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.Cobi Blumenfeld-Gantz on the why he is building a company for seniors in America: “There is the proximate acute problem of choosing the right healthcare provider and then there is a question of purpose and security in what is becoming a longer and longer chapter of their life,

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.Cobi Blumenfeld-Gantz on the why he is building a company for seniors in America: “There is the proximate acute problem of choosing the right healthcare provider and then there is a question of purpose and security in what is becoming a longer and longer chapter of their life,

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And you don’t need to have a healthcare background to solve Medicare for US seniors. If we waited for aeronautical engineers to build the airplane, we would still be traveling the world on ships.

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.Cobi Blumenfeld-Gantz was actually better suited to solve the problem because he had no background in healthcare. He also talks about how founder-market-fit is a bullshit concept. Full Ep:

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You can have a billionaire cofounder like Vivek Ramaswamy, have Peter Thiel and JD Vance on the board and still struggle to fundraise if investors disagree with your thesis of the problem and your vision. Well in some cases it does happen, not always. Cobi on fundraising

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You can have a billionaire cofounder like Vivek Ramaswamy, have Peter Thiel and JD Vance on the board and still struggle to fundraise if investors disagree with your thesis of the problem and your vision. Well in some cases it does happen, not always. Cobi on fundraising

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Who else cofounded a company with a billionaire cofounder and struggled to fundraise? If you didn’t struggle, probably weren’t ambitious enough

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If we kept waiting for aeronautical engineers, we might have never had the airplane. You do not need to come from the industry to build a company in that industry. The best companies will likely be built by founders who come in with a naive mind and no baggage. Cobi on why

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If we kept waiting for aeronautical engineers, we might have never had the airplane. You do not need to come from the industry to build a company in that industry. The best companies will likely be built by founders who come in with a naive mind and no baggage. Cobi on

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There is also the overlapping part of the Venn Diagram where all of this is true. People have said all sorts of variations of this but I will repeat anyway for the timeline. Essentially one should do some introspection around what the market values, what is play for you/work

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Probably the most timeless book on how to think about investing, founding and operating. I think most people in the startup world have read the book but not all understand the book. And maybe it takes taking a shot at building something, following conventional wisdom, falling