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The most enjoyable part of working in venture capital is constantly meeting smart and obsessive people. This isn’t limited to venture as an industry, but because startups are so arduous and, by definition, hack on the edge of what’s possible — there tends to be a high concentration or density of obsessive people. Obsession is sometimes the only thing that can keep something alive artificially beyond the ‘shiny idea lifespan’, long enough to generate momentum. Smart and obsessive people are, in fact, widely distributed. Artists, writers, architects, quants, hackers, engineers, product marketers, designers, medics, sportsmen etc etc. The common thread is a commitment to taste and execution. Taste as in devotion to figure out what good looks like, and execution to engineer emergence of said goodness. I used to write for a student food magazine in college. Like anyone, I thought I enjoyed food. It turns out, I wasn’t obsessed with food. This became starkly obvious when I witnessed people w

obsessive forces of nature Nix Jun 05, 2024 163 9 39 Share Les Muses veillant sur la vallée, Henri Martin The most enjoyable part of working in venture capital is constantly meeting smart and obsessive people. This isn’t limited to venture as an industry, but because startups are so arduous and, by definition, hack on the edge of what’s possible — there tends to be a high concentration or density of obsessive people. Obsession is sometimes the only thing that can keep something alive artificially beyond the ‘shiny idea lifespan’, long enough to generate momentum. Smart and obsessive people are

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