Bahat: Startup valuation does not reflect how highly VCs rate companies
Roy Bahat · 20VC Exclusive: Roy Bahat on Bloomberg Beta's New Fund, The Truth About Valuation That Very Few VCs Will Tell You & Why Founders of Venture Backed Startups Make The Best Angels · Oct 18, 2019 · at 5:50
Roy Bahat is the head of Bloomberg Beta. He discusses common founder misconceptions about startup valuations and venture capital fund strategy.
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“A lot of founders believe mistakenly, in part because VCs lead them on, that company valuation is some kind of a marker of how highly the VC rates your company.”
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