Brex founder
How I managed to meet the founder of PayPal in a nutshell and get him to invest in my company
In 2016, when I arrived at Stanford, I already knew that I would eventually become an entrepreneur again, but at that point, I was just a lost person who didn't know anyone.
One thing I often heard was that recruiting was the most difficult task in Silicon Valley, due to the intense competition for top talent.
So, I decided that in order to learn how the recruitment process worked, I would apply as a potential engineer at various companies. That way, they would understand exactly how the process worked and could adopt best practices.
To my surprise, even though I have been a programmer for 7 years and having already founded and sold Pagar.me, because I was only in the first year of college, most companies did not even want to interview me.
The only exception was a company called Affirm, founded by Max Levchin, co-founder of PayPal.
I did the interview process, and when I got to the final interview with Max, I explained that I didn't want to work there, but that I was just learning about the recruitment process. He was impressed and said that if I started a company, I should let him know.
Months later, when we decided to found Brex, we sent him an email and he promptly invested.
Be creative and be open to opportunities for good things to happen to you.
How I managed to meet the founder of PayPal in a nutshell and get him to invest in my company
In 2016, when I arrived at Stanford, I already knew that I would eventually become an entrepreneur again, but at that point, I was just a lost person who didn't know anyone.
One thing I often heard was that recruiting was the most difficult task in Silicon Valley, due to the intense competition for top talent.
So, I decided that in order to learn how the recruitment process worked, I would apply as a potential engineer at various companies. That way, they would understand exactly how the process worked and could adopt best practices.
To my surprise, even though I have been a programmer for 7 years and having already founded and sold Pagar.me, because I was only in the first year of college, most companies did not even want to interview me.
The only exception was a company called Affirm, founded by Max Levchin, co-founder of PayPal.
I did the interview process, and when I got to the final interview with Max, I explained that I didn't want to work there, but that I was just learning about the recruitment process. He was impressed and said that if I started a company, I should let him know.
Months later, when we decided to found Brex, we sent him an email and he promptly invested.
Be creative and be open to opportunities for good things to happen to you.
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ํ ๋ชจ๋ ํ์ฌ์์ ์ฑ๊ณต์ ๊ฑฐ๋ ์ฐ์ ์ฐฝ์
๊ฐ๋ฅผ ์ต๊ทผ์ ์ธ์ฐ์ด ๋์ด ๋ง๋ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋๋ด๋ค.
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๊ทธ ๊ท์ธ์๊ฒ ๋ฐฐ์ด ๊ฐ๋ฅด์นจ์ ์ ๋ฆฌํ๋ค.
์ด ๊ธ์ด ์คํํธ์ ์์ ์๋ฅ๋ฐ๋ฅํ๋ ๋๊ตฐ๊ฐ์๊ฒ๋ ๋์์ด ๋ ์ ์์ผ๋ฆฌ๋ผ ์๊ฐํด ๋๋ช ์ฌ, ์ฌ๋ก๋ฅผ ์ง์ฐ๊ณ ๊ณต์ ํ๋ค.
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์ด ๊ธ์ ์๊ท๋ชจ ์คํํธ์ ํ์ ์ด๋ค. ์ฆ, ๋ชจ๋ ํ์ฌ์ ํต์ฉ๋์ง ์๋๋ค.
๋ฐ๋ผ์ ์ด ๊ธ์ ๋ด์ฉ๊ณผ ๋ณธ์ธ์ ์๊ฒฌ์ด ๋ค๋ฅผ ์ ์๊ณ , ๋ฐ๋ก ์ด ์์ ์ ์๋ค. ๊ฑฐ์ฌ๋ฆฌ๋ ๋ถ๋ถ์ด ์๋ค๋ฉด ๊ทธ์ ์๊ฐ๊ณผ ๊ฒฝํ์ด ๋ค๋ฅธ ๊ฒ์ด๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฐ ๋ถ๋ค์ ์์ ์ด ๋ฏฟ๋๋๋ก ํ๋ฉด ๋๋ค.
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[์คํํธ์ ์ด ์ฑ๊ณตํ๋ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ์ ๋ฑ ํ๊ฐ์ง - ์ต์ ์ ๋ค ํ๋ ์ฌ๋๋ค๋ก๋ง ํ์ ๋ชจ์ ์ ๋ ฅ์ ๋ค ํด ์ผํ๋ ๊ฒ์ด๋ค.]
- ์ ๋ ฅ์ ๋ค ํด ์ผํ์ง ์๋ ๊ธฐ์ ์ด ์ฑ๊ณตํ ํ๋ฅ ์ ์ ๋ก๋ค.
์ ๋ ฅ์ ๋ค ํด ์ผํด์ผ ์ฑ๊ณตํ ํ๋ฅ ์ด ์กฐ๊ธ์ด๋ผ๋ ์๋ค.
- ์ ๋๊ฐ๋ ํฐ ํ์ฌ๋ค๋ ์ ๋ ฅ์ ๋ค ํด ์ผํ๋๋ฐ, ์์ ํ์ฌ๊ฐ ์ ๋ ฅ์ ๋ค ํ์ง ์์ผ๋ฉด์๋ ์ฑ๊ณตํ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋ถ๊ฐ๋ฅํ๋ค.
- ์ ๋ ฅ์ ๋ค ํ๋ค๋ ๊ฒ์ ์ง์คํด์, ์ฅ์๊ฐ ๊ทผ๋ฌดํ๋ ๊ฒ์ด๋ค. ์ฆ ์ผ๊ทผ, ํด์ผ ๊ทผ๋ฌด๊ฐ ๋น์ฐํด์ผ ํ๋ค.
- ์๋ผ๋ฐธ ์ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ๋ ์ฌ๋์ ์ ๋ ฅ์ ๋ค ํ๋ ์ฌ๋์ด ์๋๋ค. ์๋ผ๋ฐธ ์ฑ๊ธธ ์ฌ์ ์๋ค.
- ์๋ผ๋ฐธ์ด๋, ์ง์คํด์ ์ผํ ๋ ์ผํ๊ณ ์ด ๋ ์ฌ๋ ๊ฒ์ด ๋ ๋ซ๋ค๋ ๋ง์ ์ด๋ถ์ฑ์ค์ด๋ค. ์ง์คํด์๋ ์ฅ์๊ฐ ์ผํ ์ ์๊ณ , ๊ทธ๋ฐ ์ฌ๋๋ค๋ก๋ง ํ์ ์ง์ ์ผํ๋ ์กฐ์ง์ ๋ง๋ค์ด์ผ ๊ฒจ์ฐ ์ฑ๊ณตํ ์ ์๋ค๋ ๋ง์ด๋ค.
- โ์ผ๊ทผํด๋ผโ๊ณ ๋งํด์ ์กฐ์ง์ด ์ ๋ ฅ์ผ๋ก ์ผํ๋๊ฒ ์๋๋ค. 100% ํ ๊ฒ์ 120%๋ก ๋ชฉํ๋ฅผ ์ก๊ณ ์คํํ๋ ๊ฒ์ด๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ฉด ์์ฐ์ค๋ฝ๊ฒ ์ถ๊ฐ๋ก ๊ทผ๋ฌดํ๊ฒ ๋๋ค.
- ์ฅ์๊ฐ ๊ทผ๋ฌดํ๋ฉด์ ์ค๋ ์ค๋ ํ๊ฑฐ๋ ๋ชฐ๋ ๋ด ์ง ํ๋ ํ์์ด ์๋ค๋ฉด, ๊ทธ ์ฌ๋์ โ์ต์ ์ ๋คํด ์ผํ๋ ์ฌ๋โ์ด ์๋๋ค. ์ฌ๋ ์๋ชป ๋ฝ์ ๊ฒ์ด๋ค. ๋ด๋ณด๋ด์ผ ํ๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฐ ์ฌ๋์ ์ ์ด์ ๋ฝ์ง ์์์ด์ผ ํ๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฐ ์ฌ๋์ ๋ฐ๊พธ๋ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ์ ์์ง๋ง, ๊ทธ๋ฐ ์ฌ๋์ ๋ฝ์ง ์๋ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ์ ์๋ค.
