Nick Crocker
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first heard Jan 2023
last heard Jan 2023
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And then we know that two or three people in our team have scored it at a certain level.
So, we have a blinded process.
We do hire differently.
But the thing is when Blackbird was three or four people when I started hanging around and...
I just think that the lesson is when there's three or four people and everyone's just doing their best, there's always a lot of opportunity just sitting around to help.
And again, anyone who's been an early employee of a startup will know that.
And I was lucky that that was Blackbird for me.
So here's what's funny is when I went to Silicon Valley in 2012, I was like, oh my God, I'm so late to this.
Like maybe I missed the boat.
Maybe Silicon Valley's done.
And then when we raised money in 2013, I thought venture capital's peaked.
There's just, you know, if I don't raise money now, like I'll have no chance.
Venture capital's going to go away.
And then you look back now and everything was so nascent.
Like I still just can't believe where the Australian ecosystem has evolved to in the last 10 years.
Like it still shocks me to think
to sit back and go to know where it was in 2016.
We're not even talking 2010.
So in 2016, five plus years later, it's just staggering.
Yeah, and I don't even think the mentor to founder experience is the valuable part.
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