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Comment by dethstarr | Hacker News Reader

I thought Ron was a total bully. Doesn't he threaten shareholders and makes them bend to his will all the time? I don't know a lot about him, but I heard he's tough to deal with.

Can anyone share any more Conway stories?

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The most common Ron Conway/SV Angel story is that as a portfolio company, you email one of the partners (most of the time NOT Ron himself; he's for emergencies), ask for an intro to a company, or advice, and you get their best effort (which is always successful, and usually successful beyond what you expected -- when you want a Director, you end up with an intro to a VP or C-level). This is boring, but day in/day out, it's probably the most common story.

The only people I've ever heard about him bullying are his own shareholders, or people who are doing bad things to tech companies -- shareholders know what they're signing up for (and if he makes them a lot of money, in exchange for a couple phone calls to fix problems in the future, they don't mind at all).

Ron doesn't have shareholders, so I'm not sure what you mean.

I meant "LPs in the fund", sorry.

(I guess I've also heard about him going to bat very aggressively for his portfolio companies with later-round investors, too.)

Rumor has it that he is not afraid to stand up for what he believes is right. Doing a quick search on Google shows exactly that - he only gets tough when he wants to correct a "wrong".

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