- ์ ๋ 7์๊ฐ ๋๋ฉด โ์ ๋ ์์ฌ ๋ญ ์ํฌ๊น?โ๋ผ๋ ๋ง์ด ์์ฐ์ค๋ฝ๊ฒ ๋์ค๋ ์กฐ์ง์ด ๋์ด์ผ ํ๋ค.
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[์ต์ ์ ๋ค ํ๋ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ด ๋ชจ์ฌ ์ ๋ ฅ์ ๋ค ํด ์ผํ๋ฉด ๊ธฐ์ ์ด ์ผ์ด๋๋ค.]
- ์ ๋ ฅ์ ๋ค ํ๋ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ด ๋ชจ์ธ ์กฐ์ง์์ ์ผํ๋ฉด ์ถ๊ทผํ ๋ ์ค๋ ๋ค. โ์ค๋์ ๋ ๋๊ฐ ์ด๋ค ๊ธฐ์ ์ ๋ณด์ฌ์ค๊น?โ๋ผ๋ ๋ง์์ด ๋ค๊ณ , ๊ทธ๋ฐ ๊ฒฝํ์ ๋งค์ผ ํ ์ ์๋ค.
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[์ฌ๋์ ๋ชป ๋ฐ๊พผ๋ค. ์ ๋ ฅ์ ๋ค ํ๋ ์ฌ๋์ ํ๊ณ ๋๋ ๊ฒ์ด๋ค.]
- ์ฌ๋์ ์ ๋ฐ๋๊ณ , ๋ชป ๋ฐ๊พผ๋ค. ์ผ๋ก ๋จธ์คํฌ๊ฐ ์๋ ์๋๋ค.
- ์ ๋ ฅ์ ๋คํ์ง ์๋ ์ฌ๋์ ์ต๋ํ ๋นจ๋ฆฌ ๋ด๋ณด๋ด์ผ ํ๋ค.
- ์ ๋ ฅ์ ๋ค ํ์ง ์๋ ์ฌ๋์๊ฒ ์ ์จ ๋ฐ๊พธ๋ ค๊ณ ๋ ธ๋ ฅํ๊ฑฐ๋, ์ค๋ํ๋ ๋ ธ๋ ฅ์ ํ๋ฉฐ ์ผ๊ตด ๋ถํ ํ์ ์๊ณ ๋ฏธ๋ จํ ์ง์ด๋ค. ์ข๊ฒ์ข๊ฒ ๋ํ๊ณ ๋นจ๋ฆฌ ๋ด๋ณด๋ด๋ ๊ฒ์ด ๋ต์ด๋ค.
- ํ ๋ช ์ด๋ผ๋ ์ ๋ ฅ์ ๋คํ์ง ์๋ ์ฌ๋(๋ณต๋ ์ด)์ด ์์ผ๋ฉด, ๋๋จธ์ง ์ฌ๋๋ค์ด ์ํฅ์ ๋ฐ๋๋ค. ๋ด๋ณด๋ด์ผ ํ๋ค. ๊ทธ ํ ์ฌ๋์ด ์ ์ฒด๋ฅผ ๋ง์น๋ค. ๊ทธ ์ฌ๋์ ๋ด๋ณด๋ด์ง ๋ชปํ๋ฉด ์กฐ์ง ์ ์ฒด๋ฅผ ๋ฆฌ์ ํด์ผ ํ๋ค.
- โ์ด์ฌํ ์ผํ์. ๋ ๋ง์ด ์ผํ์. ๋ ๋นจ๋ฆฌ ํ์. ์ต์ ์ ๋ค ํ์โ๋ ๋ง์ ํธํ๊ฒ ํ ์ ์๊ณ ๋์น๋ฅผ ๋ด์ผ ํ๋ค๋ฉด ์๋ชป๋ ์กฐ์ง์ด๋ค. ๋ฆฌ์ ํด์ผ ํ๋ค. ์กฐ์ง ๋ด์ ๋ณต๋ ์ด๊ฐ ์๋ ๊ฒ์ด๋ค.
- ๋ํ๊ฐ ํ๊ณ ์ถ์๊ฑฐ ๋ค ํ๊ณ , ๋ํ ์๊ฐ๋๋ก ์์ง์ฌ์ฃผ๋ ๊ณณ์ ๋ง๋ค์ด์ผ ์ฑ๊ณตํ ๊น ๋ง๊น ํ๋ค.
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[์ข์ ๊ฐ๋ฐ์๋ฅผ ๋ฝ์ผ๋ ค๋ฉด ๊ฐ๋จ์ ๊ฐ์ผ ํ๋ค.]
- ํ๊ตญ ์ค์ ์ ์ด์ฉ ์ ์๋ค. ์ง์์ ์์ค์ด ์์ ํ ๋ค๋ฅด๋ค.
- ๊ฐ๋จ์์ ํ์ ์ ์ ํ ํ ๋ค๋ฅธ ์ง์ญ์ผ๋ก ์ฎ๊ธฐ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๊ฐ๋ฅํ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ์ด๋ค.
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[์๊ฒฉ ๊ทผ๋ฌด๋ ํ์ด ์ ๋ ฅ์ ๋ค ํด ์ผํ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋์์ด ๋์ง ์๋๋ค.]
- ์๊ฒฉ ๊ทผ๋ฌดํ๋ฉด ์ด์จ๊ฑด ์กฐ๊ธ์ด๋ผ๋ ํ์ ํด์ง๋๊ฒ ์ฌ๋ ๋ง์์ด๋ค. (feat. โ๋ํ๋๋ ์ง์์ ์ผํ๋ฉด ํ๋ฒ์ด๋ผ๋ โ์นจ๋์ ๋๊ณ ์ถ๋คโ๋ผ๋ ๋ง์ ๋์์ง ์์ผ์ธ์?โ)
- ํ ์ฐจ์์์ ์๊ฒฉ ๊ทผ๋ฌด๋ ์ฌ๋ฌด์ค ๊ทผ๋ฌด์ ๋นํด ์ข์ ๊ฒ ์๋ค. ๋จ์ธ ํ ์ ์๋ค.
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[์คํก ์ต์ ์ ๋นก๋นกํ๊ฒ ์ฃผ๋๊ฒ ๋ง๋ค.]
- ์ฐฝ์ ์๋ ๊ท์คํ๊ฒ ์๊ฐํ์ง๋ง, ์ผ๋ฐ ํ์๋ค์ ๋ณด๋์ค ์ ๋๋ก ์๊ฐํ๋ค. ๊ทธ ๊ฐ์น๋ฅผ ์ ๋ชจ๋ฅธ๋ค.
- ๊ฐ์น๋ฅผ ๋ชจ๋ฅด๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์, ์คํก์ต์ ์ ๋ง์ด ์ค๋ค๊ณ ํด์ ๋๊ธฐ๋ถ์ฌ๊ฐ ๋์ง๋ ์๋๋ค. ์ ๊น ๊ธฐ๋ถ ์ข๊ณ ๋งํ ๋ฐ ๋ง์ด ์ค๋ดค์ ํจ๊ณผ๊ฐ ์๊ณ ๋ญ๋น๊ฐ ๋๋ค.
