Inkinen: EIR roles at VC firms stifle crazy, contrarian startup ideas
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Sami Inkinen, founder of Virta Health and co-founder of Trulia, explains why EIR roles can be harmful for aspiring entrepreneurs.
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“My viewpoint is that, first of all, in a, in any VC, venture capitalist environment, you're surrounded by extremely thoughtful and extremely smart people who can poke holes into any idea that's not completely logical. And you know, these smart, thoughtful, likely very successful people will consciously or unconsciously apply a lot of pressure on you to agree with their watertight logic. And so consequently, it's very, very difficult to be a little bit crazy and a little bit contrarian. And I believe that that's exactly what's required to build something successful and meaningful as an entrepreneur. So I think that environment does not cultivate or create an environment where you can come up with something crazy and contrarian.”
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