The video describes the founder's journey and how their past experiences and network,包括 their time at Microsoft and Shopify, contributed to the success.
The video describes the founder's journey and how their past experiences and network,包括 their time at Microsoft and Shopify, contributed to the success of Kudos. It also touches on lessons learned as an immigrant founder.
there. Another thing that I always say is um the the actual relationships you build when you're in a job are very important and you want to do your best possible job in a job that you're doing because all my last like part of my fundraising being simple was Max Lechin was one of my boss's bosses at a firm and I did a great job at what I did at a firm. Um all my previous managers and like execs were actually angel investors and kudos. Um, a lot of the introductions that I got into the venture capital ecosystem were from people who were execs at companies I had worked in in the past because venture is also a trustbased business. Like somebody is wiring a bunch of millions to you and they met you two weeks ago. The trust needs to be baked into something that has a little bit more tangibility to it. And that tangibility for me tended to just be that I had done a reasonably good job at all
the companies I had worked at. I had not burnt any relationships. And so when it was time to raise capital, people believed that the thing I was going to do was going to be at least as good or better than the things I had done in the