- ๋จ, ์คํก์ต์ ์ ๊ฐ์น๋ฅผ ์๊ณ ์์ฌ๋ด๋ ํ์์ด๋ผ๋ฉด ๋ง์ด ์คฌ์ ๋ ํฐ ๋๊ธฐ๋ถ์ฌ๊ฐ ๋ ์ ์๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฐ ์ฌ๋๋ค์๊ฒ๋ ๋ง์ด ์ค๋ ๋๋ค.
์ถ์ฒ : https://www.facebook.com/1169352004/posts/10230409567280881/?mibextid=cr9u03
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๊ทธ ๊ท์ธ์๊ฒ ๋ฐฐ์ด ๊ฐ๋ฅด์นจ์ ์ ๋ฆฌํ๋ค.
์ด ๊ธ์ด ์คํํธ์ ์์ ์๋ฅ๋ฐ๋ฅํ๋ ๋๊ตฐ๊ฐ์๊ฒ๋ ๋์์ด ๋ ์ ์์ผ๋ฆฌ๋ผ ์๊ฐํด ๋๋ช ์ฌ, ์ฌ๋ก๋ฅผ ์ง์ฐ๊ณ ๊ณต์ ํ๋ค.
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์ด ๊ธ์ ์๊ท๋ชจ ์คํํธ์ ํ์ ์ด๋ค. ์ฆ, ๋ชจ๋ ํ์ฌ์ ํต์ฉ๋์ง ์๋๋ค.
๋ฐ๋ผ์ ์ด ๊ธ์ ๋ด์ฉ๊ณผ ๋ณธ์ธ์ ์๊ฒฌ์ด ๋ค๋ฅผ ์ ์๊ณ , ๋ฐ๋ก ์ด ์์ ์ ์๋ค. ๊ฑฐ์ฌ๋ฆฌ๋ ๋ถ๋ถ์ด ์๋ค๋ฉด ๊ทธ์ ์๊ฐ๊ณผ ๊ฒฝํ์ด ๋ค๋ฅธ ๊ฒ์ด๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฐ ๋ถ๋ค์ ์์ ์ด ๋ฏฟ๋๋๋ก ํ๋ฉด ๋๋ค.
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[์คํํธ์ ์ด ์ฑ๊ณตํ๋ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ์ ๋ฑ ํ๊ฐ์ง - ์ต์ ์ ๋ค ํ๋ ์ฌ๋๋ค๋ก๋ง ํ์ ๋ชจ์ ์ ๋ ฅ์ ๋ค ํด ์ผํ๋ ๊ฒ์ด๋ค.]
- ์ ๋ ฅ์ ๋ค ํด ์ผํ์ง ์๋ ๊ธฐ์ ์ด ์ฑ๊ณตํ ํ๋ฅ ์ ์ ๋ก๋ค.
์ ๋ ฅ์ ๋ค ํด ์ผํด์ผ ์ฑ๊ณตํ ํ๋ฅ ์ด ์กฐ๊ธ์ด๋ผ๋ ์๋ค.
- ์ ๋๊ฐ๋ ํฐ ํ์ฌ๋ค๋ ์ ๋ ฅ์ ๋ค ํด ์ผํ๋๋ฐ, ์์ ํ์ฌ๊ฐ ์ ๋ ฅ์ ๋ค ํ์ง ์์ผ๋ฉด์๋ ์ฑ๊ณตํ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋ถ๊ฐ๋ฅํ๋ค.
- ์ ๋ ฅ์ ๋ค ํ๋ค๋ ๊ฒ์ ์ง์คํด์, ์ฅ์๊ฐ ๊ทผ๋ฌดํ๋ ๊ฒ์ด๋ค. ์ฆ ์ผ๊ทผ, ํด์ผ ๊ทผ๋ฌด๊ฐ ๋น์ฐํด์ผ ํ๋ค.
- ์๋ผ๋ฐธ ์ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ๋ ์ฌ๋์ ์ ๋ ฅ์ ๋ค ํ๋ ์ฌ๋์ด ์๋๋ค. ์๋ผ๋ฐธ ์ฑ๊ธธ ์ฌ์ ์๋ค.
- ์๋ผ๋ฐธ์ด๋, ์ง์คํด์ ์ผํ ๋ ์ผํ๊ณ ์ด ๋ ์ฌ๋ ๊ฒ์ด ๋ ๋ซ๋ค๋ ๋ง์ ์ด๋ถ์ฑ์ค์ด๋ค. ์ง์คํด์๋ ์ฅ์๊ฐ ์ผํ ์ ์๊ณ , ๊ทธ๋ฐ ์ฌ๋๋ค๋ก๋ง ํ์ ์ง์ ์ผํ๋ ์กฐ์ง์ ๋ง๋ค์ด์ผ ๊ฒจ์ฐ ์ฑ๊ณตํ ์ ์๋ค๋ ๋ง์ด๋ค.
- โ์ผ๊ทผํด๋ผโ๊ณ ๋งํด์ ์กฐ์ง์ด ์ ๋ ฅ์ผ๋ก ์ผํ๋๊ฒ ์๋๋ค. 100% ํ ๊ฒ์ 120%๋ก ๋ชฉํ๋ฅผ ์ก๊ณ ์คํํ๋ ๊ฒ์ด๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ฉด ์์ฐ์ค๋ฝ๊ฒ ์ถ๊ฐ๋ก ๊ทผ๋ฌดํ๊ฒ ๋๋ค.
- ์ฅ์๊ฐ ๊ทผ๋ฌดํ๋ฉด์ ์ค๋ ์ค๋ ํ๊ฑฐ๋ ๋ชฐ๋ ๋ด ์ง ํ๋ ํ์์ด ์๋ค๋ฉด, ๊ทธ ์ฌ๋์ โ์ต์ ์ ๋คํด ์ผํ๋ ์ฌ๋โ์ด ์๋๋ค. ์ฌ๋ ์๋ชป ๋ฝ์ ๊ฒ์ด๋ค. ๋ด๋ณด๋ด์ผ ํ๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฐ ์ฌ๋์ ์ ์ด์ ๋ฝ์ง ์์์ด์ผ ํ๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฐ ์ฌ๋์ ๋ฐ๊พธ๋ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ์ ์์ง๋ง, ๊ทธ๋ฐ ์ฌ๋์ ๋ฝ์ง ์๋ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ์ ์๋ค.
- ์ ๋ 7์๊ฐ ๋๋ฉด โ์ ๋ ์์ฌ ๋ญ ์ํฌ๊น?โ๋ผ๋ ๋ง์ด ์์ฐ์ค๋ฝ๊ฒ ๋์ค๋ ์กฐ์ง์ด ๋์ด์ผ ํ๋ค.
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[์ต์ ์ ๋ค ํ๋ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ด ๋ชจ์ฌ ์ ๋ ฅ์ ๋ค ํด ์ผํ๋ฉด ๊ธฐ์ ์ด ์ผ์ด๋๋ค.]
- ์ ๋ ฅ์ ๋ค ํ๋ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ด ๋ชจ์ธ ์กฐ์ง์์ ์ผํ๋ฉด ์ถ๊ทผํ ๋ ์ค๋ ๋ค. โ์ค๋์ ๋ ๋๊ฐ ์ด๋ค ๊ธฐ์ ์ ๋ณด์ฌ์ค๊น?โ๋ผ๋ ๋ง์์ด ๋ค๊ณ , ๊ทธ๋ฐ ๊ฒฝํ์ ๋งค์ผ ํ ์ ์๋ค.
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[์ฌ๋์ ๋ชป ๋ฐ๊พผ๋ค. ์ ๋ ฅ์ ๋ค ํ๋ ์ฌ๋์ ํ๊ณ ๋๋ ๊ฒ์ด๋ค.]
- ์ฌ๋์ ์ ๋ฐ๋๊ณ , ๋ชป ๋ฐ๊พผ๋ค. ์ผ๋ก ๋จธ์คํฌ๊ฐ ์๋ ์๋๋ค.
