The point of being able to start a startup in the US is to protect founders from the kind of bad behavior you’re (indirectly) worried about. Russia comes to mi

The point of being able to start a startup in the US is to protect founders from the kind of bad behavior you’re (indirectly) worried about. Russia comes to mind as a place where you really don’t want to lose investors $200M. In the US, there’s no way for investors to pressure founders, beyond the dynamics of a startup. Investor pressure is a known quantity. YC spends a lot of time preparing founders for it, and pg has several essays on it. Sequoia will be just fine. But even if they weren’t, they can’t react in a way that indirectly affects you. Put another way, if your founders allowed themselves to be in a situation where a single investor controlled the fate of your company, they were already in a bad bet.