Jon Callaghan: Early-stage VCs must embolden founders to take major risks
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Jon Callaghan, co-founder of True Ventures, outlines his firm's core philosophy on early-stage venture investing.
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“We think that the role of the early stage investor is to fully support and fully embolden those founders to take major, major risk and be bold and daring.”
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