Nico Laqua

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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 20VC: Corgi Insurance: The Most Intense Workplace Culture in America: 7 Days Per Week, Founder Sleeps in Office, Corgi Cafe Open 24 Hours a Day, 60% of First 30 Employees Have Corgi Tattoos | The Journey from $0 to $2.6BN Valuation in Just 2 Years · 30 May 2026 podcast

I really think, like, seeking asymmetric upside or infinite upside, uncapped upside with capped downside is the core of business and taking a lot of shots on goal.

And if you look at kind of people who started important things, not every single thing they did worked.

Like, Napoleon was the best general of all time, but he didn't win every single battle.

You know, he won more battles than average, certainly more than most other generals, but I don't know, I think the fear of losing can't really motivate you, because otherwise, you just become this, like, this creature afraid of doing anything.

Yeah, it's a good question.

I think going to university, going to college, that was a big mistake.

If you want to do big things, you need to go out in the wilderness a little bit and be humbled.

You need to kind of metaphorically get beat up.

You need to, you know, go through the lows before you go through the highs.

I wasted some amount of time of my life doing that.

I don't know if it carries less weight or more weight or, you know, I don't really think about that because you kind of make your own weight in life.

And it's kind of an interesting point because startups are fundamentally, I think, about, like, a crisis of legitimacy.

And that was a big problem in, like, the Roman Empire, right?

Like, it was a non-hereditary monarchy.

You know, the emperors weren't inheriting any legitimacy, so if they were a bit crap, you could just kill them and then, you know, replace them with the next guy.

And I think startups are a little bit like that, where there's not some inherent loyalty.

There's no reason to work for this company or that company.

There's no blood ties, there's no inherited structure, and you can just go out and make your own.

So I think the process of going through a company is just kind of building that legitimacy, and I think that's why people try to point to things like the idea of Tier 1 investors.

as a way to borrow that legitimacy.

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