As a general operating principle, I also don’t think it works super well—most of the time, there are occasions when it does—to go into a board meeting and say, “Hey, I’m really struggling with this idea. What should we do?” Not only because boards don’t like that. (And in general they don’t; they want confident leadership.) But because in a board meeting, you usually have all these weird dynamics of different VCs trying to impress each other. You’re actually just much better off to have individual conversations ahead of time when you really want open-ended brainstorming. You’re likely to get
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