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  1. 20VC with Harry Stebbings1h 7m

    Keith Rabois & Mike Shebat: Creating an Olympian Mindset to Work Ethic| E1087

    Keith Rabois, Mike Shebat, Harry Stebbings

    Trava CEO Mike Kessler and Founders Fund GP Keith Rabois champion an "Olympian work ethic" characterized by strict in-office hours, equity-focused compensation, and a sports-team performance model that rigorously excludes underperformers. Their shared investment philosophy rejects remote-first structures for most ventures, arguing instead that distributed teams rarely build generational companies, while prioritizing first-time founders with untested ambition over experienced repeat founders. Targeting a trillion-dollar valuation within a decade, the pair aims to eliminate global labor constraints by scaling a demand-constrained marketplace driven by high-intensity recruitment and disciplined cultural preservation.