VCs' Strange, Instinctual Need to Replace Founders http://t.co/xyMDpaoM
July 25, 2012
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VCs' Strange, Instinctual Need to Replace Founders
Venture capitalists exhibit some strange behaviors, but none is more bizarre than the near-inevitable scheming to remove a company's founder-CEO. Odder still is that these plans are often hatched just as the company begins to really perform. The process, instituted by a particular stripe of venture capitalist, represents the acme of "adult supervision" by the VC, a destroy-the-village-to-save-it moment of investor heroism.




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