Founder lesson from SV: contracts and people's word mean nothing until dishonesty pays
vaibhavbetter · x · 2026-10-11
Founder @iamjakestream shares his first hard lesson moving from Wall Street to Silicon Valley: contracts and people's word don't mean anything here — it's a high-trust environment "until it's more valuable for someone to be dishonest", whereas Wall Street at least had "honor among thieves". @vaibhavbetter agrees: unfortunate but true, and the rest of the venture world learns from Silicon Valley. Startup-culture anecdote and opinion, not AI technical content.
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