Morris: Founders should be transparent about who else is investing in their round
Jeff Morris Jr. · 20VC: Investing Lessons From Observing Doug Leone and Bill Gurley, Why It Is Easier To Be Contrarian As A VC Than As An Angel & What It Takes To Run Tinder's Product and Revenue Alongside A Seed Fund with Jeff Morris Jr, Founder @ Chapter One · Nov 19, 2018 · at 23:06
Jeff Morris Jr., Director of Product and Revenue at Tinder and founder of Chapter One, discusses fundraising transparency and investor dynamics with Harry Stebbings.
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“And so if you know an investor is actually interested in your company and is talking to you for the right reasons, being asked the question, who else is investing your round? I think it's a totally fair question. And on the investor side, like you really want to know the round dynamics. You want to know who's going to be co-investing with you because ideally you will build a relationship with those investors. And so I've seen a lot of entrepreneurs who kind of shy away from that question and honestly boggles my mind, especially on, on kind of The third or fourth call. At that point, you've established a relationship and you should just be totally transparent on both sides.”
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