Venture capital returns flow sequentially from founder and company success
Leah Busque · 20VC: Finding VC Partners That Look Beyond The Numbers, The Black Box of VC Secrets That Needs To Be Shared & The 1,000 Reasons A VC Won't Invest In You When It Has Nothing To Do With You with Leah Busque, General Partner @ Fuel Capital · Mar 19, 2018 · at 15:05
Leah Busque, founder of TaskRabbit and General Partner at Fuel Capital, discusses balancing venture deal terms with founder alignment.
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“When the founder is successful, the company is successful, and the venture investor is successful. And it happens in that order.”
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