WhinersRUs wrote:
A real VC wrote:
This is basically exactly wrong.
How, "basically, exactly" so? By the way, "basically, exactly," is redundant. So you're saying the poster was exactly wrong, for each point.
To help us understand how you qualify candidates, "exactly," it'd help the whining high school kid OP to understand what traits VCs actually look for. As clearly the many exits poster was wrong.
When you're interviewing your founders, do you ask them their high school GPA? Their college one? Do you ensure that your portfolio companies do so for their hires?
Do you not probe for how a founder gets on with others, you know, that "team" thing? You don't call around and ask if a candidate plays well with others?
And, speaking of resumes, you'd rather not see evidence if well rounded actual extra - curricular activities, like being an all American athlete?
I don't care about high school. I do care if you took and excelled in calculus. I do care a lot about college. The drop out genius myth is for TV. If you can't get through college there's usually something wrong with you personally and I probably won't bet on you.
Of course I care how execs get along with others - I do not care if they point out absurdities that cost them personally. I want them to. Shifting the timing of a grade matters exactly like shifting the shipment of a product from one quarter to the next. If you don't think it matters, I don't want to invest in you. Not interested in go along to get along type people - they cost you money. No successful VC is and the poster I responded to was a sheep.
Sports in college? That matters for a sales guy, not a founder. An all American college athlete probably wasn't much for studying, Not a negative, but I'd laugh if that made it on a resume after 3 years.
Silicon Valley is hilarious. It's not reality.