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Why would investors care about your product or users? They care about returns. If you can bootstrap it yourself then there's no need to do this, but those tha
by aembleton 1y ago
Why would investors care about your product or users? They care about returns.
If you can bootstrap it yourself then there's no need to do this, but those that bring in investors will need an exit.
- reaperducer 1y agoWhy would investors care about your product or users? They care about returns. You can do two, or even all three of those things. Human beings are not boolean greed machines. The HN bubble likes to reduce everything to a numbers game. Real life isn't like that, as demonstrated by the many tens of thousands of companies that aren't run like a dystopian Silicon Valley comic book.
- g0db1t 1y ago[dead]
- layer8 1y agoThe conclusion still stands: “It essentially means you didn't care about your product and your users in the first place.”
- andrew_lettuce 1y agoI don't disagree with your overall sentiment, but the last line feels off. Investment profile needs to be matched with returns, but they don't all need to be 5 year mega exits, and they don't need the same companies to be racheted up in round after round of fund-led growth. This is why we don't build companies that will last 100+ years anymore
- bombcar 1y agoInvestors in “lifestyle businesses” and bootstrapped ones exist. You just never hear about them because they’re small and like the businesses they invest in, they’re satisfied with moderate returns.
- beezle 1y agoBecause if they do not care about the product or users their returns will be sub-optimal?
- spacechild1 1y agoSome (non-VC) investors are personally invested in the product and want it to succeed/improve.