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Venture investors don’t care about a startup’s current valuation. The wisest of them don’t haggle—they just write the check. If there’s a chance to hit a billion, it doesn’t matter whether the entry price is one million or two.
What excites an investor is the startup’s Wow-future, and its growth rate today is what makes that future believable.
On the opposite end of the spectrum stands the vulture capitalist. He buys a company under stress, cuts it into parts, and sells them off. There’s no talk of investing in the future at all. A vulture loves only the price-spread he can capture right now.
Funny thing: we tend to see people in the same two ways.
The temptation is to notice only what’s visible at the moment—someone’s troubled state and the current balance of “assets and liabilities.”
But unlike companies, every one of us holds a sleeping capacity for exponential growth. Some will wake up. Some, sadly, won’t.
And what serves as the alarm clock? A rare gaze from another that hits like this:
“Through who I am today, He/She sees who I can be, want to be, and will be.”
Yours sincerely,
-Alexander
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