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“Founder reveals how investor relationships can turn toxic despite legal protections”
Even if the protections are there, I've gotten into raging fights with investors where I've had the right to do something that they seeded me that right in a negotiation years earlier, but they weren'
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personal lesson40:16 – 40:35
...founder from the and from the company from the very beginning. Yep. And a founder should realize that that is, like, you know, of course, you get into the the anxiety and the stress of, am I gonna get funded? What are the terms gonna be? All those th
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...awful relationships between founders and investors. Liz, welcome to the Startup Podcast. Thanks, Sonia. Thanks for having me. So I thought I'd start with, something that can sort of seem like a bit of a microcosm of the relationship between founders
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...cofounder. And we know that you can get these absolutely magical pairs that can build and create things that neither neither of those individuals could have done alone. So, yeah, we would, we're very happy to to help you properly evaluate your your c
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...founders when you met them the early days of the traits they had that really got you convinced to go on a journey with them? No. I found that there is no factory of founders, and they are coming in so many different shapes. I will say maybe one thing
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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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...founder selection given so many people say a lot? Given your experience, how would you advise founders on choosing? Our equivalent was like getting married on the second date, which if you can avoid it so the good news, we got lucky. So it worked for
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or founders that are referring other founders that they have worked with before. Or, you know, the, the third way may be through investors that we know and, have worked with in the past, who we want to co invest with, who are, you know, sending inter
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...You know, connecting together these really interesting entrepreneurial founder types and helping them build that co founding team. You think, you know, that's Well, and what I find interesting is that if if you come to me and say you're one I think y
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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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...the founder of the building and physical industry tend to be slightly older. So in a lot of case, it would not be kids out of YC, although I know we are seeing more and more great stuff coming out of those places, but that's just historically. But, l
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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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“Why forcing advisor relationships always backfires as a founder”
...team. Ultimately, everything is on your shoulder as a founder
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tactical advice27:07 – 27:40
...and how should investors who are backing cofounders be thinking about that relationship management to minimize the chance that they're in that 65% cohort? I was beginning to be called in into these situations. But like couples therapy, you often kind
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...founder that dictates what the relationship looks like post investment. There are some founders that we are checking in with multiple times a month, and then there are others that may lean on us or, you know, meet with us once a quarter for more of a
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...important for cofounders. Right? I think a lot of here, like, maybe you you have your own startup, but maybe you're only one person and or maybe you're trying to find another cofounder. Like, if you can, like, you you wanna find someone that's, like,
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...founders usually tell us at the end of the meeting or in an email shortly thereafter, like, let us know. We'd love to have you in.
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to really help them pick a significant pain point they can go after and build an important company. And we've done it multiple times successfully. Mutual friend of ours, Doug Leone says a very similar thing in terms of how he really evaluates people,
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...founders out there. And I was very lucky because as a VC, I had a huge network where I could learn what have been the companies that, you know, scaled in the best way, that were the most respected as founders, etcetera.
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...fund partners about an investment that we're looking at, and I asked him a question which was like, what attributes do you think matter in the next investor for this business? Because obviously, we all want it to succeed.
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