Many moons ago before working in startups I had a cup of coffee on Wall Street. Well it was more like slightly to the north of Wall Street. Anyway, I got a small feel for the motion of the capital markets. Connecting the dots from how private companies grew into “small” or “mid” capitalized public companies. Hearing how public market investors evaluated companies on their way up and all that jazz.
Ah, another pandemic week of wild news. Through two of the most unrelated stories one can think of I was reminded of perhaps the most important thing when it comes to working and managing in startups. There’s the mission. The product. The team. But behind all that…there’s the amount of fucks you give.
I present to you two images:
Allow me to be the first person to acknowledge there are too many sports analogies in business. I once saw a VC tweet “skate where the ball is going”. Clearly someone forgot Wayne Gretzky was Puck Jesus.. This week though? I’ve got to write a little something about my guy Tom Brady and his incredible career.