I learned that VCs could destroy and wreck a great startup if left uncontrolled. Mobile2win India might have declined in profitability but would not have been sold at a throwaway price if the VCs had retained some entrepreneur DNA in it. The incident taught me about people and their motivations. I learned that it was not fair on my part to expect loyalty forever. This deal also educated me a lot more about VCs and investors. Many of them did not understand the day-to-day, granular details of running a business and assumed that a business model was just an excel sheet that could be projected to
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