Building the Builders
Recently I got to spend a week in intimate coaching conversations with a batch of brilliant, young, insanely ambitious, insanely stressed-out founders as they prepared to pitch a room full of San Francisco’s most formidable investors at Entrepreneur First (EF)’s inaugural US Demo Day.
They all rocked their pitches. I’m still reeling from the sheer elation—one part maternal-ish pride and two parts childlike wonder—of watching them rock their pitches. Beyond the sheer delight of seeing them channel their stage nerves into the glorious recognition of what those 90 seconds could unlock for them, I knew I was getting a front-row seat to the future. A future that is “brighter, and [more] full of ‘tech magic’, than we can probably imagine right now”; a future built by immigrants from around the world, catalyzed by the culture and capital of Silicon Valley; a future that is magnificently, mind-blowingly, uncontroversially good.
Watch the whole event here (starting with Reid Hoffman’s inspiring intro) anytime you need a re-infusion of hope and optimism. Seriously, I highly recommend it.
