The best companies that we've invested in, the founders had an almost messianic belief that they were going to change the world, and they were irrationally persistent in the face of all evidence to the contrary. The ones that failed often had founders who were more rational — they saw the evidence, they updated, and they quit.
The thing that I found, that was quite surprising, is that the best founders are almost never the ones who can articulate most clearly what they do. The best founders are the ones who can articulate most clearly why they do it, and the ones who have a deep emotional connection to the problem they're solving.
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Underscored — save the words that stop you in your tracks.
