There is nothing more bonding between two people in my experience than talking about how you grew up. Sometimes this question will turn into a wonderful twenty-minute detour and you’ll hear that someone is from a blue-collar background and their parents worked as nurses and janitors to put them through an Ivy League school. Other times, people might talk about their mother dying when they were ten years old. The reason I like to ask this question is because it bonds me with the founder. What a founder’s parents think of their path is critical, almost as critical as what the founders themselves
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