A short transcript excerpt from a panel/conversation led by Jason M. Lemkin discussing the importance of founder experience and "second chances" in entrepreneurship. Speakers reflect on prior exits, intrapreneurial work, and the need to give diverse candidates repeated opportunities when hiring or investing. The piece emphasizes investor interest in sustained problem-focused work rather than one-off anecdotes.
Most of you are a second time entrepreneur in some sense.
Yes.
It's not just the dumbfounding story about pez. We want to hear how you've been working on this problem for years and whether it was truly you exited for 20 billion or it was just something you worked on as a side hustle or you worked on it somewhere else. If it's an intrapreneur or something, that's what's very compelling to investors.
I think about that all the time. That I should have done a better. I should have figured out how to get us and then I brought him back for the B and we passed again. So that was a big miss, not miss investing in square. Now the caveat to that is like white guys get second chances all the time. And so if you're hiring people and if you're building your company, just make sure that you are giving everybody a second chance. Just not certain. Not just certain people.
All right, last question.
So my business that's, you know, that it's like a marketplace where I'm connecting startups and small businesses with flex sales talents.
