Are you saying this is the kind of question that an investor would only have the luxory of asking several weeks into an actual relationship?
To be fair, Reid said he spends a long time with people before pulling the trigger (40 hrs+ for founders) and you basically must come in through a refferal.
Are you saying this is the kind of question that an investor would only have the luxory of asking several weeks into an actual relationship?
Forget several weeks, probably over a much longer time period where they are socializing in a friendly way spanning multiple events/dinners etc...
I think there is this notion that there are no "politics" in the startup world which is poison to anyone entering it with the naive idea that "Idea, Talent, Traction, Timing" are everything.
To be fair, Reid said he spends a long time with people before pulling the trigger (40 hrs+ for founders) and you basically must come in through a refferal.