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ANGEL: Upfront’s Mark Suster on the power of alignment, setting reality, and raising capital | E1683

This Week in Startups

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What the Fuck Are You Doing?

Venture capitalist John Defterios: You need to be right about the trend. Second, you need to beright about the timing. And third, you must back back the right team. He says WhatsApp was a winner in mobile game 1.0 and that he could go back and say, why didn't we win? It was a great team that we backed. We just didn't end up packing the winner.

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