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Zach Perret

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462 total appearances

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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why Founder Mode is Dangerous & Could Encourage Bad Behaviour | Why Fundraising is a Waste of Time & OKRs are BS | Why Angel Investing is Bad for Founders to Do and the VC Model is on it's Last Legs with Zach Perret @ Plaid

I don't play anything. Sometimes I play static. And I just sit there and think. And I have a notebook, and I write stuff down. And this kind of self-sufficiency isolation I find gives me clarity in a place that otherwise I might not have it.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why Founder Mode is Dangerous & Could Encourage Bad Behaviour | Why Fundraising is a Waste of Time & OKRs are BS | Why Angel Investing is Bad for Founders to Do and the VC Model is on it's Last Legs with Zach Perret @ Plaid

I don't play anything. Sometimes I play static. And I just sit there and think. And I have a notebook, and I write stuff down. And this kind of self-sufficiency isolation I find gives me clarity in a place that otherwise I might not have it.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why Founder Mode is Dangerous & Could Encourage Bad Behaviour | Why Fundraising is a Waste of Time & OKRs are BS | Why Angel Investing is Bad for Founders to Do and the VC Model is on it's Last Legs with Zach Perret @ Plaid

I don't play anything. Sometimes I play static. And I just sit there and think. And I have a notebook, and I write stuff down. And this kind of self-sufficiency isolation I find gives me clarity in a place that otherwise I might not have it.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why Founder Mode is Dangerous & Could Encourage Bad Behaviour | Why Fundraising is a Waste of Time & OKRs are BS | Why Angel Investing is Bad for Founders to Do and the VC Model is on it's Last Legs with Zach Perret @ Plaid

Oh yeah, of course. Not many do. I feel very fortunate, though.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why Founder Mode is Dangerous & Could Encourage Bad Behaviour | Why Fundraising is a Waste of Time & OKRs are BS | Why Angel Investing is Bad for Founders to Do and the VC Model is on it's Last Legs with Zach Perret @ Plaid

Oh yeah, of course. Not many do. I feel very fortunate, though.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why Founder Mode is Dangerous & Could Encourage Bad Behaviour | Why Fundraising is a Waste of Time & OKRs are BS | Why Angel Investing is Bad for Founders to Do and the VC Model is on it's Last Legs with Zach Perret @ Plaid

Oh yeah, of course. Not many do. I feel very fortunate, though.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why Founder Mode is Dangerous & Could Encourage Bad Behaviour | Why Fundraising is a Waste of Time & OKRs are BS | Why Angel Investing is Bad for Founders to Do and the VC Model is on it's Last Legs with Zach Perret @ Plaid

It's a good question. Everybody says that having a kid teaches you time management, teaches you prioritization, teaches you coaching. I believe that all that stuff is really true. For me, the biggest change was personal. It just increases your capacity to love and recognize other people.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why Founder Mode is Dangerous & Could Encourage Bad Behaviour | Why Fundraising is a Waste of Time & OKRs are BS | Why Angel Investing is Bad for Founders to Do and the VC Model is on it's Last Legs with Zach Perret @ Plaid

It's a good question. Everybody says that having a kid teaches you time management, teaches you prioritization, teaches you coaching. I believe that all that stuff is really true. For me, the biggest change was personal. It just increases your capacity to love and recognize other people.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why Founder Mode is Dangerous & Could Encourage Bad Behaviour | Why Fundraising is a Waste of Time & OKRs are BS | Why Angel Investing is Bad for Founders to Do and the VC Model is on it's Last Legs with Zach Perret @ Plaid

It's a good question. Everybody says that having a kid teaches you time management, teaches you prioritization, teaches you coaching. I believe that all that stuff is really true. For me, the biggest change was personal. It just increases your capacity to love and recognize other people.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why Founder Mode is Dangerous & Could Encourage Bad Behaviour | Why Fundraising is a Waste of Time & OKRs are BS | Why Angel Investing is Bad for Founders to Do and the VC Model is on it's Last Legs with Zach Perret @ Plaid

My favorite thing about having a daughter is, yes, getting to love her and love the snuggles and all of the things that she does. But it was actually seeing my wife become a mother. and seeing the change that brought about in her and seeing her capacity change and that recognition of someone who you've known for so long, you think you know super well, and then you just see this totally new aspect.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why Founder Mode is Dangerous & Could Encourage Bad Behaviour | Why Fundraising is a Waste of Time & OKRs are BS | Why Angel Investing is Bad for Founders to Do and the VC Model is on it's Last Legs with Zach Perret @ Plaid

