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The Founder and Investor Trust Problem: It's not what you think.

This is going to be BIG.

Don’t get me wrong—I don’t mean trust in the sense that VCs think founders are just going to get a fake passport and move to Fiji, or that investors are secretly plotting to take over the company. The price negotiation process is pretty straightforward, and once a deal has been agreed upon we move on. That doesn’t mean we trust each other.

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