20VC: Why Founder Mode is Dangerous & Could Encourage Bad Behaviour | Why Fundraising is a Waste of Time & OKRs are BS | Why Angel Investing is Bad for Founders to Do and the VC Model is on it's Last Legs with Zach Perret @ Plaid

1045.038 - 1062.055 Zach Perret

This was based on our own experience, meaning we'd interviewed a bunch of people and either seen friends or ourselves made some hires of people that had been really experienced but weren't willing to work that hard or were really jaded in their thinking. So we kind of avoided that early on in the company. But also, there was a time when experience didn't matter as much. Hustle mattered a lot more.