“We will invest to help you growing if and only if you stop acting like a VC bonfire charity and start operating like a business" I could well imagine investor

“We will invest to help you growing if and only if you stop acting like a VC bonfire charity and start operating like a business" I could well imagine investors to occasionally say that. The fees may have been a condition for getting the capital. The backwardness of the timing is well within the range of weirdness that can be expected from a compromise that was a difficult struggle to get.