Ali Tamaseb (@alitamaseb), investor at DCVC and author of Super Founders: What Data Reveals About Billion-Dollar Startups joins Erik to discuss:

- His learnings from gathering data on unicorns and comparing them to a random selection of startups that didn’t succeed.

- Why the age of a founder doesn’t correlate to success.

- Why successful founders aren’t necessarily solving personal problems and are often going through a deliberate ideation process.

- How data could make someone a better investor.

- Why competition is actually good for startups.

- Why successful founders are often opportunistic.

- Why there is resistance to these conclusions.

- Why being a solo founder doesn’t make you less likely to succeed.

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