Attributes of a Founder: 1. Deep, systematic thinking 2. Understand the market and product and its implications better than competitors 3. Learn and adapt very quickly to new data and discern what's important among the noise 4. Strong leadership to recruit and retain competent team to build a culture of personal values that are intuitively understood by company 5. Objective decision-making skills to make non-emotional moves yet passionate about what they do #business