Startup #founders, Consider a co-founder with a wealth of #experience as an individual contributor

Name: Startup #founders, Consider a co-founder with a wealth of #experience as an individual contributor
Uploaded: 2023-03-22T02:54:50+00:00
Duration: 57 s
Channel: James Sinclair
Description: Short YouTube discussion (two speakers) arguing that while founders are often stereotyped as "young, dumb, arrogant" with bravado and naivety, there's an…

22 Mar 2023 · 1 min

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Short YouTube discussion (two speakers) arguing that while founders are often stereotyped as "young, dumb, arrogant" with bravado and naivety, there's an emerging trend of experienced, high-performing individual contributors (ICs) leaving larger companies—often after being pushed into management or via layoffs/severance—to become startup founders. These IC-turned-founders bring cash, experience, networks, and strong execution skills.

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You think of startup.
Founder, you think.
Young and dumb and.
Inexperienced.
And those are the attributes that make them so amazing.
It's their sheer.
Arrogance.
And sheer.
Bravado.
And sheer.
Naivety that actually make them such incredible founders. But one of the things that you're.
Starting to see in the market is.
Incredible high performing individual contributors that went.
To work at big.
Companies and suddenly were pushed kind of into management and.
Into team management and stopp being ICs, and ended up just.
Managing people. And they're going through the cycle right.
Now, where there are layoffs, where there's.
Opportunity.
To take a severance, where they're.
Thinking, maybe I should leave. And so you have these incredible, kind of experienced, high performing individual contributors joining.
The workforce.
As startup founders.
They have.
Cash, they have experience, they have network, and they know exactly.
How to execute.
Good luck.