Gian Seehra

In 2019, I led a £9m Seed Round. 
 
 It was the largest Seed Round in the UK that year. 
 
 Now... 
 
 You would expect the usual reasons why we invested so much: 
 
 1. A clear story 
 2. Special founders 
 3. A large opportunity 
 
 But there was also something else that was a big reason for why we invested. 
 
 What was it? 
 
 The founders were able to hire in some of the best people we had seen. 
 
 They had already built exactly what this company needed to. 
 
 They had extreme amounts of success doing it. 
 
 And now were willing to risk everything to join this tiny little start-up. 
 
 Funnily enough one of those exceptional hires ended up being the CEO! That’s how good their hiring was.
 
 At the end of the day, investors invest into teams. 
 
 And those teams are the people who are going to be the difference between a successful company or not. 
 
 So as a founder you have to show investors that you can, will and have hired the best of the best. 
 
 Because second-rate hires will never cut it. 
 
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 P.S.
 
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