- ์ ๋ ฅ์ ๋คํ์ง ์๋ ์ฌ๋์ ์ต๋ํ ๋นจ๋ฆฌ ๋ด๋ณด๋ด์ผ ํ๋ค.
- ์ ๋ ฅ์ ๋ค ํ์ง ์๋ ์ฌ๋์๊ฒ ์ ์จ ๋ฐ๊พธ๋ ค๊ณ ๋ ธ๋ ฅํ๊ฑฐ๋, ์ค๋ํ๋ ๋ ธ๋ ฅ์ ํ๋ฉฐ ์ผ๊ตด ๋ถํ ํ์ ์๊ณ ๋ฏธ๋ จํ ์ง์ด๋ค. ์ข๊ฒ์ข๊ฒ ๋ํ๊ณ ๋นจ๋ฆฌ ๋ด๋ณด๋ด๋ ๊ฒ์ด ๋ต์ด๋ค.
- ํ ๋ช ์ด๋ผ๋ ์ ๋ ฅ์ ๋คํ์ง ์๋ ์ฌ๋(๋ณต๋ ์ด)์ด ์์ผ๋ฉด, ๋๋จธ์ง ์ฌ๋๋ค์ด ์ํฅ์ ๋ฐ๋๋ค. ๋ด๋ณด๋ด์ผ ํ๋ค. ๊ทธ ํ ์ฌ๋์ด ์ ์ฒด๋ฅผ ๋ง์น๋ค. ๊ทธ ์ฌ๋์ ๋ด๋ณด๋ด์ง ๋ชปํ๋ฉด ์กฐ์ง ์ ์ฒด๋ฅผ ๋ฆฌ์ ํด์ผ ํ๋ค.
- โ์ด์ฌํ ์ผํ์. ๋ ๋ง์ด ์ผํ์. ๋ ๋นจ๋ฆฌ ํ์. ์ต์ ์ ๋ค ํ์โ๋ ๋ง์ ํธํ๊ฒ ํ ์ ์๊ณ ๋์น๋ฅผ ๋ด์ผ ํ๋ค๋ฉด ์๋ชป๋ ์กฐ์ง์ด๋ค. ๋ฆฌ์ ํด์ผ ํ๋ค. ์กฐ์ง ๋ด์ ๋ณต๋ ์ด๊ฐ ์๋ ๊ฒ์ด๋ค.
- ๋ํ๊ฐ ํ๊ณ ์ถ์๊ฑฐ ๋ค ํ๊ณ , ๋ํ ์๊ฐ๋๋ก ์์ง์ฌ์ฃผ๋ ๊ณณ์ ๋ง๋ค์ด์ผ ์ฑ๊ณตํ ๊น ๋ง๊น ํ๋ค.
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[์ข์ ๊ฐ๋ฐ์๋ฅผ ๋ฝ์ผ๋ ค๋ฉด ๊ฐ๋จ์ ๊ฐ์ผ ํ๋ค.]
- ํ๊ตญ ์ค์ ์ ์ด์ฉ ์ ์๋ค. ์ง์์ ์์ค์ด ์์ ํ ๋ค๋ฅด๋ค.
- ๊ฐ๋จ์์ ํ์ ์ ์ ํ ํ ๋ค๋ฅธ ์ง์ญ์ผ๋ก ์ฎ๊ธฐ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๊ฐ๋ฅํ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ์ด๋ค.
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[์๊ฒฉ ๊ทผ๋ฌด๋ ํ์ด ์ ๋ ฅ์ ๋ค ํด ์ผํ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋์์ด ๋์ง ์๋๋ค.]
- ์๊ฒฉ ๊ทผ๋ฌดํ๋ฉด ์ด์จ๊ฑด ์กฐ๊ธ์ด๋ผ๋ ํ์ ํด์ง๋๊ฒ ์ฌ๋ ๋ง์์ด๋ค. (feat. โ๋ํ๋๋ ์ง์์ ์ผํ๋ฉด ํ๋ฒ์ด๋ผ๋ โ์นจ๋์ ๋๊ณ ์ถ๋คโ๋ผ๋ ๋ง์ ๋์์ง ์์ผ์ธ์?โ)
- ํ ์ฐจ์์์ ์๊ฒฉ ๊ทผ๋ฌด๋ ์ฌ๋ฌด์ค ๊ทผ๋ฌด์ ๋นํด ์ข์ ๊ฒ ์๋ค. ๋จ์ธ ํ ์ ์๋ค.
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[์คํก ์ต์ ์ ๋นก๋นกํ๊ฒ ์ฃผ๋๊ฒ ๋ง๋ค.]
- ์ฐฝ์ ์๋ ๊ท์คํ๊ฒ ์๊ฐํ์ง๋ง, ์ผ๋ฐ ํ์๋ค์ ๋ณด๋์ค ์ ๋๋ก ์๊ฐํ๋ค. ๊ทธ ๊ฐ์น๋ฅผ ์ ๋ชจ๋ฅธ๋ค.
- ๊ฐ์น๋ฅผ ๋ชจ๋ฅด๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์, ์คํก์ต์ ์ ๋ง์ด ์ค๋ค๊ณ ํด์ ๋๊ธฐ๋ถ์ฌ๊ฐ ๋์ง๋ ์๋๋ค. ์ ๊น ๊ธฐ๋ถ ์ข๊ณ ๋งํ ๋ฐ ๋ง์ด ์ค๋ดค์ ํจ๊ณผ๊ฐ ์๊ณ ๋ญ๋น๊ฐ ๋๋ค.
- ๋จ, ์คํก์ต์ ์ ๊ฐ์น๋ฅผ ์๊ณ ์์ฌ๋ด๋ ํ์์ด๋ผ๋ฉด ๋ง์ด ์คฌ์ ๋ ํฐ ๋๊ธฐ๋ถ์ฌ๊ฐ ๋ ์ ์๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฐ ์ฌ๋๋ค์๊ฒ๋ ๋ง์ด ์ค๋ ๋๋ค.
์ถ์ฒ : https://www.facebook.com/1169352004/posts/10230409567280881/?mibextid=cr9u03
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Paul Kang
์ฐฝ์
ํ ๋ชจ๋ ํ์ฌ์์ ์ฑ๊ณต์ ๊ฑฐ๋ ์ฐ์ ์ฐฝ์
๊ฐ๋ฅผ ์ต๊ทผ์ ์ธ์ฐ์ด ๋์ด ๋ง๋ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋๋ด๋ค.
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๊ทธ ๊ท์ธ์๊ฒ ๋ฐฐ์ด ๊ฐ๋ฅด์นจ์ ์ ๋ฆฌํ๋ค.
์ด ๊ธ์ด ์คํํธ์ ์์ ์๋ฅ๋ฐ๋ฅํ๋ ๋๊ตฐ๊ฐ์๊ฒ๋ ๋์์ด ๋ ์ ์์ผ๋ฆฌ๋ผ ์๊ฐํด ๋๋ช ์ฌ, ์ฌ๋ก๋ฅผ ์ง์ฐ๊ณ ๊ณต์ ํ๋ค.
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์ด ๊ธ์ ์๊ท๋ชจ ์คํํธ์ ํ์ ์ด๋ค. ์ฆ, ๋ชจ๋ ํ์ฌ์ ํต์ฉ๋์ง ์๋๋ค.
๋ฐ๋ผ์ ์ด ๊ธ์ ๋ด์ฉ๊ณผ ๋ณธ์ธ์...
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๊ทธ ๊ท์ธ์๊ฒ ๋ฐฐ์ด ๊ฐ๋ฅด์นจ์ ์ ๋ฆฌํ๋ค.
