Catanzaro: Technical founders shouldn't learn business functions from first principles
Sarah Catanzaro · A Conversation with Sarah Catanzaro, Amplify Partners · Apr 3, 2023 · at 26:14
Sarah Catanzaro, General Partner at Amplify Partners, discusses how technical founders can bridge commercial knowledge gaps when scaling their companies.
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“I find myself constantly, like, reminding technical founders, including those within the Amplify portfolio, that, like, they don't need to learn things from first principles, or even from experimenting, like, They can just ask people who know how to do it, and we're there to like facilitate some of those connections.”
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