Unusual velocity
The distance covered with the time, money, and permission available.
The market rewards founders once the story becomes easy to understand. We care about the signals that show up before consensus.
Great founders often look unusual before they look inevitable. Their market may seem too small. Their background may not fit the pattern. Their intensity can be mistaken for impracticality.
By the time every signal is legible, the asymmetry is gone. We want to understand the person and the insight while both are still easy to underestimate.
The distance covered with the time, money, and permission available.
The story of their career folds into one problem they would keep working on even when the applause disappears.
Exceptional people choose to follow before status makes the choice easy.
A truth learned through direct experience—not borrowed from the market.
Checks range from $5–25K personally to $100–250K through a syndicate of 1,000 LPs.
“It is given to human beings who work hard at it—who look and sift the world for a mispriced bet—that they can occasionally find one.”
— Charlie Munger
Tell us the part the market has not understood yet.