Super Founders: What Data Reveals About Billion-Dollar Startups
Most of the best deals that we have done would not have survived the scrutiny of a partnership.
Tarang Shah, Tarang Shah, Sheetal Shah • Venture Capitalists at Work: How VCs Identify and Build Billion-Dollar Successes
In this book, you'll hear the founders' stories in their own words. Here, I want to share some of the patterns I noticed. When you're interviewing a series of famous startup founders, you can't help trying to see if there is some special quality they all have in common that made them succeed. What surprised me most was how unsure the founders seeme
... See moreJessica Livingston • Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
If you focus on diversification instead of single-minded pursuit of the very few companies that can become overwhelmingly valuable, you’ll miss those rare companies in the first place.
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
Of these companies that become well financed we only need 15–25% of those to pan out to return 2–3x the fund. But this is all driven on the assumption that we didn’t write a $20 million check out of the gate, that we didn’t pay a $100 million pre-money valuation and that we took a meaningful ownership stake by making a very early bet on founders an... See more