Founders should start board meetings with one slide on key concerns
Samir Kaul · 20VC: Khosla Ventures Founding Partner, Samir Kaul on Why Pro Rata Is A Cop Out, Why He Likes Technical Risk and Does Not Take Market Risk & How To Approach Time Allocation Across The Portfolio In Venture · Jan 13, 2020 · at 17:33
Samir Kaul, Founding Partner at Khosla Ventures, discusses best practices for board meeting governance and founder communication with podcast host Harry Stebbings.
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“Make sure at least 48 hours before the board meeting, you've sent a pre-read. And for goodness sake, please don't just read us those slides. You've got three to four hours with six or eight busy, intelligent people, hopefully, and you've got us in a room together now for four hours. Do you really just want to read us slides? Is that what you want to get out of that? Do you want to assume, which you should, that we all do the pre-read and start this board meeting with one slide where you say, here are the two or three things that are keeping you up at night.”
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