Ali Rohde
Ali Rohde

About

Ali is cofounder/GP at early-stage VC fund Outset Capital.

I run podcast 10 Minutes or Less and 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’m active on X, LinkedIn, and YouTube.

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Favorite quotes

Supposing you have tried and failed again and again. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.

Mary Pickford

When a great team meets a lousy market, market wins. When a lousy team meets a great market, market wins. When a great team meets a great market, something special happens.

Andy Rachleff

Give me six hours to chop down a tree, and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

Abraham Lincoln

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

Abraham Lincoln

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt

Plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

Dwight D. Eisenhower