PerkyDonut
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Toxic/Unprofessional Founders

Who are the most toxic or unprofessional founders that you guys have heard of?

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Indian Startups
by WigglyDonutCityMall

Traits of toxic founders

Compiling a couple of ways people can understand a toxic founder from a distance, before they start working with them actively I've now met with a lot of them over the last couple of years, here are the ones that stand out the most to ...

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Manipulation: Expert manipulators. They would say one thing early morning and other things someday else. Accountabi...

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by JumpyPancakeStealth

How to be a toxic founder?

  • Remove people from Townhall meet because there camera is not switched on.

  • Do an app revamp because he gets cognitive overload, and not users.

  • Forces decisions without an objective measurement for outcome.

Guess, who!

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He is talking about Gaurav Munjal of Unacademy! He did this yesterday.

Indian Startups
by GoofyCupcakeStealth

Founders on here....what's the worst VC experience that you've had ?

I'm hearing some horror stories of pressure and unreasonable expectations coming from VC's even at the seed stage. Pre and post funding.

Do you folks have stories to share about this. Especially w.r.t. interaction with associates with ...

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I once had an enlightening conversation with a 4 yoe associate telling me to move ("transform") the sales process to ...