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Q Kind of inherent within kind of choosing an investor, though, there's the often troublesome decision for founders over taking operator VC money versus invest Investor VC money. Now, being an investor VC, I would add to your answer on one side, but where did your decision fall on this, and what was the thesis behind this decision?
A Yeah, so we did take money from both, and I'd say this, we love taking money from ex-founders, because typically they're great at practical advice. How to practically hire, practically build a product plan, practically go and close that monster sale. They've been there, and they've had to go through that experience themselves. I'd say non-former founders, they also can be incredibly valuable. I just ask them a different set of questions. And I'd say the only thing to be careful as is what I think is not good is when you have someone who hasn't worked or run in a very small company, heavily giving you that practical advice, because there tends to be a lot of context that they miss. And so that advice can be wrong. And, and we, we've seen that and also taken some of that advice.
AI assessment note: “Yeah, so we did take money from both, and I'd say this”
Answered raw tape
D 5 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.60
Q Kind of inherent within kind of choosing an investor, though, there's the often troublesome decision for founders over taking operator VC money versus invest Investor VC money. Now, being an investor VC, I would add to your answer on one side, but where did your decision fall on this, and what was the thesis behind this decision?
A Yeah, so we did take money from both, and I'd say this, we love taking money from ex-founders, because typically they're great at practical advice. How to practically hire, practically build a product plan, practically go and close that monster sale. They've been there, and they've had to go through that experience themselves. I'd say non-former founders, they also can be incredibly valuable. I just ask them a different set of questions. And I'd say the only thing to be careful as is what I think is not good is when you have someone who hasn't worked or run in a very small company, heavily giving you that practical advice, because there tends to be a lot of context that they miss. And so that advice can be wrong. And, and we, we've seen that and also taken some of that advice.
AI assessment note: “we did take money from both, and I'd say this, we love taking money”
