Eric Vishria

Yeah. I think the question is whether it's deterministic or not. Like it, It's just like, is all of that knowable? Like we're all taking calculated, whether you're an entrepreneur or you're an investor, you're taking a calculated risk, right? Of certain probabilities. And so I just, I don't think it's deterministic.

If you kind of like perfectly evaluate the team, the timing, the product and everything at the beginning, you can actually determine with certainty whether it's going to work or not. And that's just like, that's part of it because there's too many things that change along the way. As those things change, the probability of potential outcomes changes a lot.

If you kind of like perfectly evaluate the team, the timing, the product and everything at the beginning, you can actually determine with certainty whether it's going to work or not. And that's just like, that's part of it because there's too many things that change along the way. As those things change, the probability of potential outcomes changes a lot.

If you kind of like perfectly evaluate the team, the timing, the product and everything at the beginning, you can actually determine with certainty whether it's going to work or not. And that's just like, that's part of it because there's too many things that change along the way. As those things change, the probability of potential outcomes changes a lot.

And so like, I think that's the part of it that that's why startups are hard and fun.

And so like, I think that's the part of it that that's why startups are hard and fun.

And so like, I think that's the part of it that that's why startups are hard and fun.

Oh, a million. I do a million things differently. Like I, and I say this to the CEOs I work with now is, Some of the big mistakes that I made were definitely not thinking about distribution enough. That's always a big thing. There were a couple times or two people specifically that I think about where what they wanted in comp and what I was willing to give were separate.

Oh, a million. I do a million things differently. Like I, and I say this to the CEOs I work with now is, Some of the big mistakes that I made were definitely not thinking about distribution enough. That's always a big thing. There were a couple times or two people specifically that I think about where what they wanted in comp and what I was willing to give were separate.

Oh, a million. I do a million things differently. Like I, and I say this to the CEOs I work with now is, Some of the big mistakes that I made were definitely not thinking about distribution enough. That's always a big thing. There were a couple times or two people specifically that I think about where what they wanted in comp and what I was willing to give were separate.

They were just off and they were so far out of market in terms of what their ask was. At least for one of them, I would have just... broken all the rules and thrown it out and hired them. Those are two examples. But I think those things, you know, you can get into real trouble if you kind of keep doing something like that. It's always a balance.

They were just off and they were so far out of market in terms of what their ask was. At least for one of them, I would have just... broken all the rules and thrown it out and hired them. Those are two examples. But I think those things, you know, you can get into real trouble if you kind of keep doing something like that. It's always a balance.

They were just off and they were so far out of market in terms of what their ask was. At least for one of them, I would have just... broken all the rules and thrown it out and hired them. Those are two examples. But I think those things, you know, you can get into real trouble if you kind of keep doing something like that. It's always a balance.

I'm not looking for an answer or a right answer. What I'm really looking for and trying to figure out is, has the person thought about deeply and is constantly learning or constantly applying and adding new mental models to their framework to figure out what the right path is and they're navigating it.

I'm not looking for an answer or a right answer. What I'm really looking for and trying to figure out is, has the person thought about deeply and is constantly learning or constantly applying and adding new mental models to their framework to figure out what the right path is and they're navigating it.

I'm not looking for an answer or a right answer. What I'm really looking for and trying to figure out is, has the person thought about deeply and is constantly learning or constantly applying and adding new mental models to their framework to figure out what the right path is and they're navigating it.

It isn't like, hey, I'm a boat captain and I'm looking and like, this is where we're going to go. You start going and then conditions change and you get more information and you have to kind of constantly change. And so what you're actually trying to evaluate isn't, they're not going to have all the answers and that's okay.

It isn't like, hey, I'm a boat captain and I'm looking and like, this is where we're going to go. You start going and then conditions change and you get more information and you have to kind of constantly change. And so what you're actually trying to evaluate isn't, they're not going to have all the answers and that's okay.

It isn't like, hey, I'm a boat captain and I'm looking and like, this is where we're going to go. You start going and then conditions change and you get more information and you have to kind of constantly change. And so what you're actually trying to evaluate isn't, they're not going to have all the answers and that's okay.

You can have theories and hypotheses and then evaluate and change as time goes on and you get more information. I think that's really what you're looking for versus this is how it's going to work. And that could be bad in its own way.