I just had a portfolio company founder do a reference check on an advisory firm, that they might have hired—-because the firm’s flagship experience was working for me.

Turns out, it was a total lie / scam.

Do reference checks before hiring anybody important!

CEO of superstate.co and GP at robvc.com and prev built Compound

Wow, a good reminder to do your due diligence.

It's always wild to me the number of companies that don't do any background checking.

In my experience it is the companies/people that need to be background checked the most, who are often the best at convincing teams they don't need to be checked. Grifters gonna grift.

Trust exists in the heads of the people you work/interacted with. To measure trust you must go talk to those people!

First principles argument of the same

CoLinks & Coordinape

Def still talk to people, but tools like @Coordinape are putting reputation economies and attestation graphs onchain, and it’s going to be a game changer. /colinks-and-co