Online Event
How to Quantify Founder Potential when Making Investment Decisions
Learn the results of 16+ years of research
Date
Sep 03, 2025
Time
01:00 pm - 02:00 pm
Address
Online Event
When making investment decisions, few investors go beyond standard interviews when evaluating a founder's potential, yet founders are the greatest variable in the success or failure of a startup. To quantify founder potential in a data-driven way, the Founder Institute utilizes a proprietary social science assessment designed to identify the entrepreneurial strengths and weaknesses of founders and teams. At this event, Jonathan Greechan (Co-Founder & CEO of FI) will share details on this unique approach to founder selection, along with key learnings from analyzing 200K+ assessments and the real-world performance of 8K+ startups since 2009.
What are some of the topics?
- The personality traits that correlate positively and negatively with entrepreneurial success
- The personality dynamics of effective startup teams, across every step of the startup journey
- The differences in entrepreneurial strengths and weaknesses across geographic regions
- and more...
Featured Speaker: Jonathan Greechan (Co-Founder & CEO at Founder Institute, General Partner at Founder Capital)
Since 2009, Jonathan has grown and scaled the Founder Institute (the world's largest pre-seed accelerator) to chapters in over 200 cities and 100 countries, producing over 8000 portfolio companies with an estimated value of $20BN. He also serves as a General Partner at Founder Capital, the Founder Institute's Global VC Fund; and is an Advisor to Oxford Entrepreneurs (Oxford University), Horasis, and the USC Incubator (University of Southern California). Previously, Jonathan was a Partner of TheFunded.com, the first website for founders to rate and review venture capitalists, and an Executive Producer of the Founder Showcase, a leading Silicon Valley startup conference that hosted speakers like Elon Musk. Jonathan’s writing has been featured in Fortune, TechCrunch, and Entrepreneur Magazine, and he has spoken at startup conferences on four continents.
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