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About Nate:
Nate is the Chairman and cofounder of New Founding, a cofounder of American Reformer, an investor and entrepreneur.
He makes early-stage venture investments and is the principal of NF Macro, a multi-strategy investment firm. He previously co-founded Trustwork, an online platform for property maintenance services, and InvestRes, a $1.5B real estate investment company.
In this episode we talk about:
How Should Founders Deal with Politics?
+ how startups are political by nature
(00:00) Intro + check this out! https://doola.com/exerton
(02:00) Who is @NateAFischer?
(04:24) What *really* is politics (for startups)?!
(06:57) Can founders stay out of politics? (the answer surprised me too!)
(10:49) Is politics really important at an early stage?
(14:51) Does looking at things politically differentiate things that are inherently political?
(17:43) How @brian_armstrong dealt incredibly with this!
(19:06) Why do founders like @elonmusk take a political stance even though they will get hate for it?
(25:09) The path of the founder vs the path of the company
(26:30) Difference in political ideologies + importance of it
(30:31) What classifies as a bad idea?
(32:57) How are founders bending reality? (in politics too)
(34:16) The match between the ideology of the founder and the firm when raising money
(37:44) Do some funds tend to lose on deals if they focus on ideologies? + how @foundersfund has dealt incredibly with this
(40:27) Do founders really have the leeway to take a political position when raising money?
(43:52) Change in ideologies in partnerships
