Cyan Banister: Spouse and sibling co-founders succeed due to shared conflict resolution
Cyan Banister · 20VC: Cyan Banister on Her Relationship To Money, Risk, Her Investment Decision-Making Process, Why We Will See A Reckoning in the Early Stage Market, Her Biggest Takeaways from HQ Trivia & The Future of Silicon Valley · Oct 19, 2020 · at 26:46
Cyan Banister, venture investor at Long Journey Ventures, explains how her evaluation of co-founder dynamics evolved after investing in dysfunctional teams.
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“This is why I also love husband, wife, and brother, sister, and brother, brother, sibling teams is often they've had an entire lifetime or many, many years to resolve conflicts, right?”
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