Exact(1)
Asked about the right founder DNA, Graham also offers up an unsurprising insight but one we personally hadn't heard him say before, which is that YC isn't so crazy about funding people who've worked at "certain" large companies for long periods, as it has learned over the years that they aren't natural founders.
Similar(59)
The theory we develop applies to certain laboratory crosses as well as to natural founder populations.
Eat Natural's founders, Praveen Vijh and Preet Grewal, say their successful partnership evolved from a lifelong friendship and trial-and-error attempts to create a healthy snack food.
Tindemans was a natural co-founder of the European right's attempt to establish a multinational political group, the European People's party (EPP) – from which David Cameron withdrew Britain's Tories in 2009 – and, increasingly, his attentions turned to the Strasbourg parliament.
We set up third generation offspring from paired inbred and outbred patrilines under semi-natural conditions (founders are F3 offspring in Figure 1).
Genetic differentiation usually takes places when individuals of a population get separated and diverge from each other driven by natural selection, founder effects, genetic drift and the lack of intermixture between the populations.
It was natural that the founders would be suspicious.
But with an abundance of regular folks and highly skilled trainers on Fitocracy already, the evolution towards paid group classes seemed natural to the founders.
It's not natural for a founder at stage one to know how he'll grow from zero to billion.
"You see, having design software alone doesn't make it easy to produce great designs – but, if you can piggyback off creative friends with the remix feature you can produce designs above your natural ability," said founder Joe Wilson.
Statistical tests on the pattern and rate of evolution of phenology helped distinguish natural selection from founder effects and random genetic drift as possible explanations of the evolution of development time.
Write better and faster with AI suggestions while staying true to your unique style.
Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com