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20VC: Why The Future of AI Is Open Not Closed, Why We Are Years Away From AI Being Autonomous, Why AI Founders Do Not Need to Move to the Valley & Why Founders Should Not Meet Investors in Between Rounds with Clem Delangue @ Hugging Face

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

CHAPTER

The Joy of Building a Company

One thing that I wish I knew earlier is that it doesn't get easier. The way you raise isn't so much dictated by your stage and your rounds, but more dictated by the situation that you're in. You can have a series C that is going to be done in a week, very simple, very little work. And then you can have a pre-c that is a struggle that you're going to struggle for six months. It depends on the power relation between the two sides of the contract. A really big problem is entrepreneurs building companies for investors or in a way that they think investors want to see it.

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