venturecapital

What qualities make you truly respect a VC?

building /cabin, advising /clanker and /farcon | grin.io

If they’ve been a founder before — they can appreciate what it means to truly have skin in the game

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how do you reconcile that with the fact that most of the best VCs ever were never founders?

Truly respecting a characteristic doesn’t equate to disrespecting the lack of it. Andy Reid never played a down in the NFL and now has three rings — first ballot hall of famer.

But it’s a two-way street. VCs must show empathy (and respect) to founders, particularly if they haven’t played the game themselves.

fair enough on your first point

fwiw in my experience respect/empathy for founders doesn't cut cleanly on founder vs non-founder. plenty of founder VCs think they are better than founders they back and will try to meddle.