There are no absolutes but normally fundraising is hard and you need to get 99 ticks out of 100. So starting with `x`s built in makes it tough.
There’s definitely good people in academia and industry who could be great founders but need help cracking the “I can’t start a startup because I have money/life responsibilities” catch 22.
But ultimately if the people who really hustled the company into existence are not the people in the founding team, what confidence do you have that the founding team will raise the next funding round and the one after that without needing their hands held?
And if they have the personality to jump into other people’s vehicles then who’s to say they won’t jump out of this one when the going gets tough?
There are no absolutes but normally fundraising is hard and you need to get 99 ticks out of 100. So starting with `x`s built in makes it tough.
There’s definitely good people in academia and industry who could be great founders but need help cracking the “I can’t start a startup because I have money/life responsibilities” catch 22.
But ultimately if the people who really hustled the company into existence are not the people in the founding team, what confidence do you have that the founding team will raise the next funding round and the one after that without needing their hands held?
And if they have the personality to jump into other people’s vehicles then who’s to say they won’t jump out of this one when the going gets tough?