Rohan: VCs should act like patrons, not hands-on coaches
Terrence Rohan · David Tisch & Terrence Rohan: Biggest Misconceptions & Hardest Truths About Seed Investing | E1112 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · Feb 5, 2024 · at 1:24:46
Seed investor Terrence Rohan compares the ideal VC-founder relationship to an art patron supporting an artist without interfering in the creative process.
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“I actually believe like the best investors, like for a company to truly be incredible, the founder actually, it has to come from the founder. It really does. It's like a real creative process, like analogy I've been kind of playing around recently. It's like you're a patron, they're an artist, they got to paint that picture. You're not opining on the creative process at all.”
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