Nabeel Hyatt

If your executive assistant or your VP of engineering or your head of product was fine, so why are we accepting... You'd be European. Why are we accepting mediocrity at that level?

If your executive assistant or your VP of engineering or your head of product was fine, so why are we accepting... You'd be European. Why are we accepting mediocrity at that level?

If your executive assistant or your VP of engineering or your head of product was fine, so why are we accepting... You'd be European. Why are we accepting mediocrity at that level?

I think what you want is people who are engaged, who look at the details, who are invested emotionally, who want you to win, and are doing the detail work to be able to not just give you armchair VC advice that they got from the one other board meeting they were in this week with the other hot company that they're in, because every single startup is a different journey.

I think what you want is people who are engaged, who look at the details, who are invested emotionally, who want you to win, and are doing the detail work to be able to not just give you armchair VC advice that they got from the one other board meeting they were in this week with the other hot company that they're in, because every single startup is a different journey.

I think what you want is people who are engaged, who look at the details, who are invested emotionally, who want you to win, and are doing the detail work to be able to not just give you armchair VC advice that they got from the one other board meeting they were in this week with the other hot company that they're in, because every single startup is a different journey.

And so until you get under the covers of what's really going on inside of this org, aka, how do these co-founders fight? What are the problems inside of the executive team? Then you're going to give different advice to somebody if you really understand them. And so it's worth understanding them.

And so until you get under the covers of what's really going on inside of this org, aka, how do these co-founders fight? What are the problems inside of the executive team? Then you're going to give different advice to somebody if you really understand them. And so it's worth understanding them.

And so until you get under the covers of what's really going on inside of this org, aka, how do these co-founders fight? What are the problems inside of the executive team? Then you're going to give different advice to somebody if you really understand them. And so it's worth understanding them.

If you can't, if you go out and raise, look, I've had really tough rounds to raise, both as a founder and as a VC who's back to seed company or a series A that's not working out well. So look, if you cannot find that amazing and wonderful VC that you think is going to be D, deeply engaged and use your product, then go for the no-op VC. Go for the VC who will at least do no harm. Oh, yeah.

If you can't, if you go out and raise, look, I've had really tough rounds to raise, both as a founder and as a VC who's back to seed company or a series A that's not working out well. So look, if you cannot find that amazing and wonderful VC that you think is going to be D, deeply engaged and use your product, then go for the no-op VC. Go for the VC who will at least do no harm. Oh, yeah.

If you can't, if you go out and raise, look, I've had really tough rounds to raise, both as a founder and as a VC who's back to seed company or a series A that's not working out well. So look, if you cannot find that amazing and wonderful VC that you think is going to be D, deeply engaged and use your product, then go for the no-op VC. Go for the VC who will at least do no harm. Oh, yeah.

High price, fuck off. Fine. I get it. But where you flip that to being the goal, mediocrity is the goal, that's not the goal. Every time you have an ability to have an investor or an employee or really anyone enter your orbit as a founder, your goal should be somebody who is going to be obsessed with you and think about your mission and try and help you. Otherwise, you shouldn't be engaging.

High price, fuck off. Fine. I get it. But where you flip that to being the goal, mediocrity is the goal, that's not the goal. Every time you have an ability to have an investor or an employee or really anyone enter your orbit as a founder, your goal should be somebody who is going to be obsessed with you and think about your mission and try and help you. Otherwise, you shouldn't be engaging.

High price, fuck off. Fine. I get it. But where you flip that to being the goal, mediocrity is the goal, that's not the goal. Every time you have an ability to have an investor or an employee or really anyone enter your orbit as a founder, your goal should be somebody who is going to be obsessed with you and think about your mission and try and help you. Otherwise, you shouldn't be engaging.

And if you fail at it, fine.

And if you fail at it, fine.

And if you fail at it, fine.

And again, I just say they're setting their bar too low. That's the bottom line. Like they're settling for mediocrity because they're afraid of risk.

And again, I just say they're setting their bar too low. That's the bottom line. Like they're settling for mediocrity because they're afraid of risk.