Lessons - How Founders Become The Best Investors | Karl Alomar - Serial Entrepreneur, Investor & Managing Partner at M13
Success Story with Scott D. Clary
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🗓️ 19 February 2025
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | In this lesson's episode, discover how precise growth forecasting shapes scalable business strategies. |
| 0:05.0 | Learn why effective organizational structure and talent management are critical to sustaining rapid growth |
| 0:10.4 | and understand how strategic hires and clear communication transform cultural challenges into long-term success. |
| 0:17.0 | Oh, you're going to change. success. You mentioned a few things there. |
| 0:27.6 | So you mentioned, is it scalable and you forecast it out and the economics made sense, |
| 0:34.6 | obviously, and you were working with these people for two months, |
| 0:37.6 | so you started, you knew the people you were working with as well. |
| 0:41.7 | But one thing is interesting, so you modeled it out, and I'm assuming like regular forecast, |
| 0:47.4 | you figure out Tam, and you do all the things you'd figure out for a regular, for a regular model, |
| 0:52.5 | but how do you scale at that how what's the playbook |
| 0:56.8 | to scale at that at that velocity when you've never done it yourself before how do you forecast |
| 1:04.3 | out a model do this is still early days like now digital ocean competes with like a ws and and it's like a |
| 1:10.7 | very at that now it competes at that level |
| 1:13.0 | But when you're building out a competitor to AWS, I don't know how you would model out a similar growth trajectory when there's nothing else out there that has really achieved that scale before |
| 1:21.3 | Yeah, yeah |
| 1:24.1 | It's on the stage of the business |
| 1:25.6 | So again we do two different types of investment. |
| 1:29.0 | We'll invest in our core deals that actually have validation, which means they have data, |
| 1:32.7 | they have history. |
| 1:34.4 | And in those situations, which is probably, you know, we were in the earliest stages of |
| 1:40.0 | that as well as when I started working, but I could see it in real time. |
| 1:43.1 | Like I could see patterns being created. You recognize the patterns? You know, where are you sourcing your |
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