The best founders don't actually need their VCs' help
“So I think this is the biggest learning, and you can see that between fund one, fund two, and fund three.”
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So I think this is the biggest learning, and you can see that between fund one, fund two, and fund three.
We have become better at that. You you you mentioned that a lot of the top performing companies end up not needing so much of your help, which is an insight that we've arrived at episode one as well. And, we've thought a bit about how you can sort of reverse engineer that into decision making. Like, can you look for that? Can you look for people who are open to feedback and to other opinions and people's thoughts on on any matter, but, you know, have have a level of ability and conviction in their own their own ideas and how to build the company that they don't need they don't actually need you? Have you have you found a way to
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A VC reveals a counterintuitive insight about founder-investor dynamics: their top performing portfolio companies are the ones that need the least help from them. The discussion explores how VCs can identify founders who are coachable yet self-sufficient, and whether this paradox can be reverse-engineered into better investment decision-making.
Why this clip
This challenges the conventional wisdom that VC value-add is crucial for startup success, revealing that independence might be a better predictor of founder performance.
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