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The Hard Conversations Founders Don't Want to Have

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  • Feb 23, 2023
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Y Combinator
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In this video, Y Combinator partners Michael Seibel and Dalton Caldwell discuss the importance of having honest and difficult conversations with startup founders. While having hard... Show More

In this video, Y Combinator partners Michael Seibel and Dalton Caldwell discuss the importance of having honest and difficult conversations with startup founders. While having hard conversations can be uncomfortable, Seibel and Caldwell argue that this transparency is essential for founders to grow and ultimately, these experiences help founders have their own hard conversations that they've been avoiding with the people around them.

Apply to Y Combinator: https://www.ycombinator.com/apply/
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Chapters (Powered by https://bit.ly/chapterme-yc ) -
00:00 - Intro
00:39 - Definition
02:35 - Being likable
03:52 - Validating decisions
06:54 - Fundraising
08:31 - Deep dives
11:37 - Co-founders
15:42 - Employees
18:37 - Nobody's perfect
19:50 - Outro

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Gil Dibner ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ @gdibner ยท Feb 27, 2023
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This is great. Every founder should watch this - and then ask himself/herself: "what is your VC actually doing and is it valuable?"
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