Joshua Browder
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601 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 8 Jan
Joshua Browder’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Being an entrepreneur, and I can speak about my own kind of experience, is like eating glass some days.
It's like amazing other days, but some days, of course, there is always a temptation to give up.
And unless they truly have a connection to the problem and have some sort of chip on their shoulder that they can't give up, then they're going to give up and it will be a bad investment.
And so one of the things that struck me about Adam Guild was he originally started owner.com for his mother.
His mother's had a dog walking business that was destroyed in the pandemic.
And he started it because she needed to get online.
People wouldn't just show up for the physical dog walking business anymore.
And he was the difference in making it between a failure and a success so his mother could afford her livelihood.
And that is the type of kind of chip on the shoulder mission that I look for.
This is not raised to Adam, but maybe other ones, they maybe have something they really want to prove in their childhood or or something like that where they won't give up.
And actually, if I index all of the people that I've met over the past 10 years, including people, I've interviewed thousands of prospective Teal fellows, literally over a thousand now over six years and friends from the Bay Area, friends from Stanford.
I can't tell you a single person that if they were earnest and they never gave up, they didn't achieve some level of success.
Now, of course, it varies.
No, I think their next company or something, they achieve some level of success.
And typically with a company, it's a surprisingly high hit rate if it truly is their life's work.
So the number one thing I look for is, is it their life's work?
And do they have a chip on their shoulder to never give up?
And then beyond that,
A lot of people ask me, how do I pick?
And I have this quote from the Supreme Court, you know it when you see it.
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