My favorite thing about having a daughter is, yes, getting to love her and love the snuggles and all of the things that she does. But it was actually seeing my wife become a mother. and seeing the change that brought about in her and seeing her capacity change and that recognition of someone who you've known for so long, you think you know super well, and then you just see this totally new aspect.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why Founder Mode is Dangerous & Could Encourage Bad Behaviour | Why Fundraising is a Waste of Time & OKRs are BS | Why Angel Investing is Bad for Founders to Do and the VC Model is on it's Last Legs with Zach Perret @ Plaid

My favorite thing about having a daughter is, yes, getting to love her and love the snuggles and all of the things that she does. But it was actually seeing my wife become a mother. and seeing the change that brought about in her and seeing her capacity change and that recognition of someone who you've known for so long, you think you know super well, and then you just see this totally new aspect.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why Founder Mode is Dangerous & Could Encourage Bad Behaviour | Why Fundraising is a Waste of Time & OKRs are BS | Why Angel Investing is Bad for Founders to Do and the VC Model is on it's Last Legs with Zach Perret @ Plaid

It made me think differently about what are the underlying aspects that other people in my life might have and how might they change over time and being more open and accepting of that. What is success to you today? That's a very hard question. I think we all land in the bigger, faster, more, like the relentless pursuit of doing more and so forth. I fall into that trap absolutely as well.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why Founder Mode is Dangerous & Could Encourage Bad Behaviour | Why Fundraising is a Waste of Time & OKRs are BS | Why Angel Investing is Bad for Founders to Do and the VC Model is on it's Last Legs with Zach Perret @ Plaid

It made me think differently about what are the underlying aspects that other people in my life might have and how might they change over time and being more open and accepting of that. What is success to you today? That's a very hard question. I think we all land in the bigger, faster, more, like the relentless pursuit of doing more and so forth. I fall into that trap absolutely as well.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why Founder Mode is Dangerous & Could Encourage Bad Behaviour | Why Fundraising is a Waste of Time & OKRs are BS | Why Angel Investing is Bad for Founders to Do and the VC Model is on it's Last Legs with Zach Perret @ Plaid

It made me think differently about what are the underlying aspects that other people in my life might have and how might they change over time and being more open and accepting of that. What is success to you today? That's a very hard question. I think we all land in the bigger, faster, more, like the relentless pursuit of doing more and so forth. I fall into that trap absolutely as well.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why Founder Mode is Dangerous & Could Encourage Bad Behaviour | Why Fundraising is a Waste of Time & OKRs are BS | Why Angel Investing is Bad for Founders to Do and the VC Model is on it's Last Legs with Zach Perret @ Plaid

Is it internally driven or is it externally driven? Do you have a threshold? That was a good one. That was not a good one. Or if you found a better interviewer than you, if everybody in the world was a better interviewer than you, even though you were still objectively really good, would that be okay?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why Founder Mode is Dangerous & Could Encourage Bad Behaviour | Why Fundraising is a Waste of Time & OKRs are BS | Why Angel Investing is Bad for Founders to Do and the VC Model is on it's Last Legs with Zach Perret @ Plaid

Is it internally driven or is it externally driven? Do you have a threshold? That was a good one. That was not a good one. Or if you found a better interviewer than you, if everybody in the world was a better interviewer than you, even though you were still objectively really good, would that be okay?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why Founder Mode is Dangerous & Could Encourage Bad Behaviour | Why Fundraising is a Waste of Time & OKRs are BS | Why Angel Investing is Bad for Founders to Do and the VC Model is on it's Last Legs with Zach Perret @ Plaid

Is it internally driven or is it externally driven? Do you have a threshold? That was a good one. That was not a good one. Or if you found a better interviewer than you, if everybody in the world was a better interviewer than you, even though you were still objectively really good, would that be okay?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why Founder Mode is Dangerous & Could Encourage Bad Behaviour | Why Fundraising is a Waste of Time & OKRs are BS | Why Angel Investing is Bad for Founders to Do and the VC Model is on it's Last Legs with Zach Perret @ Plaid

Competitive.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why Founder Mode is Dangerous & Could Encourage Bad Behaviour | Why Fundraising is a Waste of Time & OKRs are BS | Why Angel Investing is Bad for Founders to Do and the VC Model is on it's Last Legs with Zach Perret @ Plaid

Competitive.