Ramtin Naimi
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first heard Jul 2025
last heard Jul 2025
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It's hard for me to believe if I meet somebody
that if I can't get a sense that this person is special or has been special or has done impressive things in their life, that the first impressive thing they're ever going to do is this company that they're asking me to invest in.
So do you literally ask them, tell me the most impressive things you've done?
I ask about what are entrepreneurial things you've done.
Tell me your story.
If there is something impressive in their story, they will make sure it stands out.
Sometimes the special thing is they got into the school of their dreams.
So did everybody else that went to that school.
So like something that's truly different, I'm looking for.
Resilience is key.
That's a little harder to discern, especially with the age of founders that I back.
Not everybody's had a situation where they've had to deal with hardship to develop that resilience.
But some of the founders in our portfolio that have done pivot after pivot after pivot have survived for years.
And then
ultimately started a company that had nothing to do with their first company, ended up being very, very successful.
Now, I'm not saying that every founder should stick with every single company over a certain period of time.
There's founders who should absolutely stop working on a company and either return cash or find a soft landing or something and move on.
But there are other founders who will just do these non-local pivots.
I think the local pivot is what kills companies.
And
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