Super Thinking & Super Building
Two founder qualities to underwrite: super thinking (seeing ten steps ahead) and super building (throwing an idea away and rebuilding).
Two founder qualities worth weighting heavily when you back someone:
- Super thinking — reasoning many steps ahead; seeing where a decision leads ten moves out, not just the next one.
- Super building — the willingness and speed to throw an idea away and rebuild it from scratch when the evidence says so, instead of defending sunk work.
Why it matters: the first tells you they can read the board; the second tells you they’ll adapt when the board changes. A founder with both compounds — and compounding is the whole game.