Founder readiness and commercial instinct matter most

You can't push PhDs from zero to founder. Creator Fund (@CreatorFund) CEO Jamie Macfarlane (@MacfarlaneJamie): "We've been unsuccessful when we found people who have never thought of starting a company and we pushed them. You've got to be 60, 70% of the way there." Big asks of founders: > somehow getting them to "100%" > how much to raise > first 18 months shenanigans > cap table > hiring > pitch simplification "It's dangerous to invest if someone doesn't have a commercial bone in their body. We're interested in, are you 60% of the way there? You've built something, you know it's commercial, but you just don't know where to start."