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VC Uncovered · Tarun Gupta, Jump Capital

The Saturday Morning Call Test

“If this founder called me on Saturday morning, I'm excited to go solve this problem with them and figure it out across the weekend.”

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ourselves and our LPs, that is a very core component of it. But life short, you only want to work with people that you enjoy spending time with. And I think that's another thing that I look for and think through is, hey, if this founder called me on Saturday morning, Mike's excited to go solve this problem with them and figure

it out across the weekend. And if that doesn't energize me, I'm in the wrong business of venture generally , you know, you need to back the people that you'd be willing to spend time with, you 're excited to spend time with and you want to go solve problems. And I think just a framing of if you would quit your job for them, helps you

try and get all that in a way that forces me to really look hard in the mirror.

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