Spandana Nakka

There's a pretty concerning trend I noticed around first-time founders.

Despite thousands of companies being founded every year, no founder has ever successfully been a first-time founder twice.

Really makes you think.

Only in SF: A friend of mine asked his best friend, who is a VC, to be the best man at his wedding. This is how he responded:

This is unbelievable: This week a 15-year-old sumo wrestler weighing just 125 lbs made his debut against a 330 lb, 21-year-old opponent.

Nobody gave him a chance. And he lost, obviously.

You can't expect to disrupt a much larger, more established incumbent just because you're lean. You also need to be AI-native.

What's unbelievable is that he didn't already know that.

I had lunch with a mentor yesterday and the main piece of advice they gave me was: "You need to stop treating every relationship like a transaction."

Pretty lousy ROI on that lunch if you ask me.

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