289. Data on the Key Traits of Billion Dollar Startups with the Author of Super Founders: What Data Reveals About Billion-Dollar Startups (Ali Tamaseb)

Ali Tamaseb of DCVC joins Nick to discuss Data on the Key Traits of Billion-Dollar Startups with the Author of Super Founders: What Data Reveals About Billion-Dollar Startups. In this episode we cover:

• Founders' history of building
• Second-time founders and their larger chance of being unicorns
• Super Founders bouncing to different industries isn't detrimental to their success
• Having domain experience does not correlate to success
• How non/technical founders partner with the same
• How proxy metrics do not define a good founder
• Painkiller or Vitamin Pill? Which holds success?
• How geography may be a dying metric for success
• How Super Founders tend to secure investment even in the opening rounds
• Which type of competition defines the unicorn
• Timing remains the most difficult thing to crack

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