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Give yourself a job title. One that actually describes what you do.

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Tell me about something you made that you're proud of specifically because it was hard, not because it looked impressive.

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Describe a time you saw a problem nobody assigned to you, and fixed it anyway. What made you step in?

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What's a bet you've made on yourself that hasn't paid off yet, but you still believe it will?

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Why does an onsite, pre-revenue, founding-stage bet in Kochi specifically pull you in, not push you away?

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Pre-revenue affects what I can pay today, not whether you get paid. What do you expect to be paid, and is it short-term certainty or long-term upside you're actually optimizing for?

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What's the one thing in everything you just read that you'd push back on, or think we're wrong about?

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"By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired."

Often credited to Kafka, actually Kazantzakis — but the sentence is too good to skip.