Turner: Executive humility prevents hype from damaging startup reputation
Guy Turner · 20 VC 056: The Life Cycle of Startups with Guy Turner, Partner @ Hyde Park Venture Partners · Jul 22, 2015 · at 12:01
Guy Turner, Partner at Hyde Park Venture Partners, explains how startup executives can manage the risks associated with high public expectations.
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“I think there's a way to attenuate the hype, which is by, you know, maintaining a personality of the executives that, that doesn't believe, believe their own press. In other words a company can have lots of hype about it. But if when the executives and CEOs and founders are out in public they are humble and reasonable. I think any sort of Acceleration of the hype beyond the performance of the company doesn't have a negative impact on the reputation because the executives are seen as being mature and thoughtful and generally backable people.”
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