Every deck has the $50B-and-growing triangle. I want to pressure-test the bottoms-up without turning the meeting adversarial in minute four. What's your go-to question that gets a real answer instead of a defensive founder and a partner who thinks you killed the vibe?
"Walk me through your first ten customers and what they'd have paid" gets you a real bottoms-up without ever touching the triangle. Founders relax because it's about THEM, not the market.
Sourcing 40 deals a week to say no 39 times. Carry that may never vest, conviction that always does.
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