์ด ๊ธ์ด ์คํํธ์ ์์ ์๋ฅ๋ฐ๋ฅํ๋ ๋๊ตฐ๊ฐ์๊ฒ๋ ๋์์ด ๋ ์ ์์ผ๋ฆฌ๋ผ ์๊ฐํด ๋๋ช ์ฌ, ์ฌ๋ก๋ฅผ ์ง์ฐ๊ณ ๊ณต์ ํ๋ค.
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์ด ๊ธ์ ์๊ท๋ชจ ์คํํธ์ ํ์ ์ด๋ค. ์ฆ, ๋ชจ๋ ํ์ฌ์ ํต์ฉ๋์ง ์๋๋ค.
๋ฐ๋ผ์ ์ด ๊ธ์ ๋ด์ฉ๊ณผ ๋ณธ์ธ์...
Dear Founders,
Sales is dirty. ๐ฉ
Sales is dark. ๐
Sales is magic. ๐ฎ
You agree?
If so, you won't like what I'm about to say next:
At the top of every industry are leaders.
99.9% the leader's job is to sell, sell, sell.
Sell the vision. ๐
Sell the mission. ๐ฏ
Sell the company. ๐ผ
It's no different for founders.
My very first startup was a non-profit.
I really didn't like asking for $$$.
It was embarrassing.
Naturally, my startup failed.
It broke and deflated me.
"Perhaps entrepreneurship isn't for me?"
I needed a shift in mindset.
I vowed to get good at sales.
I changed my view of selling.
Sales is educational. ๐
Sales is empathetic. ๐
Sales is natural. ๐ฑ
It didn't happen overnight.
But I steadily improved.
Eventually, I fell in love with the art of selling.
Fast forward 10 years, I was:
โ closing $50M sized deals
โ raising $175M in funding
โ flipping my companies again and again.
Anyone can get good at sales.
It starts with the mindset.
Change it.
Yours truly,
David
Sales is dirty. ๐ฉ
Sales is dark. ๐
Sales is magic. ๐ฎ
You agree?
If so, you won't like what I'm about to say next:
At the top of every industry are leaders.
99.9% the leader's job is to sell, sell, sell.
Sell the vision. ๐
Sell the mission. ๐ฏ
Sell the company. ๐ผ
It's no different for founders.
My very first startup was a non-profit.
I really didn't like asking for $$$.
It was embarrassing.
Naturally, my startup failed.
It broke and deflated me.
"Perhaps entrepreneurship isn't for me?"
I needed a shift in mindset.
I vowed to get good at sales.
I changed my view of selling.
Sales is educational. ๐
Sales is empathetic. ๐
Sales is natural. ๐ฑ
It didn't happen overnight.
But I steadily improved.
Eventually, I fell in love with the art of selling.
Fast forward 10 years, I was:
โ closing $50M sized deals
โ raising $175M in funding
โ flipping my companies again and again.
Anyone can get good at sales.
It starts with the mindset.
Change it.
Yours truly,
David
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https://youtu.be/d6AEeD4rQBA?si=DRXonFA-SzGagz8B
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/174713.The_Lessons_of_History
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/174713.The_Lessons_of_History
YouTube
#342 The Lessons of History (Will & Ariel Durant)
What I learned from reading "The Lessons of History" (https://a.co/d/c1d1YqT) by Will and Ariel Durant.
https://www.founderspodcast.com/
Full Transcript and Show Notes: https://www.founderspodcast.com/episodes/25167264/senra-342-the-lessons-of-historyโฆ
https://www.founderspodcast.com/
Full Transcript and Show Notes: https://www.founderspodcast.com/episodes/25167264/senra-342-the-lessons-of-historyโฆ
Why Big Tech Can't Always Win: Rethinking Investor Questions Aditya Agarwal
Investors often pose a simplistic question: โWhy canโt Google, Amazon, Apple, or another Big Tech company do what you're doing?โ My response would be straightforward: these companies can build anything. They are conglomerates, and that's their purpose. If an investor genuinely believes that Big Tech will eventually build everything, they might as well stop investing altogether.
However, there are more productive ways to frame this question, which can help articulate a startupโs product strategy and go-to-market direction. Let's explore some better questions.
Firstly, a more insightful question would be: โCan you reach a reasonable scale within 3-4 years?โ Big companies inherently move slowly; their operational latency is significantly higher than that of a startup. As a startup, moving slowly means failure, but moving rapidly might give you a lead that larger companies cannot easily close.
This idea aligns with a classic concept in business: every startup's battle with an incumbent boils down to whether the startup can achieve distribution before the incumbent achieves innovation.
Another thought-provoking question is: โCan you implement growth and distribution strategies that a heavily scrutinized big company cannot?โ Large companies face immense oversight and regulatory constraints. As a startup, you have the flexibility to operate under the radarโat least for a whileโwithout the same level of scrutiny.
There are specific reasons why companies like Amazon couldn't build businesses like Uber, Airbnb, or DoorDash, despite having the right DNA and culture to do so. Likewise, there are reasons why they cannot build companies like Anduril.
A further question to consider: โCan you build something that is 10 times better than the status quo?โ In my experience, large companies can build solutions that are 2-3 times better, but rarely can they achieve something that is 10 times better.
To compete against a larger company with significant resources, you must offer an extraordinarily novel solution that justifies being 10 times better. This is rare, so be cautious not to fool yourself into believing you have this advantage without strong justification.
Another valuable question is: โWhat technology choices can you make today that are unconventional or even controversial, but could be the right ones five years from now?โ Big companies are often entrenched in their past decisions, burdened by their own inertia. As a startup, you are not weighed down by these legacy choices.
Finally, ask yourself: โIs there a high-risk, high-reward technical decision that you can leverage?โ This path requires conviction, a contrarian mindset, and the ability to be correct when others are wrong.
If an investor asks the lazy question of why Big Tech can't do what you're doing, challenge them to provide a more thoughtful perspectiveโor consider finding a different investor who understands the nuances of innovation and competition.
By shifting the conversation from "Why can't Big Tech do this?" to "How can we uniquely succeed where they cannot?" you can demonstrate your startup's distinct value and potential for disruptive innovation.
Investors often pose a simplistic question: โWhy canโt Google, Amazon, Apple, or another Big Tech company do what you're doing?โ My response would be straightforward: these companies can build anything. They are conglomerates, and that's their purpose. If an investor genuinely believes that Big Tech will eventually build everything, they might as well stop investing altogether.
However, there are more productive ways to frame this question, which can help articulate a startupโs product strategy and go-to-market direction. Let's explore some better questions.
Firstly, a more insightful question would be: โCan you reach a reasonable scale within 3-4 years?โ Big companies inherently move slowly; their operational latency is significantly higher than that of a startup. As a startup, moving slowly means failure, but moving rapidly might give you a lead that larger companies cannot easily close.
This idea aligns with a classic concept in business: every startup's battle with an incumbent boils down to whether the startup can achieve distribution before the incumbent achieves innovation.
Another thought-provoking question is: โCan you implement growth and distribution strategies that a heavily scrutinized big company cannot?โ Large companies face immense oversight and regulatory constraints. As a startup, you have the flexibility to operate under the radarโat least for a whileโwithout the same level of scrutiny.
There are specific reasons why companies like Amazon couldn't build businesses like Uber, Airbnb, or DoorDash, despite having the right DNA and culture to do so. Likewise, there are reasons why they cannot build companies like Anduril.
A further question to consider: โCan you build something that is 10 times better than the status quo?โ In my experience, large companies can build solutions that are 2-3 times better, but rarely can they achieve something that is 10 times better.
To compete against a larger company with significant resources, you must offer an extraordinarily novel solution that justifies being 10 times better. This is rare, so be cautious not to fool yourself into believing you have this advantage without strong justification.
