Why some of us are unfit for the magical mystery money machine.| benn.substack.com
My favorite Silicon Valley truism is: The team you build is the company you build. (Credit to Vinod Khosla.) Very soon after founding, most of the work at the company will be done by people who are not you. You will succeed or fail based on the quality of their| Harry Glaser
For years it’s been fashionable for investors to compete on the basis of being “founder friendly.” This is of course a messaging strategy: Investors succeed by returning lots of money to their LPs, and a subset of investors do so by winning deals on the basis of having a| Harry Glaser
Far and away, the most common question I get is about my partnership with Tom. It’s flattering, especially when founders you admire want to hear about how two old east coast friends with one B+ exit to their names do things. It has its moments of agony too: “They’| Harry Glaser