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Struggling Companies Need Founders to Step In and Restore Original Vision
“There was also sort of this need for a founder to come in and reinstate their sort of the reasons why the company was started in the first place and kind of bring things to this original vision.”
Board Meetings Should Review Pre-Discussed Items, Not Introduce New Decisions
“The board meeting is really kind of a review of everything that's already been talked about. It's not supposed to be a place where you talk about brand new things That require a lot of heavy decision making. It's just a place for people to convene once those d…”
Founders Cannot Truly Judge a VC Until Working With Them Directly
“It's been so noisy in the past five years since I've started doing this. It's been five years now that it's almost so hard to know if a VC is truly someone you want to look up to or respect until you actually know them.”
Founder-Friendly VCs Avoid Taking Too Much Equity in Early Rounds
“Well, practically speaking, it's not gobbling up so much of the company in the first chunk that you have zero incentives to stick around as a founder.”
Raising Mega Growth Rounds Requires Triple-Digit Year-Over-Year Revenue Growth
“It's really hard to raise growth capital, ah, especially off of revenues, ah, primarily because unless, and especially in this environment, and the reason is because as much as it sounds there's tons of growth money being thrown out there, like a hundred milli…”
Founders Should Prioritize Revenue-Generating Investors Over Cool or Prestigious Ones
“I care less about investors that are generally cool, Right? And I care more about investors that can help us generate more revenue.”
A CEO's Primary Job Is Sparking Strategic Ideas, Not Direct Execution
“Making sure that you have some bandwidth as a CEO to keep your head above the water to sort of see what's going on and really understand what you could try doing and knowing that it is part of your job to go out there and think of very strategic ideas that peo…”