seed stage boards
2 statements across 2 episodes · 0 bullish · 2 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Oct 18, 2019 by Roy Bahat · across every show →
Everything said about seed stage boards, oldest first
Oct 18, 2019 negative
Bahat: Formal seed-stage board meetings are ludicrous and distract founders
“And it's turned into this advice-giving, checking-in governance body, and at the stage at which we invest, where founders are making critical decisions daily, the idea of meeting once every month, or two months, or three months, and doing a PowerPoint presenta…”
Jul 8, 2022 negative
Chalfen: Formal boards at the seed stage are net negative
“So my view is that at seed stage, a board is of limited value. The most value is weekly, bi-weekly spending time with teams, helping them solve problems quickly so that they're not waiting for the board in order to say, by the way, I've got this problem. And t…”