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Arlan Hamilton: Venture firms should act as stepping-stone universities for talent
“I started thinking of Backstage as less of a company or a set of companies that employs people, lays off people, et cetera, and more like a university where hopefully we are the stepping stone for you. You graduate from Backstage. Stage into something even big…”
Arlan Hamilton: Founders skip critical R&D when copying visible benchmark companies
“I think founders skip steps. They skip steps because they are looking at perhaps headlines or someone else as an example, but they don't dig in to see how that company that they like so much got to where they are. So I think there's an element of research and …”