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It's not in the interest of the VC that the founders have financial security. Well at least the type of VC's that have come up in since the dot com boom where it was not about building viable businesses but getting sold to the highest bidder when the founder is under financial pressure to sell they can strong arm him into easily compared to a founder that is financially secure and interested in building and running a business

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It’s not binary. Enough financial security that they don’t care what their investors think, no. Enough that they’re thinking of how to grow the company rather than how they’re going to pay their mortgage, yes.

> It's not in the interest of the VC that the founders have financial security.

It's also not in the interest of the VC that the founders are worried about making their rent or mortgage payments, or paying off the credit cards they maxed out paying their AWS bills in the early stages of their company.

The VCs want their founders to be hungry for more, and see their company's growth as a vehicle for that. But they don't want founders to be stressing over basic human needs, either.

Any VC that would refuse to let you take some liquidity in these situations is not a VC you want to make a deal with. And if you can only find VCs like that, your company is probably doing poorly enough that you might want to rethink what you're doing.

It’s literally the opposite to what you suggest. Someone who hasn’t eaten for days isn’t thinking about eating healthy when they walk by a McDonalds.

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