Kawasaki: Startup founders always overestimate their financial forecasts
Guy Kawasaki · 20 VC 001: Guy Kawasaki of Apple, Motorola and AllTop.com · Jan 13, 2015 · at 7:11
Guy Kawasaki, Silicon Valley VC and former Apple chief evangelist, discusses common founder habits that frustrate investors on 20VC with Harry Stebbings.
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“Well, one thing that drives me nuts is that they always, always are so wrong in their forecasts. I've never seen one that undershot his projections.”
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