Nico Laqua

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1,048 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard May 2026 last heard 30 May

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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

Yeah, it does make it easy to poach.

Yeah, the soft skills matter, I think, more than the hard skills for me.

Because if someone really wants it, if they're like all in, if they want to like...

do the maximally hard thing, the ambitious thing with their lives and they actually want to go all in, then you normally can find a place for someone like that.

And it might not be exactly what they are applying for, what they think they're going to be doing.

But I think you should just solve hard problems.

You should do hard things.

And you can kind of tell if someone's into that or if they're into checking in and checking out.

I like to ask people what matters to them and why.

I think that they tend to answer that honestly.

I mean, I don't necessarily mind.

That normally comes from a certain place, I think.

Like, to me, that answer normally would reveal that someone didn't have a lot of money.

I think my answer for that is probably a little different, but I don't find that to be necessarily alarming.

Although I think that being extremely money motivated leads you to short-term local maximums that don't actually result in the most money being made.

What is your answer to that?

I want to build the most important company in the world.

I want to, you know, win.

I admire the greats.

I very much want to join them.

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