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...your founder is starting a company or a GP starting a fund because there are so many aspects of managing and building a fund that not everybody is either well suited to or excited about. I'm sure you appreciate this at this point, Harry. And then the
...founder breakups, and also what that means for founder equity. So you've got some pretty startling statistics on how many companies, how many early stage startups experience founder breakups. So maybe you could share some of the highlights of those.
...three, founders, like, people tend to be happier in in good times and more challenging times. Astacio, same question over to you. Any change in how Felicis approaches this, or is two to three still the, the place you wanna write the most checks?
...founders? I'm just trying to understand, because it feels like you're founding the company. I don't babysit founders.
...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.
...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
...really blow up in my experience is cofounder relationships.
...you give to the founder to set up that, you know, that relationship for the best? I think it's kinda crazy that people sometimes invest in CEOs that they've never met in person. Right? Like, I personally like meeting with my CEOs, going to a bar, gra
...the cofounder relationships? Have you seen? It's usually around conflict. Right? It's usually so sometimes there's situations where you there's two directions to the business, and you don't know which direction to take, and you're not able to agree o
...sort of bent towards venture. And I can explain, you know I'm sure that the listeners can explain some of the re the reasons, you know, there's someone to take over if something were to happen to the other founder. There's a complimentary skill set b
...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
...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
...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
...you see in cofounder dynamics today? You've had a couple of different relationships in that respect. What are the biggest mistakes you see? I think one is not really knowing who your cofounder is. What do you mean by that? The cofounders that we have
...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
...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
...those relationships get exhausted. We love operator funds. The one thing my colleague and I talk about a lot is the shelf life of someone's experience. And experience really means network. There's not a single amount of time that everyone has in term
...a founder, I wouldn't be able to follow-up on all these things on the day to day and make sure that is actually open. So when and then a lot of structure. So as an example, there are two or three other VC firms that are very talent focused. I won't n
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