049- Diamonds in the Rough with Paige Craig

The Kurty D Show

Key Takeaways:

• Paige Craig’s remarkable story of growing up.
• Paige’s experience at Westpoint
• What spurred Paige to enter and serve in the Marine Corps
• What it was like trying to start a business without access to money.
• The origin story of the Lincoln Group, and when Paige sold it.
• The lessons Paige learned from working alongside people from poorer countries.
• Why and how analyzing people forms a core pillar and differentiator in Paige’s business.
• The importance of establishing trust and understanding with your investors.
• Why a startup’s success lies in its founders.
• When the true value of a business shows itself.

Tweetable Quotes:

• “My job is to find incredibly special people who can create incredible value and create profitable companies eventually that change the world.” – Paige Craig
• “It's about finding out who is your ideal customer. Are you serving them?” – Paige Craig
• “I love learning, but even more than learning, I've always really enjoyed doing.” – Paige Craig
• “When I look at founders now, I understand how hard it is when you don't have access to money.” – Paige Craig
• “The most incredible value typically takes a decade or longer to find and build.” – Paige Craig
• "If you build incredible value for customers and you run your business right, you will get revenue." – Paige Craig
• “If you're going to go after certain types of people, you have to understand them; you have to understand why they perform or outperform in certain environments.” – Paige Craig
• “The very basic pillar of our business is to analyze people and realize that our mandate is picking exceptional, rare type of Founders.” – Paige Craig
• “I think too much money corrupts founders early. And there's great value created when there are restrictions on the money given to them.” – Paige Craig
• If you want to be a great investor, particularly at the early stage, the number one most deterministic thing in a startup's success is its founders.” – Paige Craig
• “But that's one of the great benefits of being in the military. I fully utilized all my education benefits in the Marine Corps.” – Paige Craig
• “As a company gets later on in life, you can analyze the product and the customers, and there's lots of different ways to become a great investor.” – Paige Craig

Links Mentioned:

Kurt’s Twitter

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Kurt’s LinkedIn

Paige Craig

Ana Gabriela Bon

Bailie Salk

Blaine Davis

Blake Hall

David Tisch

Jack Dangermond

Joshua Reeves

Leila Chreiteh

Leura Craig

Lucas Hoffmann

Pete Wilson

Peter Szulczewski

Clubhouse

Dam Neck Virginia

DARPA

Esri

Gusto

Hunt Club

Lincoln Group

Marine Corps

NASDAQ

Navy Federal Credit Union

Outlander VC

RIA

Sacramento State University

West Point

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