E436: Nnamdi Okike on Billionaires, Founder Psychology & the Venture Capital Bubble

645 Ventures systematizes founder-psychology and market-inflection analysis to find outlier, non-obvious startups while warning oversized seed rounds now threaten early-stage discipline.

• Quantifying founder quality: 645 Ventures uses "purity motivation" scoring (missionary vs. mercenary) and multi-meeting founder analytics, citing a 4-5% capital loss ratio.
• Non-central-casting bets win: ExactTarget, bootstrapped in Indianapolis with no VC interest, sold to Salesforce for ~$2B; Okike says the best deals hide off the beaten path.

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