American VCs forced European startup to move to Silicon Valley - it was a disaster

the founders are European. A 100%. Alright. It's a bit sad. But that's just how it is. I remember Truecaller are friends of mine, also fantastic company, European I was at Atomoca when they did that. Yeah. Nami and Zahi. And and they were, like, told by the VCs, the American VCs, like, you have to move your engineering center to Silicon Valley because otherwise everything's gonna go to shit. And they did. And it was a disaster. And they had it for a year. They tried to recruit, but obviously, nobody in Silicon Valley knew what, like, Truecaller was. And they were already a pretty grown company, so they couldn't, like, attract as a startup in that sense. And they had a hard time recruiting and whatever. And they're just like, why are we doing this? And then they shut it down. They lost a year on that. They lost a year on that. Lost so much traction. And then some of these VCs were like, oh, you're not doing well. So now we're not gonna put our partner on your board anymore. We put some junior guy on your board because we don't care because you're not our top priority of companies anymore. It's a more savage indictment, isn't it? When you get the associate join the board and you're like, oh, fuck. Yeah. Exactly. Relegated.