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Batchu: Hiring from portfolio companies is not a conflict for angels
“I, I'm pretty ruthless about that. I think that there's absolutely no conflict. I think it's extremely anti-competitive from a labor market perspective for you to think that I won't hire the best people from your company. And so you, it's your job to retain yo…”
Sri Batchu: There is no inherently wrong motivation for employees
“And then I don't, I actually don't think there's necessarily a wrong motivation.”
Sri Batchu: Active operators have a key edge over professional VCs
“I think operators have a distinct advantage especially with their smaller checks in earlier stages, across all four of those than a lot of professional investors.”
Batchu: Tech employees should be allowed side projects if job performance stays high
“As I mentioned before, I think as long as you're not, you know, distracted during work hours and getting your day job done, I think what you do outside of work is, is your prerogative.”
Sri Batchu: Notion built a rare, impressive community-led growth strategy
“One I'll pick is is, is Notion. I think they've done an incredible job of building a very large multi-pronged community based growth strategy, which I haven't seen a lot of companies do that. I think they're, it's very impressive.”