Caldwell: Investors Should Treat Pitches as Job Interviews For Themselves
Dalton Caldwell · Dalton Caldwell - Startup Investor School Day 2 · Y Combinator · Mar 7, 2018 · at 26:10
Dalton Caldwell of Y Combinator teaches angel investors how to conduct founder meetings without creating toxic power dynamics.
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“In terms of bad meetings one thing to think about is pretend that the investor meeting is your job interview, where they're interviewing you for a job, and not the other way around. There's often a lot of power dynamic things of making it feel like the founder is like an employee, I guess, and they are not an employee, right? You really wanna feel like you're interviewing for the job of investor at their startup, and not that they're interviewing for the job of potential underling that wants your money.”
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