Lanng: Good VCs build true loyalty by supporting founders during crises
Christian Lanng · Christian Lanng: "How Being a Founder Almost Killed Me" | E1065 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · Sep 27, 2023 · at 37:54
Christian Lanng, former CEO of Tradeshift, reflects on what separates great venture capital partners from fair-weather investors.
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“If an investor is good if they show up when shit is hard, right, like, everybody is just cheering when it's, like, up, up, up, it's like go faster, But the investors that I have a relationship with today are the investors that were there when stuff was really, really hot, or when something blew up in a way we didn't expect, or whatever, and they were still there. You know, as an investor, you probably have some control in the sense that you show up for your founders when everybody else is about to bail on them, for instance, right?”
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