The impact of founder personalities on start-up success || Ep 3 with Prof Paul X McCarthy
09:32 Personality traits, career aptitude and the 6 types of entrepreneurs
21:16 Successful employees, athletes and entrepreneurs are not the same
27:47 Paradox of persistence and variety
32:23 Personality diversity in successful teams
44:34 Can social media activity reliably predict personality traits?
47:24 What if somebody doesn't fit one of the 6 entrepreneur categories?
53:35 Gender, racial, cultural, linguistic and geographic diversity
Professor Paul X McCarthy is an academic and serial entrepreneur applying data science to the social sciences. Alongside his coauthors (Xian Gong, Fabian Stephany, Fabian Braesemann, Marian-Andrei Rizoiu, Peggy Kern), Paul has been researching the personality traits of successful employees and entrepreneurs.
View the working paper here: https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4359859
