EP #20 - Cédric Waldburger: What Makes a Good Startup Team

Timestamps  

1:23 - Team-related mistakes

4:50 - Giving guidance vs offering freedom to employees

7:11 - The company lifecycle

12:55 - The ideal co-founding relationship

34:25 - Sendtask and remote teams

Biography

Cédric is a Venture Capitalist and founder of Dfinity, Tenderloin Ventures and Sendtask. He started his first venture – Mediasign, a digital branding agency – in high school. He went on to study electrical engineering at the Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) and spent the following years in different jobs in Hongkong, New York and Berlin. Since 2013, he is active as a venture capitalist through his company Tenderloin Ventures. With Dfinity, he became involved in his first blockchain project. Cedric is an avowed minimalist, owning only 64 things. He’s known for his strongly optimized lifestyle, following what he calls the “90 review and preview”.