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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I was lucky to back to the first engineer, sorry, the youngest engineer at Amazon when he was 16.
And obviously he's a top 1% engineer for his age, in my opinion.
But it can also be distribution like the Watt founders or Adam Guild who have more experience breaking through the noise in a very crowded world.
And that can sometimes be even more important.
Yes.
So at the pre-pre-seed, when the company is on life support and it incorporated a week ago, there's only three reasons why I think they fail.
And it's very simple.
They run out of money.
They run out of hope or co-founder disputes.
Co-founder disputes can be managed.
YC has done a very good job about educating the ecosystem on vesting and things like that.
So I'm less worried about that.
And you can kind of tell if they hate each other, at least initially.
Running out of money is also not really an issue at my stage of investing because I give them kind of enough speed that they typically almost always raise some downstream funds.
It's the running out of hope that's the biggest thing.
And so the number one thing that I do for the entrepreneurs I back is every week I want them to feel like they're making serious progress.
And it builds over time.
And it's like an escalator of momentum and credibility.
The first step on the escalator can even be, they decide what the name of the company, if they get a top tier name and domain name, that's a great first step.
Then they build their product, getting kind of a test version of their product out and then getting their first customers.
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