I think this is a key takeaway: "Most entrepreneurs think of the VC as their customer, but when your survival is based on the VC, you build a company on what t

I think this is a key takeaway: "Most entrepreneurs think of the VC as their customer, but when your survival is based on the VC, you build a company on what the VC will like and not what your real customers like." A VC-backed business often has the wrong priorities from the get go, which is why bootstrapping is really attractive because you live and die by building a product people want to use.