Another valuable question is: โWhat technology choices can you make today that are unconventional or even controversial, but could be the right ones five years from now?โ Big companies are often entrenched in their past decisions, burdened by their own inertia. As a startup, you are not weighed down by these legacy choices.
Finally, ask yourself: โIs there a high-risk, high-reward technical decision that you can leverage?โ This path requires conviction, a contrarian mindset, and the ability to be correct when others are wrong.
If an investor asks the lazy question of why Big Tech can't do what you're doing, challenge them to provide a more thoughtful perspectiveโor consider finding a different investor who understands the nuances of innovation and competition.
By shifting the conversation from "Why can't Big Tech do this?" to "How can we uniquely succeed where they cannot?" you can demonstrate your startup's distinct value and potential for disruptive innovation.
Shopify ์ฐฝ์
์์ ์ธํฐ๋ทฐ๋ฅผ ๋ค์๋๋ฐ, ์ ๋ง ๋ฌด๋ฆ์ ํ ์น๋ฉด์ ๋ค์ ๋ถ๋ถ:
- ์ฐฝ์ ์๊ฐ 2008๋ ๋ฌด๋ ต์ ์ค๋ฆฌ์ฝ๋ฐธ๋ฆฌ์์ ํฌ์๋ฅผ ๋ฐ์ผ๋ ค๊ณ VC๋ฅผ ๋ง๋๊ณ ๋ค๋ ๋๋ฐ, ์ฌ๋ฌ๊ณณ์์ ๊ฑฐ์ ๋นํจ.
- ๊ฑฐ์ ํ ์ด์ ๋ฅผ ์ค๋ช ํด์ค VC ์: "๋๋ค ์์ฅ์ด(TAM์ด) ๋๋ฌด ์๋ค. ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ ์ฒด์ ์ผ๊ท๋ชจ ์ด์ปค๋จธ์ค ์ผํ๋ชฐ 4~5๋ง๊ฐ ๋ฐ์ ์๋๋๋ฐ, ๊ทธ๊ฑฐ ์ ๋ฐ์ ๋จน์ด๋ ํฐ ํ์ฌ ์๋จ"
- ์ต๊ทผ์ ๊ทธ VC๋ฅผ ๋ค์ ๋ง๋จ. VC๊ฐ: "์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๊ทธ๋ ๋๋์ฒด ๋ญ ๋์น๊ฑฐ์??" ๋ฌผ์ด๋ด.
- ์ฐฝ์ ์ ์: "๊ทธ VC๊ฐ ๋น์์ ๋์น๊ฑด ์์. ์ค์ ๋ก ๋น์์ ์์ฅ์ ๊ทธ ์ ๋ ์ฌ์ด์ฆ์์. ๊ทธ๊ฑด ๊ทธ ์์ (์๊ท๋ชจ ์ด์ปค๋จธ์ค ์ผํ๋ชฐ์ ์ด๊ณ ์ถ๋ค๋)๋ฅผ ๊ฐ ์ค์ ๋ก ์ด๋ฏธ ์์ฅ์ ๋ฐ์๋ฌ๋ค๊ณ ๊ฐ์ ํจ. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ๊ฐ์ค์ ๊ทธ ์๊ตฌ๋ ์ผ๋ง๋ ์ง ๋ ์๋๋ฐ, ๊ทธ๊ฒ ๋๋ฌด ์ด๋ ค์์ (friction์ด ๋์์) ์ํ๋ค๋๊ฒ. ์ง๊ธ์ Shopify ์ฌ์ฉํ๋ ์ผํ๋ชฐ์ด ๋ฐฑ๋ง๊ฐ๊ฐ ๋์."
- "์์ ์์ฅ์ ์ ๋ดํ๋ ์ฌ๋๋ค์: ๊ณ ๊ฐ์ ์์๊ฐ ์ธ์ ๋ ์ด๋ฏธ ์์ฅ์ ์ด๋ค์์ผ๋ก๋ ๋ฐ์๋์ด ์๊ณ , ๊ฑฐ๊ธฐ์ ๋ง๋ ๊ฐ์ฅ ์ข์ ๊ณต๊ธ์ ๋ง๋๋ ๋ฐฉ์์ผ๋ก๋ง ๋น์ฆ๋์ค๊ฐ ์๋ํ๋ค๊ณ ์๊ฐํ๋ ๊ฒฝํฅ์ด ์์."
- "ํ์ง๋ง ์ด๊ฑด ์ฌ์ค์ด ์๋. ๋ง์ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ, ์์์ ๊ณต๊ธ ์ฌ์ด์ ๋ง์ฐฐ (friction) ์ด ์์. ์์ฅ์ ์์๋ฅผ ํํํ์ง ๋ชปํ๋ค๊ณ ํด์, ์์๊ฐ ์กด์ฌํ์ง ์๋๊ฑด ์๋. ๊ทธ ๋ง์ฐฐ์ ์ ๊ฑฐํ๋ฉด ๊ฐ์๊ธฐ ์์๊ฐ ์๊ฒจ๋๋๊ฒ ์ฒ๋ผ ๋ณด์ผ์ ์๊ณ , ๊ทธ๊ฒ์ด ๋ง์ ์คํํธ์ ๋ค์๊ฒ ๊ธฐํ์."
์ด์ํ๋.
๋จ๋ค์๊ฒ ๋ณด์ด์ง ์๋ ๋ณํ vs ๋์๊ฒ ๋๋ฌด ๋ช ํํ ๋ณํ
- ์ฐฝ์ ์๊ฐ 2008๋ ๋ฌด๋ ต์ ์ค๋ฆฌ์ฝ๋ฐธ๋ฆฌ์์ ํฌ์๋ฅผ ๋ฐ์ผ๋ ค๊ณ VC๋ฅผ ๋ง๋๊ณ ๋ค๋ ๋๋ฐ, ์ฌ๋ฌ๊ณณ์์ ๊ฑฐ์ ๋นํจ.
- ๊ฑฐ์ ํ ์ด์ ๋ฅผ ์ค๋ช ํด์ค VC ์: "๋๋ค ์์ฅ์ด(TAM์ด) ๋๋ฌด ์๋ค. ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ ์ฒด์ ์ผ๊ท๋ชจ ์ด์ปค๋จธ์ค ์ผํ๋ชฐ 4~5๋ง๊ฐ ๋ฐ์ ์๋๋๋ฐ, ๊ทธ๊ฑฐ ์ ๋ฐ์ ๋จน์ด๋ ํฐ ํ์ฌ ์๋จ"
- ์ต๊ทผ์ ๊ทธ VC๋ฅผ ๋ค์ ๋ง๋จ. VC๊ฐ: "์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๊ทธ๋ ๋๋์ฒด ๋ญ ๋์น๊ฑฐ์??" ๋ฌผ์ด๋ด.
- ์ฐฝ์ ์ ์: "๊ทธ VC๊ฐ ๋น์์ ๋์น๊ฑด ์์. ์ค์ ๋ก ๋น์์ ์์ฅ์ ๊ทธ ์ ๋ ์ฌ์ด์ฆ์์. ๊ทธ๊ฑด ๊ทธ ์์ (์๊ท๋ชจ ์ด์ปค๋จธ์ค ์ผํ๋ชฐ์ ์ด๊ณ ์ถ๋ค๋)๋ฅผ ๊ฐ ์ค์ ๋ก ์ด๋ฏธ ์์ฅ์ ๋ฐ์๋ฌ๋ค๊ณ ๊ฐ์ ํจ. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ๊ฐ์ค์ ๊ทธ ์๊ตฌ๋ ์ผ๋ง๋ ์ง ๋ ์๋๋ฐ, ๊ทธ๊ฒ ๋๋ฌด ์ด๋ ค์์ (friction์ด ๋์์) ์ํ๋ค๋๊ฒ. ์ง๊ธ์ Shopify ์ฌ์ฉํ๋ ์ผํ๋ชฐ์ด ๋ฐฑ๋ง๊ฐ๊ฐ ๋์."
