Taylor Clauson, the Founder and Managing Partner at Abstraction Capital, talks about how he builds conviction from the founder’s ‘why story’. Taylor highlights the challenges faced by technical founders outside Silicon Valley and New York, and discusses what really affects alpha in a founder.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

[3:38] Why the ‘why story’ is more important than the pitch deck

[8:44] Bangalore is closer to San Francisco than Sacramento is.

[15:12] There’s always a chance to turn a ‘no’ into a ‘yes’.

[20:10] “I'm bullish on overlooked founders” - Taylor Clauson

The non-profit organizations Taylor is passionate about: Big Brothers Big Sisters

About Guest Speaker

Taylor Clauson is the Founder and Managing Partner of Abstraction Capital. Taylor invests in early-stage B2B companies that are building tools for developer productivity and software infrastructure. He spent 7 years at a Kansas-City based firm called OpenAir Equity Partners, investing in and building IoT and data companies. Also, he is a Kauffman fellow, class 23.

About Abstraction Capital

Abstraction Capital is a Kansas-based early-stage venture capital firm building tools for developers and software infrastructure. Abstraction also focuses on companies building dev tools and workflow automation that reduces the time required to build, deploy, and measure the performance of the software.

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