Keith Rabois
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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Well, I think the biggest difference between like that's called sales is you know, s sales to some extent you want all your customers, right?
Like in in a target market, you want as many customers as possible.
Assessing or decision making and venture is the key ingredient.
For for a fund that has a brand for a fund that can win enough good options.
Let's say let's just eliminate the sources.
Assuming you see them uh useful options,
Then then it's like about decision making.
And like let's put this way when I have sleepless nights, they're 90% about work and 10% everything else in my life.
They're mostly about making the wrong call.
Like may and I've talked about a few of them publicly on podcasts where, you know, X versus Y, and then I could lose sleep for a decade.
And you worry more about pass bad passes.
Well, you try to um
figure out why so you don't replicate the mistakes.
So let me give you a tangible example I'll talk about publicly because it is one where rarely I made a mistake and was able to learn from the mistake and then apply it to a second company.
I've talked about this previously.
I had basically a signed term sheet to lead the seed round for Robinhood.
And then they came back to me after we had like at least a handshake, maybe a signed term sheet and said, would you we want you to join the board?
And this is like about my first year as a VC.
So I didn't have like as much authority myself.
So I went back to my partnership and we had a discussion about, you know, should I join the board?
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