Backing People, Not Companies
“Well, the short answer is not companies' people. We're looking to meet the most insane and intelligent and amazing people we can.”
Transcript
Sure. Well, the short answer is not companies' people. We're looking to meet the most insane and intelligent and amazing people we can, and we bring them together in a room to work together. My experience starting companies and working with founders has led me to this realization that being a founder's
a lonely journey, and at those moments before you get funded, there's no culture, there's no community, there's no cap table or capital, and there's certainly no co-founders usually. It's like, what do you do when you're in that stage? And what Antler aspires to do is create that destination,
that place where the highest octune people can come together, work on their ideas, meet their co-founders, be in a culture of high execution, and I call them maniacs, but being a maniac environment,