technical founders

“Where I've seen that go wrong the most often is then the ability to attract, evaluate, and retain technical talent. And so, we have a strong, strong preference. For founding teams that have at least one technical founder. We also have a strong preference for t…”

“Technical founders often misunderstand the value they can get out of Fang. And misunderstand is an understatement. They grossly misunderstand what value they can extract from a Fang job and what value they can't extract.”

“And you're going to have a bias towards building a good enough versus the perfect architecture, because if you worked at a big company, you might have been rewarded for the perfect architecture, but not for a startup.”

“A technical founder is a partner in this whole journey of a startup, and it requires really intense level of commitment, and you're in just a dev.”

“If you have equal equity with someone and you have a seat at the table in decision making, just because it's not working doesn't mean you get the right to blame other people.”