On this special segment of The Full Ratchet, the following Investors are featured:
- Shashank Saxena of Sierra Ventures
- Ryan Delk of Primer
- Chris Rizik of Renaissance Venture Capital
We asked guests for the most important piece of advice that they’d share with folks early in their venture career.
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Transcribed with AI:
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Welcome back to TFR on today’s special segment, we ask guests for the most important piece of advice that they’d share with folks early in their venture career. Here’s the segment called key advice.
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On today’s special segment, we have Shashank Saxena of Sierra Shashank, if you could share one piece of advice with a young, new founder, what would you tell them?
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The highs are high, the lows are low. But the good news is neither of those are real, because the reality is somewhere in between, right? So founders sometimes get way too excited based on a good customer call or a deal that they close around. This is great, and we are on a path to world domination. And next thing you know, three hours later, they’ve lost another customer, or two of their best engineers have quit, or something else happened. And then they suddenly feel low, and they’re like, oh my god, this is terrible. I don’t know how I’m going to make it through this. And neither of those two are real. The reality is somewhere in between. So just stay level headed and even keel, because this is a very, very long journey, and the more the more grounded you stay, the better it is. So you’re not going to feel the emotional turmoil you’ll be doing yourself and your mental health a huge favor. Honestly, you
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on today’s special segment, we have Ryan Delk of primer. If you could share one piece of advice with a new founder, what would you tell them? It’s going to be harder than you think, but don’t quit. Good, simple and true.
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On this special segment, we have Chris ryzek of Renaissance. If you could share one piece of advice with a young, new invest investor, what would you tell them?
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It’s really what we talked about, invest with conviction, period. Have high conviction, but don’t get so emotionally involved that you don’t read the signals perfect. You
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that will conclude this installment of investor stories. If you’re enjoying the program and would like to see it continue, take a moment and leave a five star review in iTunes. Okay, that will wrap things up for today until next time over. Prepare, choose carefully and invest confidently. Thanks for joining me.
