Gokul Rajaram: belief

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…Are there other things like that that you look for that are just like, oh, wow, I really need to invest in this? The ability to hire talent before even you have our ability that if you can show me that you have this set of amazing people lined up to join you or that you have commitments or even your founders. I mean, the other thing I look for is definitely two person founding team, at least two is the ideal. I've seen solo founders. I'm very nervous about because I think no one person has all the skills needed to start a company. And it's also a lot of things to do. So I do like to see a really good mix of basically a builder and a seller or a hustler and a hacker, whatever you call them. And I think that two person, I really feel comfortable. However good the one person is, I just feel it's, there are obviously one person founding teams that have worked well, but I think the two or three person founding teams, I feel much two is the ideal number. So I look for the two person founding team, complimentary skills. These are really, really handy rules of thumb that everybody could use. How do you find time to do this? So you have a full-time job. I imagine it's extremely demanding. And then you're also doing a lot of investing. For folks that are thinking about doing this on the side, how do you time box this and keep it sustainable and not just go...…

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