Ramtin Naimi
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first heard Jul 2025
last heard Jul 2025
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I think at seed stage, coverage is absolutely key because there is no market map of everything that exists.
Most of these companies don't even have websites yet.
There is nothing to exist.
So you really just need to have your tentacles everywhere to get as many companies as possible surfaced up to you.
And there is so little that exists about these companies that there is very little work you can do to qualify or disqualify in advance.
So you really just need to spend time with them.
We have a 30-minute meeting at least once a day to just catch up on every company people have met with that day because we meet with so many companies that it's very easy to forget what was interesting.
On a daily basis, we're kind of just syncing up.
Has anybody met anything that other people on the team should meet?
The number one thing that I look to from founders is prove to me that you're exceptional.
If you look at the most successful, impressive founders out there, they tend to have been impressive people prior to starting that company.
They had a history of doing special and impressive things.
And
There was this famous question on Quora once upon a time that somebody asked and said, is it true that nobody's ever started a successful company after 35 years old?
Because in Silicon Valley, everyone's like, I know all the power law companies are founded by younger individuals, which has some truth and also doesn't.
And the people who answered that question were like,
Reid Hoffman, he's like, I founded LinkedIn when I was over 35.
And Mark Benioff, he's like, I founded Salesforce when I was over 35.
And Reid Hastings, I founded Netflix when I was over 35.
And every single one of those people were very successful by the time they'd started those companies.
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