Gokul Rajaram: belief

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…And this advice is for, you're saying new people, but also maybe people kind of further along in their career. I think unless you know the founders very, very, very well, joining a very early-stage, early-stage company is, especially now for the next one or two years, it's going to be a brutal market out there. So you've got to be really careful. There's going to be the days of raising a round a few weeks after raising a prior round of a couple of months without much movement, without much company progress are probably gone for most companies. And we all have seen now companies that have raised rounds at crazy valuations deflate or die quickly. And so deaths happen very quickly. You might just join and your company could die a week from now. So I think the other one is to really look at the financials and really understand that better. Awesome. That's really helpful advice. You mentioned Brian Armstrong, Brian Chesky, and some of the other folks that you have worked with and gotten to know. I'm curious, of the companies you've worked at, say now Coinbase on the board, Google, Facebook, Square, DoorDash, what are some things that have kind of stuck with you? Things you've taken away about maybe how to run a company, build a product? or anything else that's kind of just taught you a lesson about how to do what you're doing?…

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