Cris Valenzuela claims investor help rarely makes a difference in startup success
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Cris Valenzuela, co-founder and CEO of Runway, addresses whether venture capital investors add meaningful operational value to startups.
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“The role in the investor is not to build a company. It's to trust that you will build a company and that you will build a generational product, and so I think they help sometimes. They might help you with intros and with other things, but it's not gonna make a big difference in the sense that the success of what you're building comes from grinding and the tenacity of waking up every day and doing it for multiple days in a row, even when things are very hard. And so don't rely on, like, some magical solution or helpfulness of just one person, because that's not gonna, that's not how things actually work.”
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