Karim Atiyeh
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first heard Oct 2025
last heard 21 Oct
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They're not that different.
And in the same way that we like to select for employees who we think bring something to the table and can help us differentiate and push the envelope further, that's how we think about investors as well.
It's like, what do we think of it as a long-term partnership?
And we think about what they can bring to the table as well.
And it's very different for every investor.
Some investors have expertise that they can help us with and
A lot of them have networks and great portfolio companies that we think can be great partners to us, et cetera.
So we've always thought about it very similarly that we think about interviewing great employees.
In the same way that think of employees, you could bring the best person into the company, but if you don't spend time with them to onboard them and figure out what you exactly want them to do and what their skillset is and empower them to do the best work that they can, if you bring investors on board and not nurture that relationship and actually get to know them better and understand what they're really good at and how they can help you, you're not going to get a lot out of it.
So we do spend a lot of time obsessing over how to...
keep our investors aware of the business how it's going what challenges we're facing and how they're best positioned to help us we spend a lot of time educating them about the business and its challenges and i think it's a lot more powerful to do that over a long period of time so that they see the evolution as opposed to just reach out to your investor once in a while when you need something
Of course, a lot.
I realized that we're very lucky to be in a position where at almost every round, there was a lot more demand from investors than there was supply.
But I see it as a great opportunity to make sure that a lot of investors that we're excited about can often get maybe a starting position in ramp and build up the position that they're really excited to get over time.
And we make that very obvious.
We go into the relationship one step at a time.
And a lot of investors get some allocation in one round.
And as we build a relationship and they get more excited about the business, we get more excited about working with them.
They have an opportunity to invest in subsequent rounds.
And there's been a dynamic that really has started at our seed round and still hasn't ended.
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