“ There’s a widely held belief that VCs don’t sign NDAs. I haven’t found that to be true. Imagine if a VC said to their LP, ‘We didn’t invest in Google because Larry and Sergey wanted an NDA and we declined out of firm policy.’ That wouldn’t fly. ”
“ I never ever say that a specific provision is ‘standard’. Nothing is standard. You either need it or you don’t. Explain why you need it and most of the time you’ll get it or something like it as long as both sides really want to make a deal. ”
“ If you’re in a business with network effects, you probably want to get big fast, and that means you want to get outside investment… and you also want to take a lot of risks. ”
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