The way I see it, your typical VC-backed startup needs 3 different teams from birth, to growth, to exit: 1. startup team: visionary founders, mad hackers getti

The way I see it, your typical VC-backed startup needs 3 different teams from birth, to growth, to exit: 1. startup team: visionary founders, mad hackers getting little sleep to push the envelope on the product, great bizdev, amazing product people that understand their market. 2. growth team: operations people (ceo/mgmt team), larger engineering team to stabilize product and continue pushing features, more of everything. 3. exit team: people with relationships in key positions that can then make the connection for acquisition/exit. (This is all anecdotal and I'd love to be corrected)