VC lists top 6 founder fundraising mistakes, conflicts of interest first
PTrubey · x · 2026-10-13
Investor Paul Klay lays out the top six mistakes founders make when dealing with VCs, based on real cases, with founder PTrubey vouching from experience.
- #1 is conflicts of interest: investors see your roadmap, customer data, financials and internal discussions — problematic when the same fund backs your closest competitor, as in the public dispute between Factory AI's Matan Grinberg and Vinod Khosla. Check a fund's portfolio overlap before accepting.
- The remaining points were truncated in the repost, but the list offers a practical due-diligence checklist for founders.
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