The cheat code to checkmate
Think once, move twice, bam you just beat a grandmaster♟️. The glitch was never talent: it's speed. Straight from Brian Requarth:
✨ Welcome to the newsletter for LatAm founders building good sh*t.
Did someone forward this to you? You must be up to something, huh?
Picture a chessboard. You’re playing against a grandmaster.
Being real? On paper? You lose. Every time. In every universe 🕊️🤍
Except…
In the one you get 2 moves for their 1.
That’s velocity of learning. Speed with direction. Moving fast to catch up, heading somewhere that matters.
You’re now unstoppable.
That’s how our Brian Requarth explained just one of the things he looks for in founders to Olga Maslikhova, on the latest episode of The J Curve Podcast.
But velocity of learning isn’t a personality trait. It’s actually an output.
It shows up in founders who have three things locked in.
1. A reason to stay in the game. Not a pitch-deck reason. A real one. The kind that stops you from crawling back to the cushy cushy job when things get ugly. (Ohhh they will.)
2. Contagion. There are founders you talk to and they feel inevitable. Before anything. No algo catches that. It’s pure gut, yet it’s non-negotiable.
3. The fundamentals. Thought you could skip that one eh? Nope. You need the brains. The proven execution. The skill to form relationships with people who actually keep up with you.
You have it all? Catch Brian and Olga’s full convo on The J Curve. Go figure out the two moves you’re making today. Checkmate.♟️
Missing moves that come next? Like capital and connections?
Well, the moment is now. Up your game and impress the world.
Applications for the next cohort of The Latitud Fellowship open soon.
Our waitlist makes you the first one to know when.
Be ridiculously early. Be unreasonably ambitious.
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