Ali Rohde
Ali Rohde

About

I'm the cofounder/GP at early-stage VC fund Outset Capital.

I write Ali Rohde Jobs, a 25K+ subscriber newsletter sharing Chief of Staff, BizOps, and VC openings. I helped build VC Sheet for founders to find the best-fit investors for them. I run Outset Pod.

Favorite quotes

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. - John Gall

This thing we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down. - Mary Pickford

If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter. - Pascal

Plans are useless, but planning is indispensable. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

The surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others. - Martin Luther King Jr.

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take. - Wayne Gretzky (Michael Scott)

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. - Robert J. Hanlon

To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is like choosing immobility as a means of transportation. - Yann Martel

You can just do things. - Sam Altman

Perfection is achieved, not when there's nothing more to add, but when there's nothing left to take away. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough. - Alain de Botton

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena. - Theodore Roosevelt

Pessimists sound smart. Optimists make money. - Nat Friedman

I try to invest in businesses that are so wonderful that an idiot can run them. Because sooner or later, one will. - Warren Buffett

Give me six hours to chop down a tree, and I'll spend the first four sharpening the axe. - Abraham Lincoln

Try to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very smart. - Charlie Munger

Being busy is a form of laziness — lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. - Tim Ferriss

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Not writing is worse.

If it's dumb and it works it's not dumb.

You waste years by not being able to waste hours. - Amos Tversky

Your boos mean nothing, I've seen what makes you cheer. - Rick Sanchez

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