How Should Founders Deal with Politics? w/ Nate Fischer

Follow Nate: https://x.com/NateAFischer/ Get your company registered! https://doola.com/exerton About Nate: Nate is the Chairman and cofounder of New Founding, a cofounder of American Reformer, an investor and entrepreneur. He makes early-stage venture investments and is the principal of NF Macro, a multi-strategy investment firm. He previously co-founded Trustwork, an online platform for property maintenance services, and InvestRes, a $1.5B real estate investment company. In this episode we talk about: How Should Founders Deal with Politics? + how startups are political by nature (00:00) Intro + check this out! https://doola.com/exerton (02:00) Who is @NateAFischer? (04:24) What *really* is politics (for startups)?! (06:57) Can founders stay out of politics? (the answer surprised me too!) (10:49) Is politics really important at an early stage? (14:51) Does looking at things politically differentiate things that are inherently political? (17:43) How @brian_armstrong dealt incredibly with this! (19:06) Why do founders like @elonmusk take a political stance even though they will get hate for it? (25:09) The path of the founder vs the path of the company (26:30) Difference in political ideologies + importance of it (30:31) What classifies as a bad idea? (32:57) How are founders bending reality? (in politics too) (34:16) The match between the ideology of the founder and the firm when raising money (37:44) Do some funds tend to lose on deals if they focus on ideologies? + how @foundersfund has dealt incredibly with this (40:27) Do founders really have the leeway to take a political position when raising money? (43:52) Change in ideologies in partnerships