Dont chase the highest valuation, Scot Chisholm CEO Highland & Haskill Creek - The Startup CEO SHOW

It's just too bad because there's a lot of awesome people in the community and frankly, I've been so lucky with my other investors. It was like one bad choice, which basically stemmed from, and I've been asked this quite a bit, well, why'd you let them into the company? Like, weren't there warning signs? You know what I mean? And, you know, there was two things. One is I chase valuation. You're never supposed to do that. And in retrospect, we're talking like $10 million. So that sounds like a lot when you're a seed and series A company. But when you're raising A Series C, $10 million, you know, is not that big of a deal. Like, you want clean terms versus that, that 10 million swing. Right. And I had other term sheets. It wasn't, we weren't in a pickle and they were from good firms. So, so that was, that was, that was on me. Right. We chased valuation.