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Re:Gitlab from YC to IPO by ignoramous on Thursday October 14, 2021 @03:11PM (#28868639)
> ...how quickly can they sell me on investing? As much as us engineers hate to admit it, the most important skill for a founder is the ability to sell. Besides the obvious of having to sell to customers, they also have to sell their vision to VCs, sell their company to potential employees, sell their vision to journalists and potential customers, etc.

As cynical and hollow as it sounds, pretty sure this advice is consistent with what I have heard in multiple videos and blogs from YC.

See also: "create investor fomo", https://html.duckduckgo.com/html/search?q=create%20fomo%20in...

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Re:Gitlab from YC to IPO by mgfist on Thursday October 14, 2021 @08:23PM (#28872184)
I wouldn't say it's cynical. At the end of the day companies don't live unless they can make money. So that, by necessity, is step 1.
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Re:Gitlab from YC to IPO by maest on Friday October 15, 2021 @05:46AM (#28875992)
It's important to not conflate getting investors with getting customers.

Ultimately you care about the latter and you don't always need the former to get there.

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