David Senra: evaluation

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…Which is another way of saying, do something your competitors don't, aren't, or can't. Or Edwin Land. Edwin Land plays a huge role in my life. He found the Polaroid. He's the hero because he said, I have a personal model, it may not fit anybody else, don't do anything somebody else could do. I was like, okay, I don't think anybody else could do Founders the way I do it, so I'm just going to do this. My point being is, how would you do it today? It would look very much like what I think you guys are building. I'm not an investor, so I don't know anything about your world. But I'd spend my time reading and learning about business history. Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett did that. Every single investor you guys have probably read about does that all the time. They read constantly. I would share what I know, that's going to build my network of other people. Those people who are eventually going to make deals, and then I have this huge advantage that you couldn't even do 10 years ago or 15 years ago because there's no such thing as a podcast. Now I could record all the stuff I'm learning, We should say, there have been iterations of this. This is how Union Square Ventures became Union Square Ventures or Foundry Group became Foundry Group because of blogging and then Brad and Jason writing the book on venture deals.…

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