the next five to ten years, you're

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