Gur: Capital is the single biggest value VCs provide to founders
Sar Gur · 20VC: How Investors Can Build Relationships with Founders In Organic, Non-Transactional Ways & How VCs Should Handle Founder Disputes with Saar Gur, General Partner @ CRV · Mar 27, 2017 · at 7:36
Saar Gur is a General Partner at CRV discussing the reality of venture capital value-add versus founder effort in startup success.
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“Again, having, having worked in companies, I realized that, you know, some, we, I think we add value, but you know, 99% of the work is on the founders, but there's true, the biggest value that we add is the money.”
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