I Love Backing ‘Mission-Driven’ Founders But Here’s Where They Struggle as Startup CEOs

Learnings From a Decade Investing In These Types of Leaders

We’ve sent hundreds of millions of dollars to startup bank accounts but none of those have gone to teams which don’t have at least one founder we consider to be ‘mission-driven.’ How do I define that term? Loosely, someone who has a personal connection to the problem they’re trying to solve. The tie is sometimes very intimate (as an individual, familial, and so on). Or linked to what…