Ask HN: How can anyone be confident in investor meetings?

Posted by junkaccount on Wednesday December 24, 2025 @07:24PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I cannot understand how can a founder be confident in an investor meeting about an outcome. The future is so unpredictable that any confidence is most likely phony.

( 1 comment | 2 points | on HN )

Re:Ask HN: How can anyone be confident in investor meetings? by toomuchtodo on Wednesday December 24, 2025 @07:51PM (#46381037)

Confidence is signal alongside objective financials. Consider how YC selects founders, for example (“are they obsessed and willing to break some rules,” broadly speaking). Success is rarely assured, but signal and data is all you get to decision.

[ Parent | on HN ]