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Darian Shirazi
@darian314
member of the capital deployment staff @GradientVC
Joined January 2008
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This is so true. I was a founder for a decade and now I’ve been a VC for about a decade. Most VCs - save a handful - are destructive. VCs: stay out of the way and help the company raise more capital. That’s really all we can do.
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“ A super high bar for a VC is: do no harm.” @travisk says only 10% of VCs are able to do no harm, and only 1% are actually helpful: “ An operator who's running a company, if they're good, is a grandmaster of chess.”  ”And the VC is a chess enthusiast. They check in on the chess match once every three months and they're trying to make a mark on the world. They have an opinion.” “And you're like, don't go to Jordan and tell him how to dunk, and definitely don't go to him and tell him how to dribble. But it's hard because everybody has an opinion.” “The way to think about it is—you're on the Serengeti. If an antelope limps in the Serengeti, the lion will take it down, even if it's not hungry. Can't even fucking help it. It's just what he does. That's kind of the nature of most VCs.”
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