Adrian Aoun: VC has far fewer bad actors than a decade ago
Adrian Aoun · 20VC: The Core Lessons From Building a 150 Startup Angel Portfolio, Why Founders Who Angel Invest Have Such Strong Advantages and Why The Lean Startup Makes Less and Less Sense Today with Adrian Aoun, Founder & CEO @ Forward · May 25, 2018 · at 28:32
Adrian Aoun, founder and CEO of Forward, shares his perspective on how increased transparency and founder networks have improved VC behavior over time.
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“The entire industry has done this over the last kind of five or 10 years, and you actually see far, far Fewer bad actor VCs than you did even a decade or 15 years ago.”
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