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"Your Code Is Worthless" A Top VC Just Told Us Why | The Trillion-Dollar Founder Personality Type Nobody Talks About
Jim Ferry has spent his career on the investor side of the table at Volition Capital, a Boston-based growth equity fund that writes Series A and B checks into capital-efficient companies between $1M and $10M in revenue. He's seen thousands of pitches, sat on dozens of boards, and watched the rules of building a defensible business get rewritten in real time over the last 24 months.
The throughline of this conversation: code used to be the moat. It isn't anymore. What's replacing it is messier, more human, and harder to fake — distribution baked into a founder's personality, communities built…
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