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Adam Burrows | Range Ventures

Adam's biggest throughline is that how a VC behaves during the fundraising process is exactly how they will behave as a partner for the next decade. He is unusually direct about this, encouraging founders to treat the diligence phase as a mutual interview and to do back-channel reference checks on investors just as VCs do on founders. He gives a sharp breakdown of the VC landscape too, suggesting that roughly 20% of VCs are genuinely valuable, 20% are actually harmful to your company, and 60% do little more than write a check. Knowing which bucket your investor falls into before you close is one of the most important decisions a first-time founder can make. On the pitch deck and first meeting front, Adam cuts through a lot of noise. He goes straight to the team slide, not to see a big roster, but to understand whether the people behind the company have the relevant experience and obsession to go the distance. He warns against hiding weak metrics, arguing that VCs will always assume the worst about the numbers you don't show. His advice: own your narrative, get out in front of your objections, and never let a VC discover a weakness before you do. Perhaps the most grounding piece of advice Adam gives is for founders who have just closed their round. He pushes back on the imposter syndrome that causes many founders to avoid asking their investors for help, reminding them that investors want to hear bad news early, there are no dumb questions, and it is the founder's job to put their investors to work. He closes with a candid note that might be the most memorable line of the episode: he would not invest in himself, because great founders are outliers who take moonshots, and that is genuinely rare.