Founder details Khosla VC call dismissing conflicts: 'too much money in AI to care'
tekbog · x · 2026-10-01
Founder Nathan Lands recounts a call with a Khosla Ventures partner where, upon asking about the firm's conflict between Factory (which he invested in) and Cognition, he was told there's 'too much money in AI to care about conflicts.' He says the partner then rated the founding teams of Factory and Cognition on IQ, charisma, and looks — 'like characters in a game' — before grilling him for technical details of his own startup. His takeaway for founders: VC conflicts of interest are real, and tekbog's 'many such cases' suggests it's a pattern.
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