Jonathan Lowenhar
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Oct 14, 2025
Lowenhar: Founders lose startup control as revenue and valuations grow
“The more success a founder has with a given startup, the more that business ascends and grows in revenue and valuation, that actually the less control that founder ends up having or the founders end up having of their own business, because most startups that t…”
Oct 14, 2025 negative
Lowenhar: VCs prematurely replace founder CEOs when performance lags memo projections
“Too often, most of those investors seem to only have one lever to pull when they're confused by the gap between the investor memo they once wrote and the actual performance on the ground. And that lever is Oh, let, let's replace the CEO. And I'm being callous …”
Oct 14, 2025 negative
Lowenhar: VCs refuse to invest in founder development, preferring new bets
“The reason founders were getting fired is because no one was investing in the latter. And venture investors don't bother investing in it. They just don't bother because they make their money off the next wager, not the career development of a CEO. It's not tha…”
Oct 14, 2025
Lowenhar: Startups must work backwards from M&A, profitability, or fundraising
“At any given time, we think that a startup is working backwards from one of three things, very simply. I'm either working backwards from M&A. I'm working backwards from profitability. I'm working backwards from the next fundraise. You got to choose one.”
Oct 14, 2025
Lowenhar: Founding requires courage, but scaling requires a different operational skillset
“Founding a company is about courage and character. Like, I'm gonna just go take a shot at this. Running a company is about a set of skills. The job just changes the moment the thing you've birthed into the world starts to have some success. Your job goes from …”
Oct 14, 2025 positive
Lowenhar: 2020 forced a founder generation to model for profitability over fundraising
“That was the first time an entire generation of founders heard, you might not raise more capital. You better go learn this crazy idea of how to have more cash coming to your business each month than go out. I imagine you were on the receiving end of a few of t…”
Oct 14, 2025
Oct 14, 2025 positive
Lowenhar: Stigma around founder therapy and coaching has largely vanished
“I think that is largely gone from startup life, and that there are therapists everywhere amongst the My Founder community. There are coaches everywhere And I think, by the way, they are normally distributed like the same group I described earlier, and there ar…”
Oct 14, 2025 negative
Lowenhar: Most VC board members lack operating experience and track lagging indicators
“Venture board members are normally distributed. The large group of them are in the middle. And they're fine. They have little to no operating experience. And they provide value in four ways. They make introductions. They write checks. They provide some strateg…”