What Makes a Maniac Founder
“A maniac is not necessarily one thing... it's that visceral experience you get with someone that they are out there doing their life's work.”
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How are you defining maniacs? How are you defining that type of ilk? - Yeah, just a word I use. I'm not sure there's a clear definition. And the reason I use that word is 'cause it has this like visceral experience behind it, right? Like when you say maniac, people get this like, you know, there's something about it.
And the same is true when you work with people in person. You get this sense of them. They could be a 10x engineer, 10x sales person. They could be someone with incredible resilience. They could be insanely creative. They could be putting in seven days a week in work.
A maniac is not necessarily one thing. To me, it's that visceral experience you get with someone that they are out there doing their life's work, putting everything they have into it, making incredible progress, inspiring people to join them, inspiring investors to back them to other people