partner

“If you're going to be a partner, you have to make a commitment for a decade, if not decades because if you're raising a fund and the promise that you are part of that story for the life of the fund, and by the way, in that fund, you will probably raise fund tw…”

“I think ultimately what you're looking for as a founder when fundraising, assuming you have options, is someone you think will be a partner to you, and you know, I always say that the partner means much more than the fund, and so find out how you work together…”

“Because usually when a partner tells you to pick someone, It means that there's a level of due diligence you didn't really do.”

“Over time there just won't be, I think the capability even of partners and as it looks to also not the willingness to do so.”

“You know, we'll fund two hundred million in projects to partners this year, but I would spend even more on partners and distribution.”

“One of the themes that I've noticed is that partners at these firms that we work with are starting to think that the technology is so good that as they give a task to their team member, they will simultaneously give that task to Lagora.”

“We see many examples actually in mega funds of partners leaving the fund and the companies orphaned within the mega fund because their partner has left. And now they don't have a single person to advocate for them in any way, shape or form, and they're adrift.”