Grimshaw: Being a founder's 'first call' is a low, reactive bar
Miles Grimshaw · Benchmark Part II: The Dinner · Acquired · Oct 17, 2022 · at 1:14:10
Benchmark General Partner Miles Grimshaw critiques the venture industry cliché that board members should aim to be a founder's first call.
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“There's this trope in the industry, right, which is you want to be the founder's first call. And it's like, I've never really liked it insofar as it's like very reactionary for you. It's like, oh, they'll call me, I'll pick up the phone and respond. It's a low bar. I think it's a low bar. I think that hopefully founders would say of us, like, we're their best caller.”
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