Major green flags in a founder:
1/ crazy grit, won’t give up
2/ started building before pitching investors
3/ constantly moving, constantly generating new information
4/ deeply technical
5/ not addicted to founder cosplay
6/ obsessively talks to users / can’t stop talking to customers
7/ finds creative, experimental marketing channels
8/ genuinely cares about what they’re building
9/ never blames others or external factors
10/ tinkered with projects obsessively
11/ constantly comes up with interesting ideas
12/ knows their metrics cold
13/ doesn’t chase hype, chases truth
14/ excellent storyteller, can sell the vision to hires, investors, and customers
15/ can clearly explain what they are building in one sentence
If you hit a good chunk of these, tell me what you are building.
If your solution to system failures is "tell developers to be more careful," you don't have an engineering strategy. You have a wish. And wishes don't scale. As humans, we are fundamentally fallible. We make mistakes.
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