This content was created by GHION.AI . This content was uploaded by GHION.AI . This is a YouTube video titled "Kathryn Gould: Getting Experienced, Independent Direction" from February 13, 2015, featuring a conversation between Kathryn Gould and another speaker discussing strategies for founders to attract experienced individuals to their boards, emphasizing the value of independent advice over venture capitalists.
How do you get the right. You talked about you want to get people with experience on your board. How do you get them? I mean, if you go to a venture capital firm these days, a lot of them are so bloated with, you know, people that are younger than you, you know, I mean, people that are just out of college and they're, they're getting. They're getting enormous responsibility. And there's always that former CEO sitting there somewhere in that firm. How do you get his or her attention? How do you get that expertise, that wisdom?
Well, I don't think you get it from a venture capital firm. I mean, occasionally you can find a venture capitalist who had a great operating experience, but even still, you want to counterbalance that. So I think you, as a founder of a company, you sort of make a list of the 20 guys you admire most in the business and cold call them or.
Cold text.
Them or whatever. Go make it happen, pick them out. And, you know, you'd be surprised. You find somebody who's, I don't know, in their late 30s, has had a successful startup, maybe they're still working at it. You'd be surprised how interesting it is for people like that to sit on a board, particularly if they're not on a board, so they don't have to be like professional board sitters. And it's great advice for you. And it's great kind of counterbalance to the venture capitalist because they're not always right. So it's nice to have a guy who's like, independent and good.