- "์์ ์์ฅ์ ์ ๋ดํ๋ ์ฌ๋๋ค์: ๊ณ ๊ฐ์ ์์๊ฐ ์ธ์ ๋ ์ด๋ฏธ ์์ฅ์ ์ด๋ค์์ผ๋ก๋ ๋ฐ์๋์ด ์๊ณ , ๊ฑฐ๊ธฐ์ ๋ง๋ ๊ฐ์ฅ ์ข์ ๊ณต๊ธ์ ๋ง๋๋ ๋ฐฉ์์ผ๋ก๋ง ๋น์ฆ๋์ค๊ฐ ์๋ํ๋ค๊ณ ์๊ฐํ๋ ๊ฒฝํฅ์ด ์์."
- "ํ์ง๋ง ์ด๊ฑด ์ฌ์ค์ด ์๋. ๋ง์ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ, ์์์ ๊ณต๊ธ ์ฌ์ด์ ๋ง์ฐฐ (friction) ์ด ์์. ์์ฅ์ ์์๋ฅผ ํํํ์ง ๋ชปํ๋ค๊ณ ํด์, ์์๊ฐ ์กด์ฌํ์ง ์๋๊ฑด ์๋. ๊ทธ ๋ง์ฐฐ์ ์ ๊ฑฐํ๋ฉด ๊ฐ์๊ธฐ ์์๊ฐ ์๊ฒจ๋๋๊ฒ ์ฒ๋ผ ๋ณด์ผ์ ์๊ณ , ๊ทธ๊ฒ์ด ๋ง์ ์คํํธ์ ๋ค์๊ฒ ๊ธฐํ์."
์ด์ํ๋.
๋จ๋ค์๊ฒ ๋ณด์ด์ง ์๋ ๋ณํ vs ๋์๊ฒ ๋๋ฌด ๋ช ํํ ๋ณํ
โค5
Why do we exist? Why do we work? Why pursue better technology? For our customers.
์ง์ ์ฌ์ ๋ ํด๋ณด๊ณ ์คํํธ์ ์ ํฌ์ํด๋ณด๋ฉด์ ๋ฐฐ์ด ๊ฒ ์ค ํ๋๋ ํ์ฌ๊ฐ ๊ตฌ์ฑ์๋ค์ ์์์คํ์ ๋๊ตฌ๋ก ๋ณํ๋ ์๊ฐ๋ถํฐ ๊บพ์ด๊ธฐ ์์ํ๋ค๋ ๊ฒ์ด๋ค.
์ด๋ฐ ํ์์ ์ฃผ๋ก ๊ธฐ์ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ ์คํํธ์ ์ ๋ง์ด ๋ํ๋๋๋ฐ, ํ์ฌ๊ฐ ์ด์ฌ์ ์๊ณ ์ฐ๊ตฌ์์ฒ๋ผ ๋ณํด๊ฐ๋ ๊ฑธ ๋ณด๊ฒ ๋๋ค.
์ด๋ฐ ํ์ฌ๋ค์ ํน์ง์ ๊ธฐ์ ์ฐ๊ตฌ์ ์๋ก์ด ๊ธฐ๋ฅ ๊ฐ๋ฐ์ ์น์คํ๊ณ ๊ธฐ์ ๊ด๋ จ ์ธ๋ ฅ์ ๊ณ์ ๋ฝ์ผ๋ฉด์ ์ ๋๋ก ๋ ์์ ๊ณผ ๋ง์ผํ ์ธ๋ ฅ ์ถฉ์์๋ ์ํํ ํ๋ค.
๋งค์ถ๊ณผ ์์ต์ ํ์ฌ๊ฐ ์ง์๊ฐ๋ฅํ๊ธฐ ์ํ ํ์์กฐ๊ฑด์์๋ ์ ๊ทธ๊ฑธ ๊ฐ๋ฐ์๊ฐ ๊ณ ๋ฏผํด์ผ ํ๋๋๋ ๋ถ์๊ธฐ๊ฐ ํ์ฌ์ ํผ์ง๊ธฐ ์์ํ๋ฉด ๋๋ถ๋ถ์ ๋์ดํฌ ์ ์๊ธฐ์ ์ด๋ฐ๋ถํฐ ๋ถ์๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ ๋ง๋๋ ๊ฒ์ด ํ์ํ๋ค.
SH Park
์ง์ ์ฌ์ ๋ ํด๋ณด๊ณ ์คํํธ์ ์ ํฌ์ํด๋ณด๋ฉด์ ๋ฐฐ์ด ๊ฒ ์ค ํ๋๋ ํ์ฌ๊ฐ ๊ตฌ์ฑ์๋ค์ ์์์คํ์ ๋๊ตฌ๋ก ๋ณํ๋ ์๊ฐ๋ถํฐ ๊บพ์ด๊ธฐ ์์ํ๋ค๋ ๊ฒ์ด๋ค.
์ด๋ฐ ํ์์ ์ฃผ๋ก ๊ธฐ์ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ ์คํํธ์ ์ ๋ง์ด ๋ํ๋๋๋ฐ, ํ์ฌ๊ฐ ์ด์ฌ์ ์๊ณ ์ฐ๊ตฌ์์ฒ๋ผ ๋ณํด๊ฐ๋ ๊ฑธ ๋ณด๊ฒ ๋๋ค.
์ด๋ฐ ํ์ฌ๋ค์ ํน์ง์ ๊ธฐ์ ์ฐ๊ตฌ์ ์๋ก์ด ๊ธฐ๋ฅ ๊ฐ๋ฐ์ ์น์คํ๊ณ ๊ธฐ์ ๊ด๋ จ ์ธ๋ ฅ์ ๊ณ์ ๋ฝ์ผ๋ฉด์ ์ ๋๋ก ๋ ์์ ๊ณผ ๋ง์ผํ ์ธ๋ ฅ ์ถฉ์์๋ ์ํํ ํ๋ค.
๋งค์ถ๊ณผ ์์ต์ ํ์ฌ๊ฐ ์ง์๊ฐ๋ฅํ๊ธฐ ์ํ ํ์์กฐ๊ฑด์์๋ ์ ๊ทธ๊ฑธ ๊ฐ๋ฐ์๊ฐ ๊ณ ๋ฏผํด์ผ ํ๋๋๋ ๋ถ์๊ธฐ๊ฐ ํ์ฌ์ ํผ์ง๊ธฐ ์์ํ๋ฉด ๋๋ถ๋ถ์ ๋์ดํฌ ์ ์๊ธฐ์ ์ด๋ฐ๋ถํฐ ๋ถ์๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ ๋ง๋๋ ๊ฒ์ด ํ์ํ๋ค.
SH Park
Ask their incentive. Find how I can benefit your interest, curiosity, money, and whatever.
Chang Kim
Which cold call request do you think has a better chance?
A: โHi John, Iโm a founder starting a new venture in (a field that John doesn't have interest in). Iโd love to pick your brain and get some advice. Do you have any time available this week?โ
B: โHi John, I was chatting with Sue (John's MBA classmate), and she suggested I reach out to you! Weโre starting a new company in (an area John is indeed interested in). By the way I found your recent thesis blog post very helpful in shaping our GTM focus. Iโd love to chat sometime in (ample heads up, e.g. in the next several weeks)โ
A doesn't consider John's benefit at all (why does he have to do this? what does he gain from this interaction?), it's only about you - therefore very selfish, disrespectful, and rude.
