Sometimes you have to be willing to risk your personal reputation to stand up for what you believe in.
Yes all day every day I do things for YC companies I'm not close to, but our biggest exit ever for sure gets extra attention. In any case, I think you'd be surprised to see my calendar. We paradoxically spend the most of our time on the least successful companies, and trust that doing so will help us get to fund the next Airbnb.
I do try to always disclose conflicts. And it's definitely true that areas like nuclear energy that I'm personally passionate about and believe I can contribute to will get extra attention from me.
Yes all day every day I do things for YC companies I'm not close to, but our biggest exit ever for sure gets extra attention. In any case, I think you'd be surprised to see my calendar. We paradoxically spend the most of our time on the least successful companies, and trust that doing so will help us get to fund the next Airbnb.
I do try to always disclose conflicts. And it's definitely true that areas like nuclear energy that I'm personally passionate about and believe I can contribute to will get extra attention from me.