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...are founder centric. There is a way to measure founder centrality mathematically. You basically have to scrape tons of LinkedIn data. We, a long time ago, supported some really cool academic research on using network dominance to predict venture fund
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...founder wants to do. So it goes from, like, oversight to, like, catalyzing and to amplifying the the founder's ambition. Really? If you like, I I agree with you, but, like, officially, the job of a board member is to, you know, have a fiduciary duty
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...founders out there having to do things that they would never want to do. And I have seen some founders that you would not even think of that actually were in very, very difficult situation because of the bot. The problem is that when you start having
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“Why milestone-based funding kills startup agility and constrains founder agency”
So what they're saying is we don't trust you. We don't want to give you agency. We want to make sure that we pre agree to how you will behave and what you will achieve to give you portions of the mone
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contrarian take24:57 – 25:24
...founder. And so if both are doing right, and it never happens, but if they're doing right, a founder as an operator, as a governance person might look at the job that they're doing and be like, I suck as CEO. Really, we should hire somebody who is mo
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...because if a cofounder leaves, that is one of the easiest ways to kill the business. If they walk away with 50% of your company after two years, you're no longer fundable by venture capitalists. So getting that vesting schedule right and making sure
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...when they're not actively day to day working on the business is going to raise eyebrows amongst the investor community. Now maybe you don't want investment, so that's a different thing. But, titles. Titles are things that can feel easy to give away a
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...a founder control led company. Do you think that's actually better? I I like the governance, I would say. So it depends so so if you have the right board member, actually, governance is great. But I would say if you don't, of course, you know, that's
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...founder led companies perform substantially better because they have the moral authority and the willingness to take the risks that the professional CEOs don't have the remit for. The professional CEOs are typically told don't mess things up, and the
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...founders, you spend you're in a in a semi in a in a minor crisis every every month or every quarter, or you need to just keep on pushing. If you if you if you find founders where you feel that you need to push them instead of them pushing you, then t
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...example, CEO founders among large caps, you know, you could get biased by the mega cap companies. So for example, Infinia,
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...my cofounder, Josh, and just having this recognition that we have our Friday forum where we celebrate all of our wins, and I very rarely make an appearance as a person who has an attributable win. Why do you do that cool if you don't mind me asking?
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...then any other case, they should not be. I think, you know, we are minority investors for the most part. We are there to advise. We are there to help, but it's ultimately the founder's business. And so my viewpoint is that, like, I can help you avoid
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...cofounder, Josh. Yesterday was the first time that I recognized that feeling. This isn't the thing that had been bubbling up for months. It was just like, that's weird. I got a message from him today, and I feel resentful.
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...founders can get emotional when a an investor says, no. Give me that, you know, give me that equity back. Yeah. But but really zooming out, their ask is a completely reasonable one. The question then becomes, what is the best way to assuage their fea
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...generation, the more the legacy owners care about the name on the door, the Stanley name, or the historical name that their mother or father, grandmother or grandfather, right? Whereas if you're talking to a founder themselves, or an entrepreneur tha
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“Small teams making $10M annually might beat most VC-backed founders”
...backed founders, right, who are illiquid, who are stuck. And, whether whether they can or can't raise, but it's just tough and you have total flexibility and control. So then are there new capital str
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