B is hard, because you have to put in the work. You need to do research and navigate your way in (common connections and interests). But this is considerate, and has much higher chance of leading to somewhere.
Problem is, way too many people still take the approach A..
Chang Kim
Which cold call request do you think has a better chance?
A: โHi John, Iโm a founder starting a new venture in (a field that John doesn't have interest in). Iโd love to pick your brain and get some advice. Do you have any time available this week?โ
B: โHi John, I was chatting with Sue (John's MBA classmate), and she suggested I reach out to you! Weโre starting a new company in (an area John is indeed interested in). By the way I found your recent thesis blog post very helpful in shaping our GTM focus. Iโd love to chat sometime in (ample heads up, e.g. in the next several weeks)โ
A doesn't consider John's benefit at all (why does he have to do this? what does he gain from this interaction?), it's only about you - therefore very selfish, disrespectful, and rude.
B is hard, because you have to put in the work. You need to do research and navigate your way in (common connections and interests). But this is considerate, and has much higher chance of leading to somewhere.
Problem is, way too many people still take the approach A..
์ฒํ๋ก์ ์ฝํ
์ธ ๋ชจ์๋ฐฉ
10๋
๋์ ๊ตฌ๊ธ CEO๋ฅผ ์ง๋ธ ์๋ฆญ ์๋ฐ์ด ๋ฉฐ์น ์ ์คํ ํผ๋ ๋ํ๊ต ์ปดํจํฐ ๊ณผํ ํํ์ ์ด์ฒญ๋ฐ์ ์ฐ์ค์ ํ๋๋ฐ, ๊ทธ๋์ ์ฌ๋ฌ ๊ฐ์ง ์์งํ ๋ฐ์ธ์ ํ๋ค๊ฐ ์ค๊ฐ์ ํ์๋ค์๊ฒ ์์ ์ด ํ ๋ง์ ์ ๋ ์ธ๋ถ์ ์ ์ถํ์ง ๋ง๋ผ๊ณ ์ง์งํ๊ฒ ๋งํ์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ ์ฃผ์ต ์ธก์ ์ด ํ์๊ฐ ์นด๋ฉ๋ผ๋ก ์ค์๊ฐ ์ค๊ณ๋๊ณ ์๋ค๊ณ ์๋ ธ๊ณ , ๊ทธ์ ํ์ ์ ๊ตณ์ด์ก์ต๋๋ค. ๋น๋ก ์คํ ํผ๋ ๋ํ๊ต๊ฐ ๋์ค์ ์ ํ๋ธ์์ ํด๋น ์์์ ์ญ์ ํ์ง๋ง, ์ด๋ฏธ ๋ง์ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ด ์ด๋ฅผ ์ ์ฅํ๋ค๊ณ .. ๋ด์ฉ ์์ฝ: โฆ
Lee Kuan Yew offers invaluable lessons for entrepreneurs. Highly recommended reading, along with his other works.
Forwarded from SNEW์ค๋ด
๋ฆฌ์ฝด์ ์ ๋์ผ๋ก ๋ณธ ์ธ๊ณ(2013)
์ฑ๊ฐํฌ๋ฅด์ ๊ตญ๋ถ์ธ ๋ฆฌ์ฝด์ ์ ์ด๋ฆฌ๊ฐ 30์ฌ๋ ๊ฐ ์ด๋ฆฌ์ง๊ณผ ์ธ๊ต์ ๋ฌด๋ฅผ ๋ด๋นํ๋ฉฐ ์ง์ ๋ณด๊ณ ๋๋ ๊ตญ๊ฐ๋ณ ํน์ง๊ณผ ๋ฏธ๋ ์ ๋ง๋ค. 11๋ ์ ์์ ๊ฐ์ํด๋ ์ธ์ฌ์ดํธ๊ฐ ๋๋จํ๋ค.
๋ฏธ๊ตญ, ์ค๊ตญ
https://m.blog.naver.com/s2s2s2189/223482560767?isFromSearchAddView=true
์ ๋ฝ, ์ค๋, ๋ถํ
https://m.blog.naver.com/s2s2s2189/223483643865?isFromSearchAddView=true
ํ๊ตญ, ์ผ๋ณธ, ์ธ๋
https://m.blog.naver.com/s2s2s2189/223487846759?isFromSearchAddView=true
์ฑ๊ฐํฌ๋ฅด์ ๊ตญ๋ถ์ธ ๋ฆฌ์ฝด์ ์ ์ด๋ฆฌ๊ฐ 30์ฌ๋ ๊ฐ ์ด๋ฆฌ์ง๊ณผ ์ธ๊ต์ ๋ฌด๋ฅผ ๋ด๋นํ๋ฉฐ ์ง์ ๋ณด๊ณ ๋๋ ๊ตญ๊ฐ๋ณ ํน์ง๊ณผ ๋ฏธ๋ ์ ๋ง๋ค. 11๋ ์ ์์ ๊ฐ์ํด๋ ์ธ์ฌ์ดํธ๊ฐ ๋๋จํ๋ค.
๋ฏธ๊ตญ, ์ค๊ตญ
https://m.blog.naver.com/s2s2s2189/223482560767?isFromSearchAddView=true
์ ๋ฝ, ์ค๋, ๋ถํ
https://m.blog.naver.com/s2s2s2189/223483643865?isFromSearchAddView=true
ํ๊ตญ, ์ผ๋ณธ, ์ธ๋
https://m.blog.naver.com/s2s2s2189/223487846759?isFromSearchAddView=true
NAVER
๋ฆฌ์ฝด์ ์ ๋์ผ๋ก ๋ณธ ์ธ๊ณ(์ค๊ตญ, ๋ฏธ๊ตญ)
์ฑ๊ฐํฌ๋ฅด์ ๊ตญ๋ถ๋ก ๋ถ๋ฆฌ๋ฉฐ ์ฑ๊ฐํฌ๋ฅด๋ฅผ ๊ฒฝ์ ๊ฐ๊ตญ์ผ๋ก ์ฑ์ฅ์ํค๋ ๋ฐ ๊ธฐ์ฌํ ์ง๋์ ์์ผ๋ก ์๊ฒฌ๋๋ ์ธ๊ณ์...
Early stage venture investing is like poker. You make a small initial investment, which is like the ante in poker, and you get a seat at the table. Then you watch the founder and team execute until they need more money. That is like the first set of cards you get. Then you get the chance to invest more money. That is like putting more chips on the table. This repeats a few more times and eventually the company succeeds or fails. That's like the river and the reveal.
In order to play the hand correctly, you need to have reserves. You can't invest all of your money in the ante. You need to have more chips so you can keep seeing more cards. A lot of investors, particularly newbies, don't understand this and run out of money too early in a deal and don't get to keep investing in their best companies. That's like not being able to play your best hands in poker. That's a disaster since you only get a few of those.
Reserves and recycling are two techniques that can significantly enhance the returns on a venture capital fund. We use both of these techniques at USV. They are built into our culture, our DNA, and our processes.
https://avc.xyz/reserves,-recycling,-and-returns?s=09
In order to play the hand correctly, you need to have reserves. You can't invest all of your money in the ante. You need to have more chips so you can keep seeing more cards. A lot of investors, particularly newbies, don't understand this and run out of money too early in a deal and don't get to keep investing in their best companies. That's like not being able to play your best hands in poker. That's a disaster since you only get a few of those.
Reserves and recycling are two techniques that can significantly enhance the returns on a venture capital fund. We use both of these techniques at USV. They are built into our culture, our DNA, and our processes.
https://avc.xyz/reserves,-recycling,-and-returns?s=09
avc.xyz
Reserves, Recycling, and Returns
A lot of folks who are new to the venture capital business and are building their own firms and funds will email